Maksimov is the third Russian businessman to become
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 10:43 am
The Moscow Exchange continues to see a surge in stock prices of software companies. Since the beginning of 2024, the share price of the holding company "Positive Group", which produces cybersecurity solutions, has grown by 43% to 2910 rubles (at evening trading on April 1). As a result, the market value of the package of 34.2 million shares owned by the company's founder Yuri Maksimov reached almost 100 billion rubles, or $1.08 billion at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Russia.
a dollar billionaire by making his fortune algeria whatsapp number database in software. Last week, Denis Frolov, the largest shareholder of the Astra Group, the developer of the Astra Linux operating system, also became a billionaire thanks to the growth of shares on the Moscow Exchange. Since 2015, the founder of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, has been a billionaire.
Earlier, two more Russian programmers, Sergey Dmitriev and Valentin Kipyatkov, became billionaires thanks to the Prague-based software developer JetBrains. In 2022, Dmitriev and Kipyatkov renounced their Russian citizenship.
Maksimov, 45, was born in the science town of Fryazino to a family of engineers from local enterprises focused on military-industrial orders. At school, he became interested in programming, and then entered the physics department of Moscow State University. In 1996, Maksimov got his first job at the Oktava company, which dealt with noise-measuring equipment. Literally over the summer, he wrote an analogue of an ERP system for the company, and with the fee he bought his first car - a rusty Zhiguli.
Meanwhile, Yuri's brother Dmitry Maksimov, who worked as a network security specialist at SBS-Agro Bank, wrote a vulnerability scanner called XSpider to help himself. During one of their "barbecue" meetings, the Maksimov brothers and their friend Evgeny Kireev decided to try selling cybersecurity software. Evgeny and Dmitry invested several tens of thousands of dollars in the project, which they received from selling the Aport search engine to Golden Telecom. The company they created was named Positive Technologies.
a dollar billionaire by making his fortune algeria whatsapp number database in software. Last week, Denis Frolov, the largest shareholder of the Astra Group, the developer of the Astra Linux operating system, also became a billionaire thanks to the growth of shares on the Moscow Exchange. Since 2015, the founder of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, has been a billionaire.
Earlier, two more Russian programmers, Sergey Dmitriev and Valentin Kipyatkov, became billionaires thanks to the Prague-based software developer JetBrains. In 2022, Dmitriev and Kipyatkov renounced their Russian citizenship.
Maksimov, 45, was born in the science town of Fryazino to a family of engineers from local enterprises focused on military-industrial orders. At school, he became interested in programming, and then entered the physics department of Moscow State University. In 1996, Maksimov got his first job at the Oktava company, which dealt with noise-measuring equipment. Literally over the summer, he wrote an analogue of an ERP system for the company, and with the fee he bought his first car - a rusty Zhiguli.
Meanwhile, Yuri's brother Dmitry Maksimov, who worked as a network security specialist at SBS-Agro Bank, wrote a vulnerability scanner called XSpider to help himself. During one of their "barbecue" meetings, the Maksimov brothers and their friend Evgeny Kireev decided to try selling cybersecurity software. Evgeny and Dmitry invested several tens of thousands of dollars in the project, which they received from selling the Aport search engine to Golden Telecom. The company they created was named Positive Technologies.