Vitalii Dodonov
Co-Founder & CTO (Head of Engineering) · Stan
Vitalii Dodonov co-founded Stan, the creator storefront platform whose 85,000 Creator-Entrepreneurs have earned more than $600M, and runs its engineering from Toronto.
Worth knowing
He has taken a product from zero to $30M ARR with a team of 30 and roughly 40% EBITDA margins on a single seed round, including the call at $1M ARR to scrap transaction fees for a flat monthly subscription. He ships fast, building Stan's AI content agent in 14 days. Founders weighing pricing models, capital-efficient growth or creator monetization should write.
Story
Vitalii grew up in Kolomna, near Moscow, and moved to Canada at 18 to study engineering, transferring to the University of Alberta in his second year. He started out as a data scientist at Deloitte, led development at Vhinny.com, then went to eBay as a senior software engineer on the Seller Hub backend. In 2020 he left to build Stan with John Hu. Away from the keyboard he has logged more than 800 skydiving jumps.
Highlights
- Co-founder & CTO, Stan (Find Community, Inc.), founded 2020
- $5M seed led by Forerunner Ventures, 2022, with Pear VC and Kevin Hartz
- Built Stanley, an AI content agent, shipped in 14 days and launched March 2026
- BSc, Chemical Engineering and Computer Process Control, University of Alberta
- Forbes Technology Council member; profiled by Canadian Business
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