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The vice president of Mail.ru Group was fired because of the Prisma application
Mail.ru Group Vice President Yuri Gursky was fired because of his work on a third-party project - the Prisma application, Vedomosti writes, citing a source in the company.
According to Dmitry Sergeev, vice president of Mail.ru Group, Gursky was fired due to a conflict of interest. Gursky himself claims that he did not see the papers on dismissal and, in general, he himself was going to leave the company for a month.
According to a Vedomosti source, "there were several stories involving Gursky in third-party projects, but the story with the Prisma application was the last straw." One of the developers of the photo processing application is Alexey Moiseenkov, who was an employee of the Mail.ru Group, and Gursky advised the creators.
According to Gursky, he did not invest in Prism. RBC, citing a source, writes that he has a stake in the project.
A person familiar with Gursky says that today he wrote to the top managers of Mail.ru Group that he plans to quit. “I wrote that I thought and wanted to leave, because I was tired of living in Moscow without a family,” Gursky told Vedomosti. Sergeev says he has not seen the letter.
- The Prisma app was released on June 11th. With the help of neural networks, it can stylize photos like paintings by famous artists. Natives from Mail.ru and Yandex worked on the creation of the product. Almost immediately, Mail.ru bought a stake in the application (which one is unknown; according to RBC, it is significantly less than 25 percent). According to Moiseenkov, the app has already been downloaded 20 million times. *