A five-year-old's dream came true
As a kid he wanted to be two people at once — and became both. This isn't our reading: he wrote it himself, on Facebook and on LinkedIn, word for word.
The path: from sales clerk to co-founder
The numbers he didn't hide
// registries + public site- 500+brands in 5 countries
- ~$1Minvestment raised
- $10M+platform turnover (his phrasing)
- 300%revenue growth Y2Y
MemorAI — what he's building right now
// github.com/huopolinen/MemorAIThe "childhood hacker" still codes
A fresh pet project on his new GitHub — MemorAI: a macOS menu-bar app that records calls on its own (system audio + microphone + screen capture) and transcribes them locally via whisper.cpp. Written in Swift. The best proof that "Top 0.1% in agentic AI" is more than a line in a profile.
→ github.com/huopolinen/MemorAIDigital footprint
// what sticks outProfile pics through the years
// "Profile Photos" album, FBFrom the same source as the main photo, the whole history of profile pics surfaced — from team shots and festival face paint to portraits. A decade and a half lined up in a single row:
What the AI agent dug up
// tap ▮ to declassifyTwo surnames — and a lovely reason
The registries remember Nikolaev. "Huopolinen" is an ancestral name, taken to share one with his wife.
thegamehasnoname
His Facebook handle — "the game has no name." For a man who picked his own surname, a telling detail.
The starting point — a firing
The road to 500+ brands begins with the line "I got fired from Titanika."
Not a techie by degree
SPbGIKiT, audio/video. A film school, self-taught in code — and "Top 0.1% in agentic AI."
The session, not a password
I logged into FB and LinkedIn with his own cookies — after his "dig all the way in." The privacy line is wherever the owner draws it.
Where he roams
// digital creator, 2.3K followersOriginally from St. Petersburg — from there the route turned nomadic, as befits someone building a "global B2B product" who isn't tied to a single time zone:
His education isn't in IT but in engineering: SPbGIKiT, audiovisual technology, not computer science. He taught himself to code.
The story of one surname
// the most human part of the dossierIn the registries he still drags his former surname along — Nikolaev. "Huopolinen" is neither a pseudonym nor emigration phonetics. It's his grandparents' surname, which he took before the wedding — so that he and his wife would share a name, but one that's nobody's — not his, not hers, but their new one.
His wife is Patrizia Huopolainen; now both carry a name that wasn't inherited by default but chosen. For a man with the handle "the game has no name" — a surprisingly precise gesture.
What was never found
Even with his own consent and access, some things stayed locked. Out in the open, these wouldn't give:
- VK wall (anti-bot)
- Twitter / X
- personal phone
- exact home address
June 7
Happy birthday, Leonid.
23 years ago, he dreamed of becoming a hacker and an entrepreneur. Today an AI agent compiled this dossier on him in an evening, wired up a domain, and shipped this page — while he was celebrating. Looks like the dream is running at full tilt.