Ilya Berdysh
Co-founder of mymeet.ai. I build AI products and write about what we learn along the way.
At mymeet, we turn online meetings into transcripts, summaries and action items. I've worked on the product full-time since 2024.
Before that, I built AI products at Samokat.tech and worked on education products at Akademika and Product University. I started out in sales and training.
Active projects
An AI assistant for online meetings. We turn conversations into transcripts, summaries and action items with owners. I'm a co-founder and have worked on it full-time since 2024.
Revenue: ≈$86K in 2024, ≈$0.77M in 2025, ≈$1.4M expected in 2026
Revenue: ≈$86K in 2024, ≈$0.77M in 2025, ≈$1.4M expected in 2026
In 2022 I translated Y Combinator's Startup School into Russian and ran a chat for Russian-speaking founders that grew past 1,500 members. The chat is still alive, though I'm no longer active there.
Talks
- Jun 2026AI Skills ConferenceAI agents at mymeet: a three-day bug fix now takes 15 minutes (in Russian)
- Sep 2025TechFoundersThree years of mymeet.ai and ten stories from the team
- Sep 2025Community Sprints AI bootcampUsing AI agents in business processes (in Russian)
- Jun 2025Epic AI Conferencemymeet's journey from prototype to SaaS (in Russian)
- Nov 2024T-Bank AI KitchenGuest speaker
- May 2024aicGenerative AI in design at Samokat.tech (in Russian)
- Mar 2024Epic AI ConferenceMolbert and AI image resizing
Interviews and podcasts
- Jun 2026AIM podcastVenture in Russia and growing in the AI assistant market (in Russian)
- Aug 2025Epic Growth podcastLeaving a job to start an AI company and the $1M ARR goal (in Russian)
- Jul 2024Red Barn podcastsThe art of launching AI startups (in Russian)
- Jun 2024MzchkHow to build a successful AI startup (in Russian)
Resume
With a description of the tasks, the results achieved and my reflection.
Building an AI assistant for meetings. I started with the product and team, and have worked on mymeet full-time since 2024. My work spans product development and growth, including experiments with AI in our own workflows.
Taught a master's-level course on monetising AI products, covering how they find customers and generate revenue.
Built generative AI products: the Molbert image editor, a copywriter for product listings, and NLP tools for customer support. Helped build the research and implementation team. Left in August 2024.
Worked on AI products and chatbots, coordinating development teams and writing instructions for language models.
Co-founded an AI reply tool for Twitter, LinkedIn and Product Hunt. Worked on the website, payments, onboarding and prompts. The project is now part of my archive.
Worked on an MVP connecting retailers with temporary staff: the website, Telegram bot, first users and customer acquisition.
Worked on venture analysis and the investment track of a startup accelerator. After the probation period, I chose to return to building products.
Worked on the website, purchase funnel and education products. Implemented an LMS, launched courses and newsletters, and researched the EdTech market for Yandex Practicum.
Helped graduates find jobs through HR interviews, portfolio development, vacancies and employer partnerships. Also supported students on the courses.
Worked in sales and public-speaking education: launching courses, working with corporate clients and implementing a CRM.
Started as a sales trainer, then led a sales team. Developed training materials for new staff and mentors.
Advising startups
With a description of the results, links to calculations and presentations
I help with the structuring of the company at an early stage and the creation of the MVP
- Held five supervised meetings with an entrepreneur.
- Led the project to a presentation to investors
- Reduced CAC by 2 times
- Retention during tracking grew by 40%
- Negotiated terms for a pilot project with Gazprom retail network, Utkonos, the vendor of 3000 retail network in Russia.
- Found a new b2b-customer segment: distributors of our end b2b-customers. Average distributor base = 100 IPs/LLPs.
- New USP: Convenient food with a mountain of benefits! Cooked in minutes and never spoiled again. Conversion to purchase 1.7% (was 1.2)
- Found tight-knit communities - HEA subscribers - ran ads on them and an audience of 35+
- Formulated hypotheses to reduce churn, put in development plan - implemented ready-made meal kits for user convenience.
Looking for the main sales channels and product-market fit with the team. Helping to bring the unit economy into the black. Started the process of advertising through bloggers, which gave an increase in sales in the New Year period.
Education
Extras:
- English Level: IELTS 6.5 ~ Intermediate - Upper-Intermediate
- Completed the Product University accelerator in the Product Management program. Here is the certificate
- Finished Mentor Academy, passed the practice with supervision and got the certificate
- Finished the course «VC Analyst» by Denis Kalyshkin, I2BF Ventures investment director.
- Bachelor's degree - Plekhanov Russian Economic University, Technological Machines and Equipment
- Master's Degree - Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Management and Social Entrepreneurship
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