Dima Kapranov

I build & scale products from idea to £160M ARR.

Head of Product with 9+ years owning strategy, P&L and product-led growth, while mentoring and leading cross-functional teams in start-ups & scale-ups.

LinkedIn — WhatsApp — s at dmkpr dot com

A couple of things

• Founding CEO & CPO at Outter, building plug-and-play AI co-pilots for SMBs.
• Co-founder of Hattl, an AI recruiting SaaS – acquired by 2BeLive in 2024.
• Founder of Product Crawl, the “zero-boring-talks” product community (200 members).
• Former Group Product Manager for MENA's leading ticketing (Made Formula 1, UN, Ministry of Culture, and other notable B2B customers happy).
• Led mobile app products at Samokat & Ozon, making the mobile the 2nd GMV channel.
• Collect vinyl soundtracks and shoot portraits when the laptop's shut.

Media takes

I pin here my favourite media appearances.

• "Speed matters more than polish. Feedback beats theory." – Dima Kapranov for Unite.ai
• "AI is not just about chatbots. It's so much more than that." – Dima Kapranov for Tech Funding News
• "Hattl has set a new standard for identifying skills, cultural fit, and growth potential in candidates." – Hattl and Dima Kapranov mentioned in Deal Lite

Some things I believe

Some of the thoughts and values that make me me.

• A sense of ownership is crucial. We spend over 100k hours (4160 days or 11 years) of pure time working, and you just can't do what you don't love. Love it or quit it.
• Your self and your time are your most valuable assets. Invest in who you are, what you know, what you can, what you've done and who knows you.
• Again, time is a valuable asset that you can't return. Don't waste it unless it's not an investment into an opportunity to make your time more valuable.
• What you've built and the people you helped are the only things that will left of you. Always care about who is around and what you bring to the world.
• Things we call the world are built by people who are not a bit smarter than us. We can change the world, and it is our duty to reshape it further.
• Speed is important. Again, time is the most valuable thing, and speed saves it.
• There's no magic pill or a winning blueprint, and shortcuts to success usually don't work. The universe will give you all your efforts back only if you have made any efforts.
• Your mind always tricks you. Learn the cognitive biases matrix by heart to resist.
• Laws of physics are your only limits. Other limits you set yourself by carrying beliefs which are neither true nor help you. We, as humans, can build, make and achieve everything we want.

Let's chat

Feel free to book a quick call. I'm always happy meeting new people.