From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
There’s always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
I think Russia is a difficult country, and it’s very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don’t speak the language well. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it’s great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
Russians are not a very friendly people. It’s hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It’s just not in their culture. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the ‘Russian Internet’ into which you can invest. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West. Maelle Gavet Read Quote
