Sergey Bulaev
Palo Alto, CA
Sergey Bulaev
Palo Alto, CA
Started first internet project at 16. Created first company "Skript" (web development) at 21. Sold majority share of the company to the biggest client to make a transition to product company. Worked on a number of succesull and not unsuccessful web products.
In 2005 became interested in blogs. Started "Internet things" blog in Russian trying to use "web 2.0" hype. Project was selected as the russian blog of the year by society of russian internet professionals "Ezhe". By the end of the year blog was sold to to russian vc-fund. They wanted to employ it to support their future investments.
In 2009 founded Buffer Bay company to capitalize on russian content projects. Blogs Lifehacker.ru & Macradar.ru were used as the base. During 2012 number of Lifehacker.ru visitors had a massive 86% growth. At the moment they have 70-80k daily unique visits.
Came up with idea of creating iOS development department at Skript and became it's head. Shortly executed first iOS product using partnership with calend.ru, famous russian website about holidays with over 200k daily audience. It is russian only and named "Calendar of holidays".
In the end of 2010 was staying in the grocery store reading sms shopping list from the wife and suddenly noticed the problem of why so few people really use mobile shopping lists. The problem was complexity due to the big number of features. Came up with idea of really simple, cloud based mobile grocery list that people really want to use. By the autumn of 2012 that product named "Buy Me a Pie" became the leading mobile grocery list in the App Store.
In the beginning of 2013, having more then 2M installs, Buy Me a Pie was transformed to independent company. Main aim is to become the leader of mobile grocery list market while doing the product which people love & recommend to their friends. To make a mobile grocery list for those who don't like mobile grocery lists.