
Sergey Ryzhikov
Co-founder of Bitrix and 1C-Bitrix which includes the CMS 1C-Bitrix: Site Management and the Bitrix24 service
Bitrix products help businesses around the world manage their processes. Bitrix takes over all of these tasks: website management, accounting, sales management, internal communications management. In a pandemic, during the widespread of remote working, Bitrix has taken on the challenge of time and offered new services and products to help companies organize their work online. Bitrix products have long been used around the world, and have even been localized into Malay and Hindi.
The company uses a principle of a flat structure. «Managers are not a position in the hierarchy, but a node of competence. We have simple and easy communication between people.» For Sergei, the most important thing about the team members is that they care about what they do and understand the purpose. The presence of the psychoanalyst on the staff demonstrates the level of care for employees.
In 2020, 1C-Bitrix was the part of Forbes’ ranking of the «20 most expensive companies on the Runet — 2020. Forbes’ estimate is $ 135 million. «Bitrix24.CRM» is the market leader — 46 percent of all Russian companies use the product.