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" After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru. "
Director
Position
Project
" All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market. "
Online
How
Enter
" At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral. "
Salaries
Neutral
Market
" E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market. "
Just
Other
Market
" Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job. "
Good
Impact
Woman
" I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership. "
People
Dark
Colors
" I can be more cold than people would like me to be. "
More
People
Cold
" I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West. "
Day
Successful
Think
" If you have drive and energy, everything is possible. "
You
Energy
Drive
" I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be. "
Thinking
American
Think
" I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough. "
I Am
Me
Mistakes
" It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise. "
Worry
Rules
Information
" My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself. "
Best
Focus
Job
" Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good. "
Good
Fantasy
Only
" Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight. "
Me
You
Fall
" Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer. "
Most
Shipping
Four
" Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur. "
Russia
Entrepreneur
Amazing
" Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture. "
People
Hard
Friendly
" The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply. "
Decision
Women
Key
" The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things. "
Company
Create
Learn
" The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products. "
Will
History
Help
" The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer. "
Opportunities
Group
Look
" The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you. "
Amazing
You
Problems
" When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'. "
World
Surprise
Progress
" When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear. "
Disappear
Your
Take
" Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping. "
Internet
You
People
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