Jobs: Vadim Mamontov, founder and CEO RussiaDiscovery

What do you do in your work?

My working career began in the company "Garant" at the dawn of its existence. I graduated from university, and my faculty graduates have launched this project. Then, in the early 1990s, the private business It was still a rarity.

I came to the "Guarantor" sales manager. Then continued his career in the dealer section of the company: together with colleagues created a partnership network "Guarantor". After that stood out as an independent company - "Garant-Park".

Even then, we have been actively used technology: developed the first Internet and Intranet version of the system and more than ten years to develop and maintain it.

Parallel to this, we developed the print media monitoring project, which was later transformed into an electronic reader for the press and Parkreader books. Unfortunately, the project was canceled by the new owner in 2012.

RussiaDiscovery I created in 2005. For a long time he remained the only owner, while continuing to engage in IT-projects. But in 2014, he joined the company in the capacity of General Manager.

What is your occupation?

At school I liked math, so after receiving the certificate the choice was virtually predetermined by: Moscow State University, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. Disaccustomed there for five years, with a break for two years of service in the army.

With an incredible positive attitude towards their university life, which, in addition to the study, was filled with a large number of events, meetings, dating and socializing.

Entry diploma - "Mathematics" - for a long time determined the race of my work: all the projects were related to IT. Today's project is aimed at the development of active recreation in Russia and at first glance it seems to turn into a career, but IT education and experience to help bring this segment of the tourism industry a new standard business processes.

Very grateful to the company's Business Relations and its coach Vladimir and Ivan Gerasicheva Maurach for training "Context" and "The Power of Now." They helped take the path of consciousness, deal with their own priorities, to learn how to make a choice in favor of really important.

If we talk about business education, after graduating from university I have mastered the Executive MBA program at the Institute of Business and Business Administration. My supervisor was Tigran Harutyunyan, the author of the book "What do you do with the strategy?"Recently published by the publishing house" Mann, Ivanov and Ferber ". Of course, this coaching is very helpful in expanding the horizons of the projects that I do.

Where did your passion for travel?

Wanderlust infected me school physical education teacher. Every year we went with classmates at least one big summer and two or three winter travel.

After attending university in my environment suddenly I educated deficit ready for active recreation. But the passion is still there, and in 2000 realized a trip to Kamchatka. This peninsula is literally blew my impressions: volcanoes, geysers, rafting among the bears, night wandering the slopes of Tolbachik.

My dream is to get on a trip to Kamchatka with the whole family, taking with him his wife, graduate to a daughter and three sons, the youngest of whom still goes to kindergarten.

I went with an unfamiliar company and found a team that every year we began to discover new amazing place: Chukotka, North Kuriles, Putorana plateau, Karelia, Kola peninsula, the Gobi desert in Mongolia Norway.

Then find a tour operator who could organize a trip to the next point of our attraction, it was virtually impossible. Therefore, each was accompanied by a lot of preparatory work, from route planning and selection of equipment to the food layout. Realizing the lack of supply on the market of active tourism, in 2005, I decided to create a company that would help such teams, like ours, to pursue their dreams.

Inspires me when people I pull out of the city routine and go on a journey, back from him, saying: "Why do not you persuaded me to do it before? It was the best trip of my life! "

What should know and be able to a person working in your field?

Mandatory requirement - a preoccupation with recreational activities. Conduct interviews with potential employees RussiaDiscovery, I'm interested in what people choose vacation, where he is vacationing, weekend or Christmas holidays.

Not seeing the Northern Lights, is not standing still on the edge of the crater of the volcano, not floating on the river, it is difficult to inspire others to try it out.

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Strengths: curiosity, a desire to learn new things, to understand the usual or put it into question.

perfectionism ready to be attributed both to the strong and the weak sides. Because, on the one hand, the desire to create a perfect product that makes our offer so attractive to customers. On the other hand, to quote Prutkov, "is that zeal overcomes and reason."

