Igor Shoifot

Igor is a serial entrepreneur and investor (he invested in Wanelo, Wrike, Backblaze, ShareThis, Gild, Le Tote, ScentBird and many others) who started and ran several startups, including two (Fotki.com, one of the largest photo sites, and Microsoft WebTV’s Epsylon Games the largest games portal on MSN TV in late 90s/early 2000s) that reached millions of users and generated tens of millions of dollars in revenues, and one (vInternship) that he sold to Manhattan Institute. Igor has advised and consulted startups, banks, venture capital firms and Fortune 100 companies. His articles and interviews were published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Venture Beat, and many other publications. He is the chairman of the largest internet incubator in Ukraine, Happy Farm. Igor is an investor and shareholder in over 50 startups with combined valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars. He has taught at New York University, UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and lectured at Stanford and other leading schools on viral marketing, venture capital and entrepreneurship. Igor writes for Forbes and San Francisco Examiner, and has an MBA from Boston University, an MA from Central European University in Budapest and a PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences.