Interview

June 22, 2023

The anti-Putin activist building supersonic planes

The Siberian-born serial founder has set his sights on building a plane faster than the speed of sound

Freya Pratty

6 min read

Mikhail Kokorich’s career has nearly always been entwined with the geopolitics of the day — the Siberian-born founder has had to quit both the US and Russia during his entrepreneurial life. 

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A photograph of Destinus's scaled-down model plane in flight
Destinus's scale model
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Freya Pratty

Freya Pratty is a senior reporter and investigations lead at Sifted. Follow her on X , LinkedIn and Bluesky

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