Quick Facts:

• Born in Dnipro, Ukraine
• Arrived in Boston, MA in 2004 | Go Celtics!
• Graduated from Kansas State University (Major: Marketing; Member of Track & Field team)
• Rejected by Wharton in 2011 during the interview process.
• Lived in Cambridge/Boston, MA 2008-2014
• Live in San Francisco, CA, since 2014
• Interests: startups, technology, marketing, psychology, media, politics, and reading (what I read).

Books Everyone Should Read:

1. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
4. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman
5. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
6. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
7. The Grand Design by Hawking & Mlodinow
8. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
9. Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins