Hey, so happy to e-meet you!

I'm Arsenii, a college student from Samara, a small town in the South of Russia. After the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I emigrated to Kazakhstan and lived there for a year applying to 17 universities in the US. Due to my lack of finances, I was rejected 16 times but after all got into Minerva University, the #1 most innovative university in the world!

In August 2023, I started my first semester in San Francisco studying Business and exploring California!
Entrepreneurship has always been my passion. So far, I've run two AI startups: a social network that helps users leave our "filter bubbles" and an investment app that allows college students to raise money for their tuition.

Among my hobbies, beatmaking is the one I can spend hours and entire days on!
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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As I'll stay in San-Francisco after my Couchsurfing experience, I'd like to explore California not from tourist's but local's prospective.
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Interests

• singing
• design
• photography
• politics
• music
• skateboarding
• business
• entrepreneurship
• biking
• ai
• startups
• workout
• style
• us history
• beatmaking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music!
· Rap: Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Tyler The Creator, A$AP Rocky, Denzel Curry, Pop Smoke, Lil Uzi Vert, Mac Miller, Frank Ocean, Post Malone, Lil Yachty, Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, Eminem
· Rock: My Chemical Romance, Scorpions, Nirvana, Green Day, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, Sabaton
· Mixed: The Prodigy, Moby, Bob Marley, Gorillaz, Stromae

Books!
· Fiction: Atlas Shrugged by A. Rend, The Night in Lisbon by E. M. Remarque, The Master and Margarita by M. Bulgakov, The Financier by T. Dreiser, Martin Eden by J. London, Empire V by V. Pelevin
· Non-fiction: The Prince by N. Machiavelli, The Black Swan by N. N. Taleb, Thinking Fast and Slow by D. Kahneman

Movies!
· Films: Don't Look Up, The Big Short, The Social Network, The Founder, Moneyball, Interstellar, Inception, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Interstate 60, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
· Serials: Sherlock, The Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones, The Umbrella Academy, Good Omens, Gravity Falls, Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders, The Durrells

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2022, I traveled in the Arctic for half a month and conquered the North Pole on a nuclear-powered icebreaker as a member of a scientific expedition

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love EVERYTHING about music!
So if you sing, play an instrument, or just wanna try to record a song, we can do it together in FL Studio.
Also, if only you're interested in the state of today's Russian society, I can explain it to you precisely from my perspective.
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Countries I’ve Visited

Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Kazakhstan, Russian Federation