Three or four years ago I first saw Andrey in Dud’s episode about Silicon Valley, and I have been following his life and career ever since. Last year, while I was working on my startup GoFlow, we met in person — though so far only online.
By complete coincidence, in June 2026 I started thinking about how to change myself. I began reading Atomic Habits and even sketching out a framework that could later be turned into a product. And then one fine day I saw a post on Andrey’s channel: he had published “New Version” and it was already available to buy. I bought it immediately.
And what a strange way the world works! First, his ideas and his own path of transformation resonate closely with what I had been thinking about and had managed to arrive at myself, or through what I had read. Second, it turned out there was a very high chance I could have met Andrey in person back in 2013. Back then I joined Tinkoff — it was still called “Tinkoff Credit Systems” — to build a new mobile app. And the old app had been built by Andrey’s company, iDa Mobile. When I read in the book that he was the one who founded it, I got goosebumps. What a small and fascinating world! I hope that one day I will meet Andrey in person, and perhaps even work with him.
In short, the book is excellent, and I highly recommend it. It is written in an engaging way, reads easily, and helped me a great deal in finally getting off dead centre and moving towards a new version of myself.