Jobs: Andrew Khusid, CEO RealtimeBoard

What do you do in your work?

I'm the head of the service to work together RealtimeBoard.

He began his career in high school and tried a lot of things.

Starting work early, you get an excellent opportunity to understand what you like to do and what is not uniquely yours. The sooner you start to try yourself in different areas, so find your way faster.

I worked as a DJ and videographer at a children's camp, moonlighting Imposer layouts in my father's mini-printing house, a couple of months in the summer to sell advertising on the video screen in the center of the city. In this employment ended.

Learning from the first year, my friends and future partners founded a company engaged in software development - Vitamin Group.

It turned out to combine study and work - a great idea, because we literally went out in the afternoon with a lecture, the evening could apply that knowledge in business processes of their own company.

What is your occupation?

By education I am a manager. He graduated from the Perm branch of the Higher School of Economics with a degree in "Strategic Management". Then continued his studies in the master's Higher School of Economics on the subject "State and municipal management".

The choice of the university was informed. By the time of receipt, I realized that I am interested to build teams and manage projects. Looking back, I see that the choice of a specialty was correct - with the management today is connected literally my every day.

I still can not help learning. Only the format has changed: actively use subscriptions to key people in our industry. Many industry leaders in their digests make them interesting selection of articles the authors. Thus, selecting the desired profile of the people get the latest and relevant information first hand.

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

To ascribe a strong ability to work on the result, create ambitious close-knit team of smart people, desire and ability to see the details.

Among the weaknesses allocate periodic procrastination, Defocus, the desire to do several things at once, and inability to work in a fixed schedule.

How does your workplace?

My workplace reflects my approach to work - always start with a clean slate. This allows you to look at things in a new way, not be held hostage to current affairs. My table looks like this.

And here is our office in the center of Perm, on the banks of the Kama River.

I prefer to work on Apple's devices. I like their ecosystem. The main tool - MacBook Air 13 ". Read and watch videos on the iPad Air 2, the house stands 27 "iMac, chat messengers and calling with the iPhone 5.

For mail using Gmail. I use the Google Pack: "Drive", "Documents", "Calendar", "Photos". Also in use Trello, Dropbox, Stripe, Intercom and Freshdesk.

On the phone has a lot of different applications.

• Messengers: Slack, Telegram, Hangouts, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Viber, WhatsApp, Allo, Duo, Snapchat (for the last three studies).
• Social Networks: "VKontakte», Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Periscope.
• Organization of events: Meetup, Eventbrite.
• Card: "2GIS», Google, «Yandex», AppleMaps, Maps.me, «Underground».
• Taxi "Yandex», Uber, Wheely, Gett, TapTaxi.
• Travel: «Aeroflot», S7, Aviasales, Booking Now, Hotel Tonight, BlaBlaCar, Aeroexpress, Airbnb, PriorityPass.
• Food Delivery: Delivery Club and "Tanuki".

Is there a place in your paper work?

Paper seldom, only during the discussions and brainstorming sessions. After that, in any case, all the notes in the stand:

• Apple Notes (brief results for yourself).
• «Google Calendar" (if agreed on with the tasks deadlines).
• «Google Documents" (the new rules, lists of issues).
• RealtimeBoard (schemes, concepts, mayndmepy, brainstorming, mockups).

It is important that the records were made available to all participants in the process and on them it was possible to operate asynchronously.

How do you organize your time?

Plan mainly workloads. Personal is not much for them to do the check-lists.

With regard to work tasks, we use in the company, which involves tasks for the year and quarter system of setting targets Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

Then I the problem is decomposed by week. Weekly lists lead to «Google Docs." Appointments and meetings for the next couple of weeks I bring in «Google Calendar."

What's your daily routine?

I start work at 10:30 and finishes at midnight. I am an owl. In addition, a schedule is due to the fact that I work with colleagues, customers and partners in multiple time zones: from Perm to San Francisco.

I assort the morning mail, make phone calls. In the afternoon, undergoing major meetings and conferences. In the evening, I make out e-mail per day, read Slack, including all the feedback from the users of the day, as well as communicate with their foreign counterparts.

How to pass the time in traffic jams?

Occasionally someone or something forward. Prior to get by car in 10 minutes without traffic jams. Therefore, the time to switch is not much. But when issued a minute of downtime, leafing through Facebook or Instagram, look, what people lived that post. The guys from the professional circle of friends often publish interesting articles.

How do you relax?

Free time I try to spend with family and friends. We travel a lot, play team sports (football, basketball, volleyball), ride on the boards and skis. This allows you to switch between work tasks.

But the main hobby, which I do after work - it is... work, namely the search for opportunities to move forward.

Layfhakerstvo from Andrew Khusid

books

• «Purpose. The process of continuous improvement"Eliyahu Goldratt - about the production and evaluation of its effectiveness.
• «Russian management model"Alexander Prokhorov - about the historical background of Russia's specific management and retrospective approaches to management in Russia over the past 500 years.
• «delivering happiness"Tony Shay - about the focus on customers and their expectations ahead of the curve.

TV series

• «The Big Bang Theory».
• «Silicon valley».
• «The Crazies».

Video

Subscribe to some channels on YouTube, for example:

• SaaStr.
• 500startups.
• GoogleVentures.

Blogs

I read mostly Western: Hacker Newsletter, Growth Hackers, a16z, Hiten's SaaS Weekly, for Entrepeneurs, Intercom.

What is your life motto?

Life for me it is important to believe in what I'm doing. If you do not believe, I can not move further, promise to sell, think about it. I always try to ask themselves: "Do I believe myself to this idea?". I think this approach helps not to do too much in life.