Jobs: Maroussia Podlesnova, CEO RusBase
Workplaces / / December 27, 2019
The experience of talking with different people within the framework of this column I is not too big, but so far it is - the most lively and vivid interviews, in my opinion, for the last time.
Meet our guest today - Maroussia Podlesnova, founder and chief ideologue of the "Startup Bill ", which over time transformed into a playground of Russian start-ups and venture capital industry RusBase.
- Hi, Maroussia! We all ask - even if you know yourself - what do our guests in their work. So that you tell our readers what are you working
I - a real web-girl: girl, about which she sang Zemfira - a girl who lives on the web. But there is, of course, not immediately. Official said, "Mom, I have Internet addiction," I could just a couple of years ago.
On the Internet I work since 2008. Since December 2010 and up to now I have led the project RusBase (Formerly known as the "Startup Afisha") - media and service platform for Russian start-ups and investors. Today, my team has 12 people. In 2012, we announced the investment attraction of the Black Ocean NY technology company. In general, a lot of things still to do online, but do not tell the same about it? :)
- What is your usual work place?
My workplace - where I am. More often than not - this is my table, which usually live in my old Air, a dog and a mug of coffee. But in general I - without an office person. I work and on the beaches of Phuket, and on the verandas suburbs. Many do not understand this my lifestyle. And I do not understand why I box, in which I will also open my laptop and also included in the web?! The very idea of the dress code, boundaries and rules, strict requirements and working hours horrifies me.
The team selected a I have the same: we all are distributed not only in Moscow but also across the globe, and we did not restrict it to the scale or plans. Once a week we are going to great planning meetings for 3-4 hours. Every day, we are all - to skype-call, but each in a comfortable space for themselves: someone is home, someone in coworking, or even in the office (there is special need :))).
- Something bizarre work of the "iron" is?
Actually I have another old BenQ, which has been running only on networks. But I sometimes use it for video editing: there stands Pinnacle Studio. But for a long time I have not played it :)
- And generally what you use? Laptop, router ...
Because my work as a whole on the internet, it's all I need: this is my 11th MacBook Air (which is time to change) and the router (the easiest DLink). Essentially like 11-inch monitor to me it was convenient to travel with a laptop in the city and it was not hard. In general, he never suffered from - according to others - the small screen.
With the memory of the Air it all very sad: only 64GB and I am from this, believe me, I suffer constantly. Save hard disks and removable Dropbox. Hard removable disk on my 400GB, old. There I store all photos and music and some old unneeded archive.
- Mobile phone (let me guess) production probably Apple: Part of our audience already hates edition because we have very few guests, fans of "green robot" :)
Since 2010, I went to the Nokia into the world of Steve Jobs and never came back :) I have a simple iPhone fifth, beaten and already with a removable glass. At 32GB, which has also come to an end. Come sixth - will be the sixth.
I do not even know how to answer the "why this model", it's like 'why do your hands? " iPhone - this is some part of me. Integral. Again, I really like the synchronicity with my Air: iMessage I write almost everything from a laptop. Notes are the same. In general, well, somehow it is all mine, dear :)
- Let's talk about the program more ...
# Menyaposadyatzapiratstvo?
Honestly, I do not remember who and how and when I installed the OS, and I buy it or not. Now I have a Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.4). Accordingly, I try to update as soon as immediately. But not even myself, and usually ask someone to put me. Office really worth from the MS, not native Numbers and others. Somehow it happened because from the very beginning.
The browser only use Chrome (better yet to find anything). Oddly enough, Safari have very tupit. About Mozilla generally silent, only use for the layout of the test. At the same time a day consistently open all three browsers.
Again, that may be strange, check email through a browser, and do not use the native Mail: he somehow I did not go. Email I just utterly structured, and I do a special approach to its raking. In fact my mail - it's my manager, tasks and my notebook. Inbox - always empty: in this folder are the letters that must be answered "right now" or that sufficiently answers "yes / no". If the email requires work - and there are 80% - in the Drafts and remove the label "Inbox". Drafts If greater than 30, then # umenyanachinaetsyaisterika
Although today showed ann $ 2 - AirMail. You will need to try :)
Actively use the Calendar and Google Drive - I am the strongest adept guglovyh services, so nothing eplovskih not used to structure time and data.
Made a couple of screenshots: LaunchPad on the screen can be seen most popular programs: Cloud, Dropbox, Photoshop, Image Capture. This - the four leaders, not including the Microsoft Corporation Office.
Cloud I use for screenshots in the work related with the management of the development, Dropbox serves as a repository for all public documents Team and Image Capture helps merging photos with the iPhone safely: see the iPhone as a USB flash drive and I do not use iPhoto :) More here good thing: https://droplr.com/
I do not know whether you want to admit it, but even I can not make friends with Evernote: I do not understand why you need it... I have to have all my drafts in Gmail :)
The coolest thing - it StrongVPN. Since I often work and am in zones publicly available WiFi, then use them for their own protection.
In my taskbar is also prioritized in Chrome: mail and calendar, all statistics trackers, social network, admin, comparison time zones (because they often live in other time zones), and even there is a place for sports: it is - a reference to training to YouTube (well I should be form).
- How to read the mail? Well messengers also interested in
About mail I wrote above. This - the most important tool of interaction with the world. All are well-placed in folders and labels, as well as filters, collecting accounts from other boxes. Still very sad about the closing Labs in Gmail, there are a lot of cool was :)
Mail I can not be closed at all ever. I read almost all of her 24 hours a day. For me off - it is when I do not check my email more than 12 hours. During the night of 1-2 nights 30-40 letters come before 7-8am. 5-7 pieces of spam. Half of the links to the tracker, and the rest - in the case of letters.
Of messengers I recognize only Skype. Although he was to fail in the past six months as an inanimate, not just me. In Gtalk rarely write. Well, Facebook still keep to the background. Invisibility is almost never include: I always online. I often even talking on Skype, rather than writing.
- Desk is clean or covered in labels?
I always carefully approach the selection of artwork on the desktop. And I always have it clean and cleaned: all Daddy documents. I - a terrible akkuratist and perfectionist: why me, and in the closet, in the kitchen, and in the laptop all laid out on shelves. Without garbage: I even crude basket annoying :)
If the design, I shake all the wallpaper here - http://www.goodfon.ru/ - is not advertising, but just I all of Section Minimalism take out :)
- Gadgets and services - all e-mail. Is there a place in your paper work?
Recently I began to use paper. I used up three notebook: usually make notes in meetings, and then it is all transferred to the electronic world.
Still I am using the A4 when the designer draw mockups of the new site: I can not do otherwise. Only pencils and paper. He then makes the layout of my product. It'll soon be the new Russian version of our will, drawn on paper and realized the designer on the web.
I love to draw and use napkins institutions. This, for example, pleasant ", Jean-Jacques": there instead tablecloths A3 sheets and pencils. Dream... :)
And always I draw when talking on the phone. it #musthave
- Marusya, thank you for a good story and a lot of details. And finally, a traditional question: Is there a dream configuration?
When I was very tired, I always dream weekend "simple Soviet" person who does not have gadgets and mail. Getting on vacation, the first thing I'm looking for - this is wifi. Therefore it is difficult because the dream of a configuration.
On the one hand, very much like to be away from all this electronic world and to engage in farm (not kidding at all), but somewhere not in Russia, but in the warm Italy, for example.
At the same time as I was - and without the Internet?! It's impossible!
In general, bad dream. You need to set goals. Dreams - is something completely unrealizable. And why do we need such an unreal, as if living in a world of ones and zeros? :)