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Andrew Yermilov, venture builder and growth operator, in a black blazer
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ANDREW YERMILOVDUBAI / GLOBAL

I BUILDCOMPANIESTHAT GROW.

Venture Builder/Growth Operator/AI-Native Executor

I take ideas from zero to market, build distribution systems around them and use AI to move faster than traditional teams.

MODE / BUILDSCROLL ↓
/PROOF

TALK IS CHEAP.SCALE ISN'T.

010+

YEARS BUILDING ONLINE

DIGITAL / PERFORMANCE / PRODUCT

02~0M

USERS

CONSUMER PRODUCT ENVIRONMENT

03~$0K

MONTHLY MEDIA MANDATE SCALE

INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE

04~$0K

PEAK MONTHLY REVENUE ENVIRONMENT

SUBSCRIPTION PRODUCT

050→1

PRODUCT LAUNCH EXPERIENCE

IDEA TO LIVE OPERATION

06MULTI

MARKET OPERATING EXPERIENCE

EU / US / MENA

FIGURES DESCRIBE OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS AND MANDATES ANDREW WORKED INSIDE. NAMES AND VERTICALS REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL.

/THE STACK

BUILD.GROW.AUTOMATE.

The advantage is not knowing more tools. It's being able to connect product, distribution and execution.

Ideas are cheap. Execution is the asset.
  • Opportunity evaluation
  • Positioning
  • Business models
  • Product definition
  • MVP thinking
  • Launch execution
  • UX
  • Vendors
  • Integrations
  • Monetisation
  • Cross-functional operations

IDEA → LIVE

/0→1

ZERO TO ONEIS WHERE ITGETS INTERESTING.

Mature companies optimize systems.

Early ventures have to invent them.

Why now?

Why this market?

What changed?

Is there distribution?

Can it make money?

I DON'T NEEDA PERFECT PLAYBOOK.

I need a market, a problem and room to execute.

/DISTRIBUTION

GREAT PRODUCTSSTILL NEEDATTENTION.

I've spent years learning what makes people stop, click, buy, stay and come back.

STAGE 01

Before you optimize CPM, earn the right to be noticed.

  • Hooks
  • Creative angles
  • Positioning
  • Content
  • Brand signal
  • Visual stopping power

ATTENTION → OFFER → ACQUISITION → CONVERSION → RETENTION → ECONOMICS

/PRINCIPLES

HOW IACTUALLY THINK.

/ 01/

DISTRIBUTIONSTARTS ON DAY ONE.

Launch strategy is part of product strategy, not something you add when the product is finished.

/ 02/

OFFER >AD PLATFORM.

A weak offer with perfect targeting is still a weak offer.

/ 03/

VALIDATEBEFORE YOU SCALE.

Test demand, message and economics before adding complexity.

/ 04/

SPEEDCOMPOUNDS.

Ten good experiments beat one perfect quarterly plan.

/ 05/

AUTOMATE REPETITION.NOT JUDGMENT.

AI should reduce execution time while increasing the amount of human thinking applied to the important decisions.

/ 06/

REVENUEIS FEEDBACK.

Attention feels good. Conversion tells you whether the market actually cares.

/ 07/

SCALE EXPOSESEVERYTHING.

Bad creative, weak economics and broken processes become very expensive when you add budget.

/DIAGNOSTICS

PICK A PROBLEM.I'LL SHOW YOUHOW I'D LOOK AT IT.

DIAGNOSTIC PATH / CAC ↑
  1. 01CREATIVE
  2. 02AUDIENCE
  3. 03OFFER
  4. 04FUNNEL
  5. 05MEASUREMENT
  6. 06RETENTION
  7. 07UNIT ECONOMICS

DON'T FIXTHE CAMPAIGNBEFORE YOU FINDTHE PROBLEM.

/LEVERAGE

AI ISN'TA FEATURE.IT'S LEVERAGE.

I use AI to reduce the distance between thinking and execution.

RESEARCHSTRATEGYCREATIVEPROTOTYPEBUILDANALYSEAUTOMATEITERATE
RESEARCH

HOURS→ MINUTES

Competitive mapping, market research and large-volume information synthesis become radically faster when AI is built into the operating process.

CREATIVE

3 IDEAS→ 30 HYPOTHESES

AI expands the creative search space before expensive production starts.

  • Concepts
  • Scripts
  • UGC angles
  • Images
  • Video
  • Copy
  • Iterations
PROTOTYPING

IDEA→ WORKING PRODUCT

Modern AI development tools allow non-trivial prototypes, internal tools and customer experiences to move from concept into reality at unprecedented speed.

AUTOMATION

STOP DOINGROBOT WORK.

If the decision is repetitive, structured and predictable, it should probably become a workflow.

  • LLM
  • API
  • MCP
  • CRM
  • DATA
  • AUTOMATION
  • OUTPUT
LLMS/LOVABLE/COMPOSIO/MCP/N8N/MAKE/APIS/GENERATIVE CREATIVE/

HUMANJUDGMENT.

MACHINEVELOCITY.

That's the combination.

/EXECUTION

I LIKEMESSYPROBLEMS.

New venture.

Broken acquisition.

Difficult unit economics.

Too many vendors.

Too little structure.

AI opportunity nobody has operationalized yet.

That's usually where the work gets interesting.

Profile portrait of Andrew Yermilov
OPERATOR / DXB

FINDINGTHE BOTTLENECK.

01

MAKINGTHE PLAN.

02

GETTINGHANDS DIRTY.

03

BUILDINGTHE SYSTEM.

04

MOVINGFAST.

05

MAKINGNUMBERS WORK.

06
/NEXT

WHAT'SNEXT?

I'm open to the right operating role, venture or partnership where growth, product and execution actually matter.

ROLES / MANDATES
VENTURE BUILDERHEAD OF GROWTHMARKETING DIRECTORGROWTH DIRECTORPRODUCT / GROWTHAI-NATIVE BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENTS
  • Early growth
  • New launches
  • International products
  • Consumer
  • Performance-driven businesses
  • Complex funnels
  • Subscription models
  • Technology-enabled ventures
  • AI-native companies
/LET'S BUILD

GOTSOMETHINGWORTHBUILDING?

Tell me about it.

HIRING FOR A SENIOR GROWTH / VENTURE ROLE?

DUBAI / GLOBAL

Andrew Yermilov, portrait