Kanobu

History

2015: Makhtiyev becomes the only owner of Kanobu

In December, 2015 it became known that the Rambler&Co holding and the game edition Kanobu will separate joint assets and will stop being partners, Vedomosti with reference to the sources writes. The founder of Kanobu of Gajah Makhtiyev confirmed information: "This process began, it will come to the end at the beginning of the next year".

"The decision that we leave actually was accepted in 2013. Practically right after Pyotr Zakharov's appointment the CEO of holding it became clear that we disaccord on development of the project" — Makhtiyev told Vedomosti, but did not disclose details of discrepancies [Zakharov left from R&co. in 2014]^[1].

Makhtiyev told Roem.ru that it will have media part of the project — the websites Kanobu.ru and Ag.ru — and the rights to the trademark. The holding will receive a service part of the company — the game epic.kanobu.ru and games.kanobu.ru portals. Makhtiyev specifies that subprojects will remain on former domains.

Earlier the edition looked for the investor, but it is not going to do now, Makhtiyev says Roem.ru. Now Makhtiyev will be the only owner of the edition.

One of readers of the message about the transaction on the website Roem.ru left the following comment:

Gajah's history, prenainteresneyshy experiment of bubble scheme which will definitely not be repeated the next 3−5 years. I as involved in one part of the transaction from AG can tell: the project with very non-original name a stone-scissors-paper was started on small investments of brothers of liberman anew, then slightly the capital Shenderovich from the kayt added edik, then suckers from Rambler from pashas rogozhiny purchased all this case for 3 million owners obkyshitsya + registered for Gajah of everyones koneft in the form of option obligations and an other hogwash. there passed 4 years, and the project did not earn money AG became rotten, the best specialists, Polyakov, Sultan, Yaropolk itd left. Rambler in every possible way tried to wring out Gajah's chetvertushka, as a result agreed to saw the company. Gajah's smilie says that in the company there is almost no nobody left so the server with cries. 3 million unik a month this big lies, audience to a kanob keep around 700 thousand a month. at the current stage the project it is possible to bury, without monetary injections he will not fly up on traffic and simply there is nothing will be to employ people and to generate content. interpret this news as the 11th chapter of the code of bankruptcy with a smile upon the face

2011: Rambler redeems Kanobu from Kite Ventures fund for $4.5 million

The Rambler holding redeemed a controlling stake in the Kanobu project from Kite Ventures fund in 2011 for the unnamed amount. Sources of Gazeta.ru said that the share cost $4.5 million.

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