Writing
Twenty-two posts I would still stand behind, kept here so they do not live only inside someone else's network. The English ones are published as written. The rest were written in Russian and translated.
- Closing Empy.ai
- Working hard, and hiding
- Thirty people and their first agent
- Three languages, three versions of me
- The AI coach that catches my patterns before they spread
- The perfect deck that raised nothing
- I learned to live in a way that avoids doing things directly
- Why I spent four years building a dream instead of a product
- Five investor red flags I missed
- What Draper actually taught me
- Pushy and fast is the best combination there is
- Pitching Empy with Empy
- Fourteen wrong co-founders
- Founder loneliness is its own species
- Why 99% of accelerators outside the US waste your time
- Empy is not about focus
- Three years of an early stage founder, in numbers
- I left for support and ended up in a garage
- I had the money and could not take a step
- Zero money, zero sales, zero product
- We sold air and called it the future
- How it started