It is important to stop at the point when your efforts to improve something still require a lot of time, but has almost no effect on the result.

How does your workplace?

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I use a laptop Samsung 900X3C with a diagonal of 13 inches. As a rule, he also accompanies me on trips. This laptop with me for four years, but until now copes with problems, despite the already neyuny neteplichnye age and conditions of travel. Also, almost always with me the phone and watch.

Work in the office makes it more comfortable to use a second monitor ─ NEC MultiSync LCD 2490WUXi2. He even older laptop, but still remains one of the best monitors for working with photos.

Use a computer at home Zen AiO Pro Z240IC. High resolution screen makes it a good tool for working with photos.

A few years ago, choosing a hardware and software ecosystem, focused on the combination of Windows + Google + Android. As a consequence, my mobile gadgets ─ a pure platform, not burdened shells manufacturers. Namely phone Nexus 6P and the Nexus 7 tablet. Small Format latter makes it easy to read and watch movies. In addition, it does not take up much space in your hand luggage.

Watches Suunto Ambit2 - an excellent combination for sports and travel. Always on hand, we can note the GPS-coordinates of the point where you are, get back on the passed route, see time of sunset and sunrise, anticipate weather change - and all this in addition to the traditional functions of sport hours.

For the experiments with a panoramic video that cool immerses clients in an atmosphere of travel, recently I started using the camera Samsung Gear 360 with the Samsung Galaxy S7 phone Edge and points Gear VR. While this is the most convenient way to quickly obtain fairly good photos and video at 360 degrees.

For backups and storage of data, especially photographs, I use a network drive Iomega StorCenter ix2-200. Audio ─ small desktop speaker system JBL.

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In addition to a whole bunch of messengers, for case management use Any.DO, sorting tasks on topics of importance and maturity.

Selecting the Google ecosystem determines the choice of browser, mail, calendar, and applications for working with documents. In addition to deep integration, Chrome has attracted more and easy migration: authorizing the browser on any device, I get a familiar environment to work with bookmarks, settings and other things.

Mobile integration in office business processes using the application "Bitriks24" through which automate the company.

• EReader ─ «Google Play Books."
• Podcast ─ Podcast Addict (favorite podcast ─ "balloon", the author's program of Boris Grebenshchikov for "Radio Russia" about the music and not only).
• Music ─ «Google Play Music", convenient and boundless service, able to prompt new and unexpected. During the year, I collect everything that coincided with my mood or make it, save a selection in the playlist, which is in accordance with the date called "Mood ver.2016».
• Of the programs for a photo application ─ Sun Seeker. This recent discovery, the application shows the trajectory of the sun and the smartphone screen determines the location for the shooting in front of a sunset or sunrise. Besides him, the more, of course, Prisma. I do not get tired of wondering how neural networks manage to elevate any photo.
• Of workouts for the brain - the service Lumosity. He playfully lets rock the five main cognitive areas of the brain: the reaction rate, memory, attention, flexibility, and problem solving.

Is there a place in your paper work?

Notepad only in two cases:

1. Writing theses at a meeting with partners.
2. Quick Fix emerging cases for transfer to electronic format and sorting.

What is in your bag?

During the workweek laptop usually goes with me. Besides him, there is a battery in a backpack for charging your phone, headset, notebook and pen.

The trip sometimes take a mobile with acoustics Ultimate Ears Boom ─ great sound when capacious battery and a good dust-proof and waterproof.

Useful things for outdoor-travel a huge amount, and their description is not exactly fit into the scope of this interview.

How do you organize your time?

Over the past two years, we restarted the company RussiaDiscovery and almost completely renewed team. Increased by the number of employees doubled, many colleagues have significantly expanded the range of its objectives. Of course, no delegation of authority, with simultaneous expansion of such rapid changes in areas of responsibility would have been impossible.

