Kirill Makharinsky
Entrepreneur, data analytics virtuoso, pianist, skier, artist, contrarian.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://younoodle.com |
| Industries: | Financial, Internet, Media, Real Estate |
| Skills: | Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Russian, SQL, Viral marketing |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Groups: | BASES, Berkeley Hackathon, Building a Business, California Clean Tech Open, CfEL at Cambridge, CleanTech Circle Forum, Club Entrepreneur, CUE, CUTEC, DrinkTank London, Enterprize 2009 , EO, Excitera Innovation Challenge 2008, Founders Fund, Global Entrepreneurship Week , Global Social Venture Competition, Harvard Media Ventures, HBS Entrepreneurship Club, Imperial Entrepreneurs, Inspiration Ventures, LSE Entrepreneurs, Oxford Entrepreneurs, Princeton Entrepreneurs Network, SEEDA Enterprisers, Seedcamp, SF Beta, Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], South Park Portfolio Competition, ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008, The SF JavaScript Meetup, Warwick Entrepreneurs, WebMission 09, Youniversity Ventures, Zenopy |
| Visas: | US: O-1 |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Getting press, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | Angel investing, Art, Fashion, Heli-skiing, Internet industry, music, Poker, Private Equity, Real Estate |
| Schools: | University of Oxford |
FEATURED STARTUP
YouNoodle
YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Kirill's is the co-founder of YouNoodle, the startup analytics company which has been used by 25,000 businesses and has a community of over 300,000 entrepreneurs. YouNoodle is funded by Peter Thiel, The Founders Fund, Max Levchin and several other investors; and has been featured in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, The UK Telegraph, BBC World News and NPR.
Prior to YouNoodle, Kirill managed analytics and metrics at Slide, the world's leading community-driven entertainment company entertainment company. Before that he held the #1 Graduate in the UK award based on his work while at Oxford University.
Kirill was also in the founding team and a President of Oxford Entrepreneurs (the largest student enterprise club in Europe) and graduated from Oxford University with a double first in Applied Mathematics.
Growing up, Kirill also once wanted to be (in order) a pianist, tennis player, artist, poker player and skier; all of which (for now) have been consigned to his spare time category.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | YouNoodle, Inc. |
| Position: | Co-founder |
| Time period: | September 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Media partnerships and business development. Built the Startup Predictor model. Created and manage partnerships with leading media properties including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, UK Telegraph, San Francisco Chronicle, Techcrunch and Venturebeat. |
| Employer: | Slide, Inc. |
| Position: | Data and Analytics |
| Time period: | July 2006 - September 2007 |
| Description: | Product analytics and data management; virality analysis; data insight; data infrastructure, product analysis, product development, business development, financial modeling, product spec writing, mysql and excel coding, API distribution, product and logging QA. While I was at Slide we grew from under a million registered users to more than 150 million people interacting with our products every month. |
| Employer: | Global Equity Partners |
| Position: | New ventures analysis |
| Time period: | July 2005 - September 2005 |
| Description: | Analysis of the games of skill market; analysis of the betting platform market; analysis of games of skill web designer; financial modelling; investment decision presentations. |
| Employer: | Meinl Bank |
| Position: | Derivative Analyst |
| Time period: | July 2004 - September 2004 |
| Description: | Carried out Monte Carlo simulation to price equity options; categorised risk in highly structured interest rate products; carried out Value at Risk analysis. |
| Employer: | Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Position: | President and founding team member |
| Time period: | January 2004 - April 2006 |
| Description: | Headhunted and led a committee of 14 of 3-year old Society with already 3000 members; raised in excess of £150,000 from sponsors and founding patrons; organised tens of events each involving at least 200 students and entrepreneurs; made contact and successfully invited entrepreneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Dame Anita Roddick to speak to members for free; helped create replica societies at 3 other universities; co-ordinated the set up of and advised 5 student start-up companies that together had revenues in excess of £20,000 in their first year; secured PR coverage from The Times, The Economist, New York Times, Guardian. In 2004 the DTI highlighted OE as “one of the top three organisations in the UK for supporting innovation and enterprise”. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2003 - 2006 |
| Degree: | Mathematics, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
Kirill's Startups (4)
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Kirill is Following (111)
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youmeo.com
All your social spaces in one place. Mixed with the ultimate levels of privacy and engagement.
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trendessence
An online video ad network which provides powerful monetization tools for online video producers.
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NiLA Inc.
Nila is a revolutionary new lighting solution for the entertainment industry with unprecedented environmental benefits and performance standards. Nilas have been used on James Bond Quantum of Solace, Ron Howardâs Angels & Demons, by CNN, and Oprah.
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Christopher Lilholm
Danish, 25, Double Degree Master Student; M.Sc. MIB & M.Sc. EMIT(LS), ready to re-locate'
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Pepijn Meddens
Entrepreneur with his eyes always on new innovative ideas.
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