Runetology (106): Maxim Faldin, co-founder of Wikimart online hypermarket

Maxim Faldin - about the typological features of investors and entrepreneurs, about business education at Stanford, about the prospects of e-commerce in Russia, about the details of Wikimart's work, about the future of logistics in domestic online trading, as well as about whether a startup can be managed via Skype and is it realistic to build a "Russian Amazon".

Interview with a guest:

• Maxim Faldin: from restaurant business and bookkeeping automation to online retail.
• MBA at Stanford: what to do, how to study, how to use it wisely?
• Is it easy for an entrepreneur to become an investor? “There are investors who have come to dig in the sandbox with a scoop, but there are marines who, fully armed, march past it. I was closer to the first. "
• How did Wikimart solve the “chicken and egg problem”? “For you to have customers, you need stores, and for you to have stores, you need customers.”
• “In the future, we are claiming 20-30% of all online product retail in Russia.”
• Does Wikimart have direct competitors? “Offline stores are more of our competitors than Yandex.Market.”
• Wikimart in numbers: traffic, conversion, speed, staff.
• The fight against non-fulfillment of orders by online stores and other weaknesses of Russian e-commerce.

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