Make plans for three to five years, annual and short-term, with maturities of less than one year. For the administration and the tasks use a simplified version of GTD. To plan and use Any.do «Google Calendar."

The ascent usually early: 6: 30-7: 00. Then either training or commuting to work looking for some children to school.

The office is usually already in the 9: 00-9: 30. The most effective first half of the day, especially on days with workouts. They make the schedule much more energetic.

The day usually ends with reading: first, to three sons, then for himself.

How to pass the time in traffic jams?

Ebook Reader with books on the tablet, and podcasts on your phone. In the city, especially in traffic, well there are radio stations to teach English through the TuneIn service, preset in the car's media center.

In airplanes and airports added «Google Music", video through the service Okko or downloaded to your tablet.

For long-distance travel by car ─ podcasts, music from the Google, audiobook collection of transfer "model for the assembly".

What's your hobby?

I was lucky: My hobbies are photography and traveling ─ ─ coincide with my work.

Happiness - the word today. At that moment, when you do that you realize you are approaching to happiness, which is always in us regardless of the garbage from the past or fear of the future. While traveling in the wilderness the way to the power of the much shorter. Perhaps that is why I love them so.

What place sport occupies in your life?

By regular exercise I regained daughter, who three years ago, intending to lose a little weight to the outlet, invited me to take a morning jog. Reaching her goal, she has to train, and I ran on.

Initially engaged in an amateur format, then find a coach - bronze medalist of the Russian Championship marathon Michael Kulkova. He continued his training under his tutelage: through a web service received from Michael assignments and send back reports.

A year later, he ran a marathon. A year later ran ten kilometers in less than 40 minutes.

Without my sports performance could be safely divide in half. Jogging - the perfect time for meditation or, on the contrary, to think about the plans and actions.

Recently, it became more difficult to plan the preparation for long runs: do not always manage to combine training with travel. But over the past year I have had time to run in Salekhard, Perm, Naryan-Mar, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Norilsk and Sochi.

Layfhakerstvo by Vadim Mamontov

books

• Alain Bombard and Chai Blythe "Overboard on their own. incredible journey». This is a compelling example of expanding the scope and determination of a man alone crossed the Atlantic in a conventional lifeboat without supplies of food and water. Proof that in a situation of one-on-one with the ocean for a man is much worse than his psychological framework, not hunger and thirst.
• Jim Rogers "Make your children succeed. Parenting advice from one of the most influential investors in the world». Book-and an extravagant farewell successful businessman and traveler.
• Colin Campbell "The Chinese study. Results of a large-scale study on the relationship of nutrition and health». This book convinced me to give up eating meat and fish with absolutely rational point of view, and David Yan book "Now, I eat whatever I want"Arguments and added a few more items to the list of junk foods.

Movies and Series

«Into the Wild"- a film about the choice of the path and the journey to the wonderful music of Eddie Vedder.

Documentaries: "House. travel story"Yan Arthus-Bertrand and"earthlings"Shaun Monson. Also added emotional arguments in favor of vegetarianism.

TV series "House of cards"- a vivid example of how small the lie becomes a greater evil, calling the policy. Story about loneliness leader of purposefulness and the necessity to go forward, when the whole world is against you.

podcast

As already mentioned, "Balloon». Boris Grebenshchikov says about the music and allows you to do unexpected musical discoveries.

What is your life motto?

People have forgotten this simple truth: in your latest suit will not be pockets.

Viggo Mortensen

Choosing his life's work focuses not on what you have, and how you will feel. Any tangible thing will bring joy to you in the best case for a few hours. The thing that you are going to do will be measured in months and years, and that is what will determine whether you will be happy.

Try as many different classes and dedicate yourself to that finds an echo in your soul. The fastest way to success and happiness - find what you like best, and to devote himself to his favorite occupation. Even if this work is not to become rich you are, you will be rich soul. In a word, happy. And happiness can not hang a price tag.