founder of Samokat
Rodion Shishkov is the cofounder of the express food delivery service Samokat. Shishkov is used to starting a new business every three to four years and immersing himself in the unexplored and unfamiliar. That was the case with several of his own businesses, that was the case at Yota, where he was in charge of innovation, and that was also the case at Russian Post, where he was called to transform the lumbering state machine. However, the steepest turn in Shishkov's life happened almost by accident, in 2017, when he made an app for business center tenants with a set of basic services on a dare. The startup later transformed into Samokat, the fastest-growing company in Russian food tech.