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A look inside the insanely successful life of Russian mathematician and shrewd businessman Eugene Kaspersky

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Eugene Kaspersky is the Russian entrepreneur behind the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab.

His company is known as a leader in the industry, frequently discovering important cybersecurity weaknesses.

But his Soviet upbringing and early business life inform the man he is today.

He's now worth over billion dollars and has quite a few stories to tell ...

Eugene Kaspersky was born in 1965 in the city of Novorossiysk, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

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At an early age he knew he liked math and all things technical.

By the age of 12 he was already studying advanced mathematics. His parents realized his talents early on, and had him take extracurricu Kaspersky Lab - Wikiwand XINOS