Wang Ye didn't know much about Volozh, after all, in his "past life", Yandex wasn't a very famous company and he didn't even know the name of the company's founder.
It was only after he reviewed the data gathered by his Polar Bear Investment team that he started to understand a bit more about Volozh.
This man was definitely a technical genius!
Volozh was one of the first people in Russia to encounter computers, back in 1984 during the former Soviet era...
At that time, there were only a handful of computers in the entire Soviet Union!
And in the early 1990s, Volozh started a company focusing on search engine technology.
If we talk about the level of technology, it was definitely leading the world!
In 1997, Volozh co-founded Yandex, formally launching its Russian search service. This was one year ahead of Google.
By 2001, Yandex was the largest provider of Russian search services in Russia!