Biography
Silicon Valley - The world capital of IT technologies, where "born" HP, Apple, Facebook, Electronic Arts and other US corporations. Now she is densely populated by natives of the countries of the former USSR. Andrei Doronichev, Father Youtube Mobile, director of products in Google, only one of the creators. In April 2020, he became one of the main heroes of the film Yuri Dudya "How the IT-Capital of the World is arranged."Childhood and youth
About the personal life of Andrei Doronicheva is known to be much less than about his achievements in the IT-sphere. Information has to be collected on social networks and interviews.
So, from the tape "Instagram" it is known that the father of Youtube Mobile was born on July 8, 1982 in Moscow, the capital of Russia. Childhood and conscious youth passed in the Medvedkovo-Sleeping area in the northeast of the city. His parents are engineers who did not stand out. When Andrei Doronichev turned 13 years old, the financial situation in the family worsened. And suddenly he realized that he had knowledge that were useful to the business industry.
"I became a computer. This meant that you can go and set up a Windows to someone, earn 50 rubles, "said Andrei in an interview with The Bell.In 2005, the creator of the Youtube application graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics. A. N. Tikhonov. Judging by the information in Facebook, in 2011-2012, he also studied at the business school. Walter Haas at the University of Berkeley, California.
Personal life
Andrei Doronichev and his wife Tatiana began to meet in 2002, during the hike in the mountains of the Murmansk region. As the programmer wrote in "Instagram" under their overall happy photo:"Go friends, returned a couple; The best thing happened to me in life. "The wedding was played in 2005, and 3 weeks before Christmas of 2006, Andrei and Tatiana Doronichev became the parents of the firstborn, the daughter of Mary. On September 18, 2010, their second child, son Dmitry appeared in London. Andrei told that childbirth lasted more than a day, and the windows of the chamber went to Big Ben. In his "Instagram" even has a photo.
Now at the Mountain View School, California, the children of Andrei and Tatyana Doronichev, are preparing to become the same successful entrepreneurs as their parents. Maria, using knowledge from the lessons of the storytelling (from the English. Story - story, to Tell - to tell), scored a cat. And Dmitry on the pocket money bought Google, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon shares.
IT-business
The first experience in the IT-sphere of Andrei Doronicheva is associated with Komincom-Combelga, one of the first Internet providers in Russia. Then there was a private project TAPOK.RU. With this portal, each owner of push-button phones could update the ringtone or download a video clip with Crazy Frog.
Tapok.ru managed to monetize, and the pocket of Andrei heavily. In an interview with The Bell, the programmer told that at the age of 22-23 years received so much money that he could afford once a month to buy by car. His fleet consisted of three foreign cars - BMW, Mercedes and Lexus, the truth is used.
By 2004, Steve Jobs, one of the fathers of Apple, presented the flagship iPod Mini. Medvedkovo and in general, Moscow "Tools" for the implementation of such significant projects did not have, and then Doronichev decided to emigrate.
In early 2006, the Spouse Doronichevs with a 3-week child moved to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Because of the unsuccessful startup, they lost $ 100 thousand, and life turned into a nightmare. I had to eat sausage trimming to fit into a very stingy budget - 300 rubles per day.
One day, Andrei Doronichev read the book about Google - a corporation founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1996. Falling, he wrote a letter asking for work. By that time, Google did not create a single product for mobile phones, since the idea that the Internet can be worn with them, seemed wild. And Doronichev assured that the future for mobile phones, and their "filling" need to be developed.
The answer from Google arrived after 4 months later - he was taken to the position of Product Manager, which means "Product Director". Even now Andrei Doronichev considers that the best event happened in his biography:
"I think I was lucky. In any success there is a significant share of effort, a lot of lesions and desire from defeats do not give up, but continue, plus an element of luck. "Working with Google led him to Dublin, the capital of Ireland, and then to London, the heart of Great Britain. At the end of 2009, he entered the team, which developed mobile applications for only the "Android" appeared. Andrei entrusted Youtube.
"All praised cool projects: Google's search engine, Facebook. YouTube turned out to be no one, there is a video with dogs on a skateboard, "recalls Andrei Doronichev.But it is this resource that is full of entertainment content, and made a programmer from Russia a valuable employee of Google.
After the first 100 thousand downloads YouTube Mobile man treated all IT engineers in the bar. The team laughed - which will be when the number of downloads reach 1 million, and took the leader "On Weak": you will take us to the Hawaiian Islands.
"I had to take away," the programmer remembers with a smile.In December 2012, Andrei Doronichev with his family moved to Mountain View, California, closer to the Silicon Valley. The financial condition allowed to buy a 3-storey house for $ 2.5 million in a mortgage. Much more expensive repairs - the building of 1900 of the building survived many earthquakes and rot.
Now it is the headquarters of the cohousing project "Good Home". The top floor occupies Andrei Doronichev with his family, the second is surrendered to Russian-speaking start-ups, for example, Dmitry Dumik and Dmitry Matskevich, and travelers live on the lower floor - users of the site airbnb.
After YouTube Mobile, the entrepreneur focused on VR projects (Virtual Reality - from English. "Virtual Reality") Cardboard, Oculus Rift, Tilt Brush and HTC VIVE. And the latest his investment is "cloud" service for Stadia games and the educational portal U Skillz.
Andrei Doronichev now
Yuri Dudua's film, who came out on the Yutiub-channel "Thorough" on April 23, 2020, provided Andrei Doronichev and the Bagarin Capital investigator. This online space will allow starting "Pitch" (that is, to unwind) your ideas and find followers.
For the first time about the "place", Andrei Doronichev told in "Instagram" on May 13, 2020. The launch was expected in June.
The film Yuri Duda in principle made a businessman popular in Russia. Natalia Skeeva has already taken an interview for the Rain TV channel, and the Youtube Mobile Father's blog in "Instagram" is becoming increasingly visited every day. His expressions from the release of the silicon valley were divided into quotes.