Arkady Volozh
Arkady Volozh is a Russian-born technology entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded Yandex in 1997 and served as its CEO for over two decades, building it into Russia's largest technology company with a peak market capitalization of approximately $30 billion. He is currently the founder and CEO of Nebius Group, an Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure company formed in 2024 from the non-Russian assets of Yandex, which provides cloud computing infrastructure for AI developers. He holds Maltese and Israeli citizenship and has a net worth estimated at several billion dollars according to Forbes.
“Matt Weigand's $150M PIPE into Nebius — made before it was a consensus name — is now up 10–13X.”
“Nebius reported Q1 2026 revenue of $399M (up ~684% YoY), has signed ~$46B in multi-year capacity contracts (including a ~$27B Meta deal and ~$17B Microsoft deal)”
“Matt Weigand noted he tried to buy Arkady's 30% stake in ClickHouse, which Arkady "rightfully refused to do," leading to the relationship that eventually produced the Nebius investment.”
Source→“Next-generation AI hyperscaler founded by Arkady — who previously built Yandex to a ~$30 billion market cap.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.