You can support us by subscribing to / osetinskaya or making a one-time donation, including in rubles, here https://donate.osetinskaya.io Buy and exchange cryptocurrency with Savl: https://go.onelink.me/jRfm/RusskieNor... Choose to work with BUDU. Jobs from the issue: 1. Selectel: https://budu.jobs/vacancy/61599ec8-25... 2. Flowwow: https://budu.jobs/vacancy/6159a39f-7e... 3. Dataduck: https://budu.jobs/vacancy/6158542a-2e... 4. Sibur: http://budu.jobs/vacancy/615c0ab2-d6c... 5. RaiffeisenBank: https://budu.jobs/vacancy/5fa9a484-b1... 6. Kontur: http://budu.jobs/vacancy/6155b720-b93... Get an asset transfer and protection plan: https://clck.ru/XzHYv The career of Izhevsk programmer Alexander Skidanov began with a victory at the Ural Programming Olympiad, a failed interview at an internship at Microsoft and a billion-dollar startup in a small apartment. But when Alex decided to build his own company “because it’s fun,” his life became like the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley. Attempts to build a singularity, barbecues with investors, thousands of pages of rewritten code and millions of wasted investment money. What is Internet 3.0? Is it possible to attract investment without an idea? How to get into Y-Combinator with a dubious project? Why does everyone need blockchain, and why hasn’t it come into our everyday life yet? Our unique hero answers all these questions from Elizaveta Osetinskaya. His project NEAR Protocol was launched just a year ago, but has already attracted $33.7 million in investments (including from Andreessen Horowitz), and is fighting for the right to become the dominant blockchain platform on the market. The Ethereum “killer” has the same functionality, but is faster and easier to use. NEAR's marketing is also unusual: instead of global PR and war with competitors, they form a blockchain community, are friends with Vitalik Buterin, and record deep video analysis of technologies with industry leaders. Timestamps: 00:00 "Blockchain for Dummies": Why Bitcoin is Better than Yandex.Money 06:52 Why the Blockchain System Cannot Be Fooled 09:04 "For Many, This Is a Business Question": Why the World Needs Internet 3.0 14:04 "This Is the Goal": Where Modern Crypto Projects Want to Go 16:05 Programmers vs. Corporations, Influencers, and People Who "Don't Care" 23:07 Why TON Didn't Launch, and Ethereum and NEAR Can't Be Stopped 27:12 "Two Ordinary Guys from Izhevsk": How He Learned to Write Code and Believed in the Possibilities of Olympiads 29:50 How the Main ICPC Programming Competition Works 31:10 5 Years, 5 Hours a Day: How to Train to Get a Gold Medal 32:44 "At the Peak of Your Form": Winning Olympiads and Getting to Know Nikita Shamgunov 34:15 Failure of interview at Microsoft and Las Vegas, as the first impression of the USA 37:21 Own online game and the decision to leave the university and Izhevsk 38:56 How to safely store big money in cryptocurrency. Sponsor's question 42:30 Why did Bing lose to Google? 44:52 Four people and a startup in an apartment: how he decided to quit his job at a corporation 48:19 Two years and 20 square meters with his wife, who got a job at Google 49:25 Why MemSQL was developed, and what it became in the end 52:51 First startup: money, for “some idea” and hype on voice assistants 56:04 Y-Combinator manual: how to get into the main accelerator of the valley 1:01:48 Singularity in machine learning, recruiting a partner and leaving YC 1:08:38 “He wanted us to be his victory”: how he managed to find and choose the right investors for the singularity 1:13:30 “Extreme measures”: how he came to the idea of ​​NEAR Protocol 1:20:33 Why NEAR is better than Ethereum 1:21:55 How much does the work of a top coder cost, and how to find money for a blockchain project after the ICO era 1:25:39 How they figured out the blockchain in a month and invited investors to a barbecue 1:29:18 "Killer" and friend of Ethereum or marketing from "The Hunger Games" 1:33:34 Andreessen Horowitz: how to get money from the main venture capitalists of the valley, and where is the trap here 1:38:02 How much is the NEAR cryptocurrency worth, and where does the token get its price from? 1:43:44 Why are cryptocurrencies so volatile, and bitcoin so expensive? 1:45:41 Financial institutions' faith in blockchain, and who will win the battle of protocols 1:49:01 What a programmer who decided to become a CEO should be prepared for 1:52:10 Blitz Follow us on social networks: Instagram: / thebell_io Twitter: / ru_thebell Facebook: / thebell.io VKontakte: https://vk.com/thebell_io Telegram: https://t.me/thebell_io Subscribe to the channel to watch new releases first: https://www.youtube.com/c/RussiansAre...