Oksana is a seamstress and cutter who took up handmade toys while on maternity leave and sold her very first toy for 50 hryvnias. Her shops DollCotton and BlytheClothesDesign now offer handmade textile toys and custom clothes for dolls.

Denys and his partner run a small business making unusual, custom and even rare parts for BMW cars. The company has divisions in several countries and builds a separate brand for each market, while quality and service make the Ukrainian products recognisable.

Nazar graduated from the National Aviation University and later set up his own woodworking production. His wooden products sell on Amazon and Etsy, and his FunnyPlay shop has almost passed the mark of sixty thousand sales.

The company has been on the market for 13 years and since 2015 has focused on promoting and reviving folk decorative art. The project combines making and selling its products with teaching Samchyky and Petrykivka painting.

Oleksandr started selling on Etsy in 2012 and later opened Sanati Factory, a leather notebook shop, together with his wife Nataliia. In 2016-2017 the project was among the top 50 shops in Ukraine. That experience shaped his books and the Western Bid business school.

Andrii joined Western Bid ten years ago as a client selling goods abroad. Then came lectures on eBay trading, work as manager of Komok, the first commission-based online store in Ukraine, and nineteen offices opened across Ukraine.