Mikhail Bragin

Founder of NetBird

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I know this document is not very readable in the PDF format, but I’d like to mention that the horizontal lines seperate the slides. Furthermore, everything below where it says note: is designated as speaker notes and not shown on the slides.

Outline

About Bragin
About NetBird
About my choice

Before NetBird

bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in Russia
while studying: opened online electronics store with friends
afterwards: worked in Software Development for about 10 years

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not much known about early childhood
studied at Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
sold company; moved to Brazil because of niche technology he wanted a job in

Starting NetBird

“I always had the goal of having more control of what I am doing and working” [^1]
founded Wiretrustee with Maycon Lopes
raised €1.1 million
- fun fact: Mario Götze was among the investors

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met Lopes during his time in Brazil around 2013
moved to Berlin in 2015 with Lopes joining him around 2020 which is when they founded Wiretrustee together

the wiretrustee idea: safely storing data on a small device at home like Google Drive or Dropbox and being able to access it remotely from anywhere; first prototype in Jan 2021 which was very well received and was going to be crowdfunded when the semiconductor crisis hit and production became impossible

then: netbird, which took the connecting aspect and the software from Wiretrustee, which was later renamed to NetBird; became Open Source → easily configurable corporate VPN

received funding 8 months ago

Why I chose this topic

seen the original Wiretrustee product
contributed to NetBird personally
it’s interesting to see “smaller” entrepreneurs

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talked to Bragin & Lopes personally on using NetBird at the company
I got offered a job

Entrepreneurs - Mikhail Bragin