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Ask Vasily Starostenko about his edge and he will not point to a single company on his résumé. He will point to a habit: reading, constantly, for decades. Physics at MIPT started it — you do not survive that curriculum without learning how to learn. But the habit outlived the degree. Through Tesla, Waymo, Uber, and Revolut, through founding companies and teaching online classes to thousands of students, the reading never stopped. It is not a hobby; it is infrastructure.

He reads the way operators read: with a pen, with skepticism, and with one question always open — how does this apply on Monday morning? A chapter on incentives becomes a pricing experiment. A history of an industry becomes a pattern to watch for in the next market. Reading, for him, is not escape from the work; it is the cheapest possible research department, open around the clock.

The habit compounds in a second direction, too: teaching. His online classes reach thousands of students, and every teacher knows the secret — you learn a subject twice, once when you study it and once when you have to explain it clearly. The reading feeds the teaching, the teaching pressure-tests the reading, and the students get the distilled version of twenty years of product leadership.

In a career that moved from equations to autonomous vehicles to global fintech, continuous learning was never optional — it was the whole strategy. Markets change, tools change, and the half-life of any specific skill keeps shrinking. The only durable advantage is the meta-skill: the ability to walk into an unfamiliar domain and get dangerous fast. That is what the reading habit buys, one book at a time. The library keeps growing, and so does the operator it built.

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