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Heads-Up With the Russian Government: How a Chess Prodigy Gambled Big and Won in Silicon Valley - Victoria Livschitz


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Episode 69 - Victoria Livschitz

Victoria Livschitz isn’t just a chess prodigy turned tech founder—she’s a high-stakes baller who built a billion-dollar cloud company before "cloud computing" was even a thing. Then? She had to negotiate with the Russian government to keep it. Yeah, you read that right.

She walked into America with $300 and a suitcase full of dirty diapers and walked out with an empire. And oh yeah—if she had discovered poker earlier, she says she never would’ve built her company. That’s how hooked she gets on strategy.

This episode is a MASTERCLASS in taking risks, betting big, and winning in life. You in?

Show Notes:
  • 00:00 Intro & Background
  • 4:26 Finding Poker Late in Life
  • 10:09 Chess to Escape The Soviet Union
  • 16:27 Life in…Cleveland?!
  • 21:14 Chess Entrepreneur & First ‘Real’ Job
  • 24:04 Mic Dropping At Ford
  • 28:51 Sun Microsystems & Silicon Valley
  • 31:11 Sleep When You’re Dead
  • 37:07 More Mic Drops in Tech (Inventing Everything!)
  • 41:33 Going On Her Own
  • 48:07 The Grid Dynamics Story & Weirdness of Life
  • 54:35 Divorce & CEO Struggles
  • 1:04:24 Some Crazy Stories
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