![]() Another one, in my opinion, was the rapidly changing device landscape, with phones and other mobile devices becoming people’s primary devices of choice. These decisions were needed to scale the service and business. As you can imagine, the sudden popularity of HideMyAss! led to a point where quick investment decisions had to be made in order to secure the service’s reliability. Q: What are some of the biggest obstacles that HMA has faced since it launched and what are your biggest obstacles now?Ī: I guess in the early stages, HMA’s biggest goal was just to promote growth. New connection protocols, new features, and possibly new partnerships should help us achieve this goal in the mid-term. Our current goal is to reclaim our spot as one of the top five VPNs on the market, but once we do that, we’d like to evolve our VPN service into a more comprehensive privacy solution. People expect more than just that - they need to know what your service is capable of and to understand exactly how you’re protecting their privacy. It is not enough to show off a donkey and think up a catchy slogan. Now you need to obey established rules regarding user acquisition set by a matured VPN market, and accept the cost associated with it. Right now there isn’t as much space for organic growth as there was before. There are different rules of engagement, far more competitors, and thus more challenges. He quickly discovered a huge number of people out there wanted exactly what he’d built, and this helped HMA become what it is now. It all started back in 2005, when Jack Cator decided to build a web proxy website as a way to get around his school’s firewall. Q: What were the main goals for HMA back when it first started? How would you compare them to the ones you have now?Ī: From what we know for certain, the main goal was to empower internet users with a simple tool that helped them unblock content they were forbidden to access. It was about bringing HMA back to where it should be from a brand and business perspective, and making it one of the top ten VPNs again. ![]() All of this is combined with a reasonable and sometimes unreasonable amount of business travel around the world. In the last fifteen years I’ve moved quite often - Dublin, Prague, Moscow, Berlin, and now back to Prague again. ![]() How and when did you become a part of the HMA story?Ī: I joined HMA in May of 2019 and virtually moved from Berlin to Prague. I like traveling and cooking, I collect coins and try to spend as much time as I can on genealogy. I mean, I used to, but now I’m streaming it all. No, I don’t have another wall full of MC cassettes and CDs. I know it all sounds strange, and the full list would be endless. From classic rock and Dire Straits to The Sisters of Mercy, The The, Uncle & Deadushki. Who knew when I started my collection that streaming would be right around the corner? And yes, I do enjoy Netflix and some other local streaming services. I have a wall where I keep around 400 DVDs, if you can imagine it. I love their atmosphere and I value true friendship. It’s a bit difficult to count my favorite movies.“Usual Suspects”, “Once Upon A Time in America”, “Goodfellas”, “Ronin” are among them. My favorite writer is Vladimir Nabokov, specifically his novels Invitation to a Beheading, Pale Fire, or his Memoirs written in Russian and English. So, that answers the part about briefs or boxers… I’m certainly a boxers’ guy.Īs for my favorite books, movies, and hobbies. This year we got a dog, a German boxer named ‘Bossman’. Q: Let’s start with an informal introduction - is there any information you’d like to share that has nothing to do with HMA? Like your favorite movies, books, and hobbies if you like BBQs, if you’re more of a boxers or briefs kind of guy.Ī: My name is Andrei, I’m in my late 40s, married, with a teenage son who’s almost as tall as I am. ![]() Introduction to the Commercial Director: Andrei Mochola And of course, there’s also their ass of a mascot, Jack. HMA has offices in three countries and our multinational team of energetic and passionate people represents dozens of nationalities, cultures, and speakers of countless languages. Offering 256-bit AES encrypted servers, 20 Gbps speeds, and a strict and transparent no-logging policy, HMA is one of the best, most user-friendly VPNs out there. After a few turbulent years, today HMA operates the largest proprietary VPN network on the planet - over 1,000 servers in 190 countries, with users being able to browse from over 290 locations worldwide. Following some serious growth in both size and popularity, HMA was acquired in 2015 by AVG Technologies, which then became part of Avast Software (a world-famous cybersecurity company from the Czech Republic) in 2016. HMA VPN (HideMyAss) is one of the oldest VPNs on the market, founded in 2005 by Jack Cator in the UK. ![]()
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