February 9, 2010 at 12:49 The founder of "My Circle" became the curator of "Classmates"
The company Digital Sky Technologies, apparently, can not decide to whom to transfer control of the withering site "Odnoklassniki.ru". Recall that after the departure of Nikita Sherman, Mikhail Kiselev was appointed CEO. But now it became known that Ilya Shirokov ( shirokov ), known as the founder of the social network My Circle, became the curator of the project , the newspaper Vedomosti reports .
Shirokov’s position is unofficial, in profile on “My Circle”he did not contribute it. The information that Ilya helps to carry out the project is unofficial and received from two sources close to DST. According to them, Shirokov has been working in DST since the fall of 2009, and he has become seriously engaged in Odnoklassniki only recently. In the near future, it is possible that he will receive the same official status and will be appointed president of the company.
My Circle is one of the most successful startups in its industry. This social network for business people was created in 2005 on the model of Linkedin.com, and two years later it was bought by Yandex, and also hired the entire team of programmers. The transaction amount is estimated at $ 1.2-1.5 million. Shirokov worked at Yandex for only six months, after which he left to study at Stanford and work in the British private equity fund Warburg Pincus.
Shirokov’s position is unofficial, in profile on “My Circle”he did not contribute it. The information that Ilya helps to carry out the project is unofficial and received from two sources close to DST. According to them, Shirokov has been working in DST since the fall of 2009, and he has become seriously engaged in Odnoklassniki only recently. In the near future, it is possible that he will receive the same official status and will be appointed president of the company.
My Circle is one of the most successful startups in its industry. This social network for business people was created in 2005 on the model of Linkedin.com, and two years later it was bought by Yandex, and also hired the entire team of programmers. The transaction amount is estimated at $ 1.2-1.5 million. Shirokov worked at Yandex for only six months, after which he left to study at Stanford and work in the British private equity fund Warburg Pincus.