Jevgeni ‘JK’ Kabanov’s Musings

On technology, entrepreneurship, product management and life.

Here you’ll find posts on a variety of topics from me, Jevgeni Kabanov. Today I am the Chief Product Officer & Head of New Verticals of Bolt, the leading urban mobility company in Europe and Africa.

In this role I’m responsible for Product Management, Product Design as well as New Vertical strategy and incubation. As part of that we have analyzed dozens of potential businesses and launched Food Delivery, e-Scooters and Bolt for Business.

I’m an active angel investor looking for 10K-100K tickets in consumer space, B2B SaaS, hardware, deeptech, medtech and other big markets if the founding team is amazing. I’ve done 10+ investments including Montonio, Postoplan and Katana.

Previously, I created JRebel and co-founded ZeroTurnaround in 2007. Hired clever folk and together we scaled the company to 200+ employees and tens of millions in revenue. In 2017 we sold ZeroTurnaround to Rogue Wave Software. 

Long ago I was a software engineer, contributed to open source projects and started a few of my own. I was also a scientist, publishing multiple academic papers including my PhD thesis and co-authoring several patents.