Wearing casual trousers, a pullover and ruffled hair, surrounded by programmers, designers and freelancers half his age in the trendy WeWork coworking space in central Moscow, Alexander Galitsky wears his libertarian colors with comfort and conviction.
Over the last three decades, he has made his name and his fortune connecting people, money and services in spite of political and technological borders. For his work pioneering WiFi and virtual private networks (VPN) in the 1990s, Forbes magazine named him the most important person in the history of the Russian internet.
“If you ask me, I would say ‘kill borders’ — they don’t need to exist at all,” says Galitsky, pushing his closed notebook to the side as he warms to his topic.
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Finance, International, People, Venture / Private equity
