Negen Evgeny Biography

In Grodno, he said that MSQRD overtook Facebook among the Russian mobile audience, about his random acquaintance with the creator of VKontakte Pavel Durov and what the authors of startups should not be afraid. The meeting of a young successful entrepreneur with students was held on Friday, May 6, at the Yanka Kupala, Grodno University and gathered more than a hundred people. The expected guest was presented to the public by the dean of the faculty of mathematics and computer science Elena Livak.

The same thing happened during the university, ”said Elena Livak. Eugene admitted that when his studies began at GRGU, he did not particularly chase the assessments and did not differ in significant results in his studies, but he devoted a lot of time to his own ideas. Everyone could ask his question. In particular, the audience was most worried about how the Masquerade was so quickly untwisted and received a stunning success.

Recall that in early March of this year it became known that the company -developer of the MSQRD application acquired Facebook. So the idea came up to do something funny and funny so that people could express their emotions not only in the form of standard smiles. I want this application to always remain free, although there are many options for its monetization, including paid masks, advertising, etc.

According to the businessman, MSQRD is now more popular among the Russian mobile audience than Facebook itself, which owns this application.

Eugene also admitted that among IT technologies he attributes himself more to designers than to programmers. Many were amused by the story of Evgeny’s acquaintance with Pavel Durov, the creator of the VKontakte network and Telegram messenger, at a conference in San Francisco. Most of all I wanted to talk to him about Telegram messenger, we talked almost in a friendly basis on this topic.

In fact, most successful people are very open and ready for new acquaintances. Maybe not on social networks, but in life for sure. No need to be afraid to approach the right person at the right time. Another mistake of many novice authors of startups - they are afraid that their idea will be stolen. In fact, they can get good advice and a good recommendation. Ideas are thousands, it is more difficult to bring them to the masses, ”Eugene frankly.

Then the projects became cooler and cooler, then some money began to appear, we began to invest in them. After they began to look for investors. Initially, I needed money to move to Minsk. For me, this was the first investment so that I could develop further. Parents helped this. Eugene began his career as a programmer at 14 years old. Then the hobby grew into various large developments, including Maesens.

Now Eugene lives in Minsk. In the near future he plans to leave for the UK, where he will work in the London office of Facebook. A selected mask is applied to the person’s face, which is displayed on the phone screen using a built -in video camera. The team created a project to participate in the startup competition in Minsk in 48 hours. The authors of the project, summer Evgeny Negen and Sergey Gonchar, studied at the University of Grodno at the faculty of mathematics and computer science.