Andrew Ivanov: AI-native founder, operator and builder

1996

I was born in Moscow into a family of engineers.

2013

Started B.Sc. in Business Informatics at #1 program in Russia at 16. Focused on CS and startups.

HSE Business Informatics8.31 GPA · Top 20% of the class

2015

Joined a tiny doc-to-home company as first hire after founders. Little did I know it will raise $25M, build a digital health ecosystem, become one of the first legal telehealth providers and get acquired.

Growing with the company, I eventually led all digital products, managed 4 PMs and a 30-people org.

2019

I've been struggling with excess weight since my childhood, and startup life certainly made it worse.

After losing 30 kg by habits change, I've co-founded a nutrition coaching service to help those in need.

2020

Joined a cross-border marketplace with 400M+ users to lead a Growth team with focus on first purchase conversion and retention.

It allowed me to learn how things work at scale, but I still had passion for enterpreneurship, so I followed.

2021

Driven by values of openness and decentralization, we've built a tool that puts daily praise to work by building internal employee reputation profiles.

The further we've explored, the more we understood that it won't fullfill VC ambitions. So we've navigated a number of pivots with the same founding team.

2024

Joined an amazing visionary founder building the future of schooling as a sole product/tech person.

Helped to transition from zoom-school into an AI-powered tech company, and prepare product and operational model to get to self-sustainability.

2026

Went on sabbatical to explore how AI changes the way we build products.

Tinkered with a few things, including building an AI-powered cycling coaching app end to end, and launching it to first traction (top-25% of app benchmarks) via an agentic growth pipeline.