Kirill Makharinsky is an internet entrepreneur. His work has been featured in The New York Times

The New York Times

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Inc.

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, The Daily Telegraph

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and BBC World News.

Makharinsky is the co-founder of Ostrovok, a travel site for Russian-speakers; and YouNoodle

YouNoodle

YouNoodle is a San Francisco-based company providing a networking website for small businesses. It has received particular attention for its "startup predictor", which aims to use mathematical models to predict the success of a new business based on information about its concept, finances, founders...

, a startup community which spawned Quid, a technology analytics company. Before this, Kirill was head of analytics at Slide.com

Slide.com

Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of...

, the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications.

Makharinsky achieved a 1st in Mathematics at Oxford University, and won Graduate of the Year (UK)

Graduate of the Year (UK)

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in 2006.

Kirill also attended Eton College.