Who is Victor Koch? Most frequently asked question

Lately, I’ve been getting more and more questions about my back, my progress, my education, and even my personal life. On average 100 letters about 15 concern this issue

At first I thought that people probably don’t want to use Google or Wikipedia/else, but then I got the idea that part of the audience just doesn’t use Google. With a high degree of probability, this is a type of user who was not born in the first wave of the Internet and for them the main resource is TikTok and Instagram.

For these and other reasons, I’ve compiled all of these sources (mostly in 3 languages) to answer questions and also tell a little more than 1 sentence about me. Undoubtedly, I could not collect all the references from all sources, as there were thousands of them for more than 15 years, but I chose only a small part of them. + Including those reference/opinions that criticize me. — is what it is.

I hope it’s effective, and if not, I think it’s time for me to make short videos.

Among other things, this description will help journalists, readers and others to use this short biography as a reference if you link to me or use my content.

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Victor Koch is a technologist, serial entrepreneur and investor. He started programming at the age of 7 and is still fascinated by technologies that can change the world and humanity. In addition to the main roles, he worked on Google products, and was also involved in more than a dozen startups around the world.

Education: Bachelor Degree of CS and Robotics + Master of ITCS

• CPO — RuRu, acquired by [NASDAQ:VEON]

• Founder/CEO — Slinky, acquired by [NASDAQ:SOHU] in 2013

• Co-Founder — Teleport Neural Photo Editor, acq-hired by [NASDAQ:SNAP] in 2018

• VP — Voximplant [2015–2017]

• Founder/CEO — Stickeroid, partial acquired by [KRX:035420] in 2019

• Founder/Chief Investment Officer — Koch Fund I [2017–2021]

Over the past 7 years, Victor has successfully closed more than 80 secondary PE transactions with the following names: Robinhood, Stripe, Toss, Redis, wilio, Xiaomi, iQiyi, PinDuoDuo, Tilray, Livongo, Agora, Bandwidth, Kuaishou Technology, DataRobot, Chime, TransferWise, Oatly, Hims, Wise, Kopi Kenangan, Coursera and etc.

References :

• Google’s Supposed Chromebook Pixel (And Its Touch Display) Stars In Leaked Video — TechCrunch 02.2013

• Meet Google’s New Chromebook Pixel — TechCrunch 03.2015

• Teleport’s neural networks let you try before you hair dye — TechCrunch 08.2017

• Having a bad hair day? This app can help — RBTH 08.2017

• Victor Koch thoughts on IT entrepreneurship and the loudest startup of the season — KJ.Media 07.2017

• Interview 2017 What is Teleport ?— KJ.Media 10.2017

• New platform. Hands-Rockets. What about Kim Karsdashian? — KJ.Media 12.2017

• Airbnb acquires last minute hotel booking service HotelTonight — 03.2019 + BlastingNews UK

• Victor Koch has posted a public apology — TheNextWeb 02.2013 + FastCompany + Cnews

• The curious case of Victor Koch — AndroidAuthority 02.2013 + GBM

• Victor Koch, contacted Sergey Brin — Mashable 08.2013 + TheVerge

• Tech Moguls Find a Fashion Champion in Ashton Kutcher — NYTimes 08.2011

• Chromebook Pixel Existence Still a Mystery — TomsHardware 02.2013 + 9to5google

• Run by a former Google engineer — ReadWrite 02.2013 + Ubergizmo + IBtimes

• Maker of Chromebook Pixel video: It’s real. But is he? — CNET 02.2013 + Neowin + RB

• Founder’s tips. Interview — HabrHabr 08.15

• Founder’s tips Part 2. Interview — HabrHabr 27.15

• I prefer strategic investment — Thirst 03.2017

• Hair coloring app breaks records in the App Store and Google Play — Vesti 08.2017

• Allowwonder Interview with Victor Koch — 03.2017

• Slinky: “GIF is not just a picture” — Opress 08.2015

• Played on the Nasdaq — Versia 06.2018

• Survivor Mistakes: Victor Koch on Idea Theft, Startup Money, and Billionaires — Serg Sichkar 04.2018

