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Maelle Gavet Quotes
French
-
Businesswoman
May 22, 1978
Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
Maelle Gavet
Amazing
Country
Entrepreneur
Russia
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
Maelle Gavet
Things
Something
Create
Company
Useful
Could
Goal
Learn
Where
If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
Maelle Gavet
You
Drive
Energy
Everything
Possible
I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
Maelle Gavet
Me
People
Like
More
Cold
I Can
Than
Would
E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
Maelle Gavet
Just
Russia
E-Commerce
Any
Applicable
Market
Other
At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
Maelle Gavet
Gender
Year
Every
Neutral
Salaries
Based
Market
Which
The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.
Maelle Gavet
Women
Equality
Decision
Who
Apply
Deficit
Department
Filters
Gender
Interview
Lay
Remove
Along
Biggest
Key
Leaders
Made
Our
Terms
Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
Maelle Gavet
Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.
Maelle Gavet
Up
Most
Online
Our
Accessory
Acquisition
Leading
Recent
Shipping
Shoe
Businesses
Four
Made
After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
Maelle Gavet
Director
Position
Project
After
Completed
Marketing
Offered
Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.
Maelle Gavet
Good
Me
You
Man
CEO
Mattered
To Be Honest
About
Ask
Being
Career
Everyone
Had
Honest
Impact
Job
Matter
Only
States
The Only Thing
Thing
United
United States
Were
Whether
While
Woman
Your
My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
Maelle Gavet
Best
Focus
Care
Rest
Current
Take Care
Advice
Anyone
Itself
Job
Take
Will
Would
Would-Be
Your
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
Maelle Gavet
Looking
Big
How
Online
Enter
Russian
Market
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
Maelle Gavet
You
People
Internet
Shopping
Chunk
Convert
Users
Big
Online
Who
Within
I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.
Maelle Gavet
Good
Me
You
Thinking
France
Missing
Syndrome
About
Actually
Always
American
Could
Country
Everything
Friends
General
I Think
Live
Means
Meet
Own
Tell
Them
Think
Whatever
Which
Wrong
Your
I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.
Maelle Gavet
Life
Future
People
I Am
Bright
Colors
Optimist
Ownership
Painted
I Believe The
Am
Believe
Dark
I Believe
I Think
See
Take
Think
Who
I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
Maelle Gavet
Me
I Am
Colleagues
Hide
Worried
Actually
Am
Because
Either
Enough
Hard
Make
Means
Mistakes
Right
Tell
Them
Trying
I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
Maelle Gavet
Experience
Day
Think
End Of The Day
Benchmark
Bringing
Golden
Other Countries
Russian
Western
Been
Cannot
Company
Countries
End
Far
Has-Been
I Think
Idea
Like
Other
Question
Successful
West
Without
The Priceline Group is a truly globally-scaled digital e-commerce Fortune 500 company operating world-class brands. I look forward to contributing to the Group by identifying new opportunities and operating synergies that enhance its already strong track record as a global digital pioneer.
Maelle Gavet
Look
New
Strong
Group
Brands
Contributing
Digital
Enhance
Fortune
Identifying
New Opportunities
Operating
Pioneer
Track Record
World-Class
E-Commerce
Company
Forward
Global
Opportunities
Record
Track
Truly
When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
Maelle Gavet
Business
Your
First
Online
Appeared
Disappear
Operations
Lot
Order
Take
Then
Would
When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
Maelle Gavet
World
Progress
Innovation
Dark
Ages
Balancing
Dark Ages
Data
Debate
Framed
Gatekeepers
Giants
Handful
Privacy
Stuck
Surprise
Tech
Versus
About
Against
Therefore
It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
Maelle Gavet
You
Safe
Your
Information
Acceptable
Data
Evidence
Facebook
Google
Likes
Others
Otherwise
Protect
Rules
Say
Simply
Sort
Us
Which
Worry
The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
Maelle Gavet
History
Business
Will
More
Forced
Legislation
Regulate
Self-Interest
Shown
The History Of
Companies
Help
Message
Often
Only
Out
Products
Sell
Shape
Themselves
Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet
Good
Only
Fantasy
Greater Good
Fundamentally
Incapable
Industries
Largely
Multiple
Proved
Repeated
Scandals
Across
Companies
Greater
That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
Maelle Gavet
Work
Me
You
People
Complicated
Mantra
Tells
Going
Guys
Happen
Keep
Less
More
Need
Say
Saying
Something
Team
Too
Use
Want
I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
Maelle Gavet
Survive
Want
Must
I Have Learned
Each Year
Holiday
To Survive
Each
Learned
Least
Once
Take
Year
A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.
