Yaroslav Maxymovych
Serial entrepreneur. PhD in Engineering. Two university degrees: Applied Mathematics and Economics. I was the first in Ukraine to sell a startup for $1M+.
TOP-2% by IQ · TOP-1% of ChatGPT users
Timeline
The computer era
When people were just selling computers — I was building a company. About 100 employees.
The internet era
When the internet arrived — we built more than 500 websites.
Web 2.0
A dozen projects. The biggest — an online auction.
Mobile apps
2Event — almost 100 mobile apps. The event-tech market leader in Ukraine.
The AI era
AI agents appeared only in December 2025. I dove in immediately. 500 hours — and a SaaS product from scratch, without a single programmer. The second project — in 30 hours. Because I figured it out. Now I teach companies to do the same.
How I got into AI
Over the last 20 years, I've benefited from almost every technological revolution. Except crypto.
Computers, the internet, Web 2.0, mobile apps — each wave gave me new businesses. And now — AI.
AI agents appeared only in December 2025. Not ChatGPT, which answers questions. Agents — you give them a task, and they go and do it. You can launch 10 copies. Or 50. And they work.
I dove in immediately. From 10 to 17.5 hours a day at the computer. I'm already badly burned out. But the adrenaline is off the charts from realizing how incredible this moment is.
My numbers for the first month
754 commits on GitHub in a month. 53,405 lines of code. About 5,000 programmer-hours by the old measure. That's from $50K to $150K — if you count developer salaries.
And all of this — without a single programmer. Without a single line of code written manually by me. I programmed in Ukrainian.
The first project — 500 hours to the "on the server and working" stage. The second project — in 30 hours. Because I figured it out.
Why I'm not a blogger
I've seen a million videos saying: here's this AI they came up with, and here's an even better one, and here's an even better one. This leads to FOMO and the urge to run somewhere. But on the other hand — you're like Buridan's donkey between two haystacks, unable to choose.
I was looking for someone advanced to talk to. Someone who would say clearly: this is how I do it. This may not be the perfect approach, but it works.
I had to do it myself. I partly figured it out. And my impression: ordinary people are unbelievably slow. And hopeless without AI.
About my approach
I've never worked as an employee. I launched more than 50 businesses. Made 10 profitable. Made 5 market leaders in their niches. Sold 4.
I've conducted about 3,000 job interviews. About 300 people have worked under my leadership. I've fired only 5 people in all that time. I try to bring everyone up.
My dopamine only works in Growth Hack mode. I see a market opportunity — come up with an implementation — make the first sales myself — find people — pass the baton.
All my achievements — thanks to the employees who do their work better than I do.
Publications in Forbes
28 families formed among employees. As long as they were still in sight — nobody got divorced.
I always act with extreme honesty. For more than 20 years now, I've lived with this phenomenon: nobody steals anything from me, and nothing gets lost.
I was a mentor at two accelerators. I studied at four.
One company is very painful for me (2Event). But I'm still holding on to it.