• Google erases the border — Gazeta 02.2013 + RB

• “You should try to do it even if you end up failing” — Apps4All 12.2017

• Interview with “Iron Man” from Siberia— TheMarfa 10.2016

• “If you do useful things, then the money will find you” — TrueInvestor 01.18

• Entrepreneur and programmer Victor Koch managed to create four startups and earn a name in the IT market — DP 11.2018 + More

• Interview with Victor Koch — PRToday 2014

• Less words, more stickers — MBGazeta — 03.2018

• TV Show — Change hair color in 10 seconds — TV Rain 08.2017 + Update

• Victor Koch created a service that conquers even the “stars” — r-bussiness 03.2019

• The application for changing hair color in photos blew up Runet — Vedomosti 08.2017 + Cosmopolitan + iPhones Portal

• Application of the day. Teleport photo processing service downloaded 1.5 million times in 10 days — Secretmag

• TopList is the best voting service in Runet — 08.2015

• WIRED Awake August 10: Computer malware has been encoded into DNA — Wired UK 2017

• The new site TopList has recently launched — md-eksperiment 07.2015 + GazetaDaily + Zhitomir + PlanetaDaily

• Why mobile startups are dying? VC 12.2017

• Stickeroid teamed up with Lomics and plans to integrate with Instagram after Giphy — Vesti 05.2018 +RoboGeek + RoboGeek 2

• Interview with Vic Koch. Generation 21 03.2016

• Interview 2018 — Startup Today

• Teleport is a new start — RBK + ITMO

• VR for X. Interview with Koch — VRmania 09.2016

• What is Bots? — 05.2016 + KievTimes

• Teleport catches on — RYB 08.2017 + TheVillage + WomanJournal + MarieClare + TJ + Inc

• Teleport raised $1m — Firrma 07.2017 + VentureNews + AppTractor

• Instagram is going crazy over the new Teleport app — SNC/Forbes + RoboGeek + Ain + ITC + TJ + Inc

• Teleport is a hair coloring app with 1.5 million downloads — ClickOrDie 08.2017 + Sostav + SecretMag

• Snap buys startup Teleport for $8M — Liga 12.2018 + TJ + Inc + VCTR + RMA + SU + TheBell

• “Before the popularity boom, it took us 7 months of hard work” — Apps4All 10.2017

• Telegram stickers with bazooka hands have become popular — Newstracker 12.2017 + Bloknot + KP

• Russians sent 1.1 million holiday stickers on March 8 in 12 hours — Strana Life 05.2021 + Newsler

• Victor Koch and George Levinson earned more than $10 million on a deal with Bandwidth shares — Rambler Finance 06.2018 + PrimNews + NIA + Mixnews + Rusjev + Firrma

• VC Interview 2018 +

• Victor Koch and Avner Mizrahi buy $50 million worth of Chinese shares — VC 07.2018 + Sputnik + KomInform + Euromag + BraNews

• Positive stickers is kool — 09.2018 Gorf + Victor Koch started Stickeroid + Steeland

• The winners of the GoTech contest were announced — in 12 nominations — 2018

• Snapchat reportedly buys Teleport’s technology, woos its best developers — EWDN 12.2018 + RBTH

• Hype brought $1 million in 10 days — Forbez KZ 06.2019 + More

• Cloud platform Stickeroid sells AI business to South Korea’s Naver — 12.2018 + Baidu News + Sohu + Zhidx + EWDN + 36kr + RB + ChinaCom

• How Neural Networks Help Scientists — ITMO 08.2017

• Stickeroid Just launched new features — Php guru 02.2019

• Sold technologies in Snap and gained popularity on the “what kind of celebrity are you” features: who developed the Gradient app — 11.2019 + Kommersant + Mashable

• 10 years ago I sold my startup for $2.2M and got depressed — Smart-Lab 01.2023 + Pikabu + Dzen