Zynga founder invests in Russian online travel website

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time July 8 noon, Google's former employees Chergues Fagut (Serge faguet) and Kiril Makalinski (Kirill Makharinsky) will be in Russia to launch a new online travel site Ostrovok. Ostrovok will be online next week. The site is currently available from venture capital company Accel and General Catalyst, as well as renowned angel investor Pitt Hill (Peter Thiel), Mark Ping Golf (Mark Pincus) and Aiser Dessen (Esther Dyson $13 million trillion in investment.　　Of these, Ping An is the founder of Zynga, the upcoming social gaming company. Ostrovok was founded at the end of 2010, and Fagut and Makalinski are not novices. They graduated from Stanford University and Oxford University and worked for Google and slide.　　They created companies such as Tokbox, Younoodle and quid in Silicon Valley. Fagut says the reason he chose to launch Ostrovok in Russia is that it is not very competitive in Russia. "In Russia, there are some areas where there are no absolute leaders," he says. In other countries, the market capitalisation of some companies has reached $ billions of trillion. "(D-Gold)