01 · Personal meetings that changed everything
How a coffee at the right table led to a company, a partnership, a country.
Also written as: #EverythingWillBeOK · Everything Will Be Ok · Everything Will Be Alright (commonly mistyped).
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How I built bridges while walls were falling.
A personal record of a ten-year journey — from an IT specialist with an international education to founding Faktorist, a global B2B trade marketplace. Not a textbook, not a playbook. A reader on how ordinary moments turn into extraordinary opportunities when you want them to.
Pre-order only · retailer availability announced on the pre-order page.
What you’ll find inside
Five threads, one through-line.
Stories that once inspired the author and can now inspire you — because everything is possible if you want it enough to keep showing up.
02 · How a quiet revolution in trade started with AI
The slow build of the operating layer underneath global B2B commerce.
03 · Building UAmbassadors — one of the largest referral programs in the world
How to grow a network from one room in Kyiv to thousands of advocates across continents.
04 · How a Ukrainian brand finds its place in the world
From the first booth at a European trade fair to retail shelves in three regions.
05 · The daily moments that shape the “#EverythingWillBeOK” philosophy
The small disciplines that keep optimism in working order during the loud weeks.
This is not a book of strategies or business plans. It is the record of how dreams become real through actual meetings with actual people — and how each day you can choose to believe things will work out, not as passive waiting, but as active construction of the future.
Read it if you want to believe your own story can be just as improbable. Because everything is possible when you really want it.
Pre-order at everythingwill.be/ok · release scheduled for 13 October 2026.
Chapters
The Beginning
From an IT specialist with an international education to a founder — the first companies, the first mistakes, the first crossings.
Building Through Crisis
How Faktorist was created during the most difficult years — and why the difficulty was the point.
Bridges Over Walls
How personal meetings turn into partnerships, and partnerships turn into countries doing business together.
Ukraine First
Connecting a nation to the world — trade as the strongest form of solidarity.
The Philosophy
Why #EverythingWillBeOK is more than a hashtag — the daily discipline behind the tagline.
About the Author
Oleksandr Kalonov is an entrepreneur and bridge-builder connecting Ukraine with the world. Across a decade of building companies across borders and industries, he learned to treat every ordinary encounter as a possible extraordinary opportunity.
#EverythingWillBeOK is his first book — written to inspire and guide others through life’s hardest, most improbable chapters.
Readers
#EverythingWillBeOK in the wild.
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Your resilience story starts here.
A field guide for builders in unstable times — practical wisdom on every page.
Pre-order only · retailer availability announced on the pre-order page.