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The Forbes magazine has published a list of 50 Russians who changed the world and became successful not only in Russia but at international market as well. Along with the most brilliant art and sports figures, the list contains names of scientists who achieved outstanding results in physics, mathematics and other exact disciplines and the founders of half a dozen IT companies. Venture fund investors are mentioned in the list as well. The story of Max Levchin who, despite being just 36, owns a considerable fortune earned while developing and promoting various Internet services, is among the most glaring examples of success. In 1998, Mr. Levchin and his partners founded Fieldlink, the world's best known electronic payment system, later renamed PayPal, Inc. The project having been purchased by eBay, Mr. Levchin launched another soon to become well-known project named Slide, a photo exchange service intended for social networks, which was later acquired by Google. The example of Mr. Levchin's success in an IT business abroad is no exception. The ABBYY FineReader text recognition system and the world-renowned Lingvo electronic dictionaries were developed by Russian entrepreneur David Yan. His compatriots also developed the Acronis software. Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov created various games for social networks. There were also others like them. What is worth noting is that the ages of the scientists Forbes named as the best vary depending on the fields they work in. While all those chemists, biologists and physicists are over 50, the Russian IT scientists named among the 10 rating the highest are way younger.
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Elena, I think that the web link to the source (the article in Forbes magazine) is more than welcome in this case. What do you think?
Victor, thank you for the useful comment. I didn't include link to Forbes in the article simply because it's in Russian, while the article is written in English.
If you are interested in the whole Forbes 50 - here is a link to the source -
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