The founder of "My Circle" became the curator of "Odnoklassniki"

The company Digital Sky Technologies, apparently, can not decide who will transfer control fading site Odnoklassniki.ru. Recall that after the departure of Nikita Sherman, Mikhail Kiselev was appointed general director. But now it has become known that Ilya Shirokov ( shirokov ), known as the founder of the My Circle social network, became the curator of the project, the Vedomosti newspaper reports .

Position at Shirokov unofficial, in profile on the "My Circle" he did not make it. The information that Ilya helps with the project is informal and obtained from two sources close to DST. According to their information, Shirokov has been working in DST since the fall of 2009, and “Classmates” became seriously engaged only recently. In the near future it is possible that he will receive official status and will be appointed president of the company.

My Circle is one of the most successful startups in its industry. This social network for business people was created in 2005 on the model of Linkedin.com, and two years later Yandex bought it, and it also took the entire team of programmers to the staff. The amount of the transaction is estimated at $ 1.2-1.5 million. Shirokov worked for Yandex for only six months, after which he went to study at Stanford and work in the British private equity fund Warburg Pincus.