Semyon Dukach

I also like to spend time with my kids and my girlfriend Natasha, windsurf whenever possible, fly helicopters, and help out with high tech startups.  In addition I still run SMTP.com, sit on the board of Terrafugia, and dabble in biking, Argentine tango, and snowboarding. I also like poetry, pickles, good lawyers, and good timing. Sometimes I get a little local press.

In the distant past I founded, grown, and sold a software company called Fast Engines, co-founded Vert, and made a little money running a blackjack team at MIT which is the subject of this book.  Before all that I grew up in Moscow and Houston, did my undergrad at Columbia, played with virtual reality at IBM research, and got a degree from MIT for creating an early e-commerce system, way before it was cool.   My daughters Dagny, Miranda, and Zoe are cute, and really awesome in every way. My much younger son Elio lives in Chicago with his mother Nikki and sister Nina.   My cousin Alex writes songs, and my sister Inna is an opera singer who married a rock star.   People often see patterns where none exist.

One morning I blogged about the financial crisis.

I can be reached as semyon at-sign semyon.com.