Serg Bell is not your everyday entrepreneur. At 53 years of age, he has some tales to tell: from growing up in Leningrad under the USSR, to founding “a couple dozen” companies and this year selling a majority stake in one of them, Swiss-Singaporean cybersecurity firm Acronis, to EQT at a reported valuation of $4bn.
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