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February 20, 2008
An American Is The Blogging Czar of Russia
Although there have been no news to break on Russia's SUP-Fabrik, BusinessWeek profiled the firms' founder Andrew Paulson. SUP did make news late last year when it paid a rumored $30M for the blog platform LiveJournal from SixApart.
Paulson in his penthouse office with panoramic views in Moscow's Smolenskaya district.
The profile does fill in some grey area in the SUP story. The money behind the firm comes via Paulson's partner Russian banker Alexander Mamut. Also, its interesting that Paulson has never experienced business success. Rather he was a failed novelist and high fashion photographer before moving to Russia and falling into the local online publishing scene.
Forbes pegs Mamut's Fortune at just shy of $1B
Read - BusinessWeek
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