Maelle Gavet
Daily
Great
Growth
Way
Aspects
Boom
Great Deal
Managing
Pushing
Russian
E-Commerce
Along
Deal
Development
Energy
Spent
While
There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
Maelle Gavet
Long
Peace
Room
Okay
Brief
Capitalize
Relaxation
Little
Moments
Those
Very
The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
Maelle Gavet
Work
Coffee
Should
Addicted
Russians
American
The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
Maelle Gavet
Me
Surprise
Delivery
Up
Additional
Network
Pickup
Points
Come
Idea
Natural
Consumers learn the value of being sure that what you want to buy is what you buy.
Maelle Gavet
You
Value
Want
Being
Consumers
Buy
Learn
Sure
The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
Maelle Gavet
Change
You
Vision
Problems
Fundamental
Because
Changed
Does
Figure
Get
How
Out
Still
While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.
Maelle Gavet
You
Business
Will
Magic
Approval
Cash
Garner
Headlines
Investment
Metric
Rounds
Stamp
True Worth
Accept
Almost
Always
Become
Both
How
How Much
Large
Main
Much
Number
Raise
True
While
Worth
Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.
Maelle Gavet
Business
Money
Moment
Problems
Business Model
Conceal
Customer
Discovery
Flaws
Helpful
Mode
Myriad
Solving
Also
Around
Clearly
Company
Market
Model
Often
Opportunities
Real
Risk
Should
Very
While
I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
Maelle Gavet
You
Business
Decision
Focus
Bankruptcy
Counting
Inevitably
Penny
Away
Bad
Every
I Can
Knowing
Lose
Matters
Really
Single
Tell
Your
Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
Maelle Gavet
You
Internet
Something
Up
Invest
Investors
Russian
Fact
Finally
Which
The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
Maelle Gavet
You
People
Money
Go
Aspirations
Consumers
Entrepreneurial
Doing
General
Huge
Market
Message
Need
Only
Say
Start
The Only Thing
Thing
Things
Would
Would-Be
Young
Young People
Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.
Maelle Gavet
People
Culture
Speak
Hard
Customers
Friendly
Nicely
Russians
Get
Just
Them
Very
The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
Maelle Gavet
You
Great
Amazing
Problems
Bubble
Ecosystem
Ends
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valley
About
Also
Around
Being
Guys
Kind
Lot
Miss
Problem
Talking
Things
Up
Which
White
I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
Maelle Gavet
People
Think
Country
Language
Adapt
Russia
Difficult
Here
I Think
Speak
Very
Well
There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.
Maelle Gavet
Always
Being
Missing
Fine
Fine Line
Wide
Between
Focused
Line
Many
Opportunities
Taking
Too
The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.
Maelle Gavet
Feel
Comfortable
Online
Very
Customers
Russian
Transactions
Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
Maelle Gavet
Good
Competition
Will
Need
Customers
Educate
Able
Because
Itself
From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
Maelle Gavet
People
Safe
Perspective
Beginning
Consumer
Russia
E-Commerce
Easy
Europe
Five
Happened
Happening
Now
Understand
Years
Years Ago
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