In 2013, the film "Startup" will be released. Its plot is based on the history of the Yandex company. Viewers will be able to see how a small initially project has grown to the level of an entire corporation.
Filming the film "Startup" about the Russian IT industry is directed by Roman Karimov, known for his previous film "Inadequate People". Dmitry Sobolev, who previously wrote the script for the film "The Island" by Pavel Lungin, is announced to be the scriptwriter of the film. The idea of making a film appeared at the forum “What can Russia give to the world”. The producer of the project, Irina Smolko, claims that the development of the Russian IT industry and the Yandex company, which began in the 1990s and continues to this day, was taken as the basis for the picture. Apparently, the film is expected to be a major success. Yandex management also provides filming support.
Nowadays, the topic of startups in movies is especially popular, and it owes to this picture of the creation of Facebook, known as "The Social Network." At the same time, earlier such a basis of the film was considered far from successful and was not in great demand among directors. The film "Pirates of Silicon Valley", dedicated to the founders of Microsoft and Apple, which was released in 1999, can be named as the most successful example of this.
Yandex is the largest Russian search engine launched in 1997 by CompTek. In 2000, Yandex began to function as a separate company. In May 2011, the management conducted an IPO, which allowed them to raise $ 1.3 billion. This initial public offering was the most successful since 2004, when Google managed to raise $ 1.67 billion.
Currently, in addition to a large Internet portal and search engine, Yandex consists of more than 30 services, including Yandex. Mail, Yandex. News, Yandex. Pogoda, Yandex. Maps, and payment system "Yandex. Money" and many others. According to the Alexa.com service, Yandex is ranked 1st in Russia in terms of traffic and 23rd in the world.
