# Andrey Khusid

> Andrey Khusid is the Russian-born, Amsterdam-based co-founder and CEO of Miro. He began with school-leaving videos and a Perm creative agency, turned an internal communication problem into RealtimeBoard in 2011, and grew the product into Miro, an AI-oriented collaboration workspace used by more than 100 million people. In September 2026, after fifteen years of building, he signed a definitive agreement for Bending Spoons to acquire Miro at a $1.355 billion enterprise value, subject to closing conditions.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Miro
- **Organizations:** Miro, RealtimeBoard, Vitamin Group, Projector, Multiivitamin, HSE Perm Business Incubator
- **From:** Perm, Russia
- **Nationality:** Russian
- **Education:** Master's program in State and Municipal Administration, HSE University - Perm
- **Known for:** Co-founded a collaboration product that reached more than 100 million people and more than 250,000 organizations., Built Miro to about $600 million in annual recurring revenue and nearly 4 million paying users by the 2026 acquisition agreement., Scaled Miro from roughly 200 to 1,800 employees in 18 months during 2020-2021.

## Career timeline

- **2004-2005** — Around the end of school, co-created a small business producing graduation videos; the group later developed the Vitamin creative agency.
- **2009** — Served as executive director of the Perm branch of the business association Delovaya Rossiya and began developing entrepreneurship programs.
- **2010** — Helped launch the HSE Perm Business Incubator after running the student entrepreneurship program Working Weekends.
- **2011** — Graduated from HSE University - Perm and co-founded RealtimeBoard with Oleg Shardin to put a collaborative whiteboard in the browser.
- **2013** — RealtimeBoard had reached about 100,000 users; the project won Demo Europe, and Khusid's creative work had also received Russian entrepreneurship recognition.
- **2018** — Published his account of the communication problem behind the product; Miro later raised a $25 million Series A that year.
- **2019** — RealtimeBoard rebranded as Miro, a name associated with artist Joan Miró and a broader visual-collaboration ambition.
- **2020** — Miro passed 10 million users as distributed work accelerated; its team more than doubled to nearly 700 people.
- **2021** — Miro named Amsterdam a co-headquarters; Khusid described himself as an Amsterdam resident inspired by the city's architecture and design.
- **2022** — Miro raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $17.5 billion valuation.
- **2023** — Miro passed 50 million users and described a combined product-led, marketing-led, and sales-led growth model.
- **2025** — Launched the AI Innovation Workspace; Khusid argued that AI's larger opportunity lies in teamwork rather than isolated individual productivity.
- **2026-03** — Announced Miro's agreement to acquire Reforge, bringing its learning platform and team into Miro.
- **2026-09** — Signed a definitive agreement for Bending Spoons to acquire Miro for $1.355 billion in enterprise value; closing was expected in Q4 2026 subject to approvals.

## Achievements

- Co-founded a collaboration product that reached more than 100 million people and more than 250,000 organizations.
- Built Miro to about $600 million in annual recurring revenue and nearly 4 million paying users by the 2026 acquisition agreement.
- Scaled Miro from roughly 200 to 1,800 employees in 18 months during 2020-2021.
- Helped establish visual collaboration as a software category and expanded Miro from a digital whiteboard into an AI innovation workspace.
- Won Demo Europe with RealtimeBoard in 2013.
- Won Russia's Young Creative Entrepreneur of the Year competition in 2011 for an earlier creative project.
- Created entrepreneurship programs and helped launch a business incubator at HSE University - Perm.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Miro signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Bending Spoons at a $1.355 billion enterprise value and approximately $1.79 billion equity value; the companies expected a Q4 2026 close subject to approvals.
- **2026-07** — In a McKinsey interview, Khusid described Miro's shift from digital whiteboard to AI-powered workflow platform and predicted broader 'maker' roles enabled by AI.
- **2026-05** — At Canvas 26, Miro announced agentic AI tools, Sidekicks, Flows, and connectors intended to bring people, context, and agents together on one canvas.
- **2026-03** — Khusid announced Miro's agreement to acquire Reforge and bring Brian Balfour and Tom Willerer into senior Miro roles.
- **2026-01** — Miro launched collaborative AI Workflows for enterprise customers.

## Links

- Website: https://miro.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khusid

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Last updated: 2026-09-26