Tatyana Bakalchuk
Tatyana Vladimirovna Bakalchuk (Russian: Татьяна Владимировна Бакальчук; born on 16 October 1975) is a Russian entrepreneur of Korean ethnicity.
Tatyana Bakalchuk | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 October 1975 |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Net worth | US$1.4 billion (February 2020)[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Vladislav Bakalchuk ( m. 2004) |
| Children | 4 |
Early life
Having graduated from Kolomna University, she began working as English teacher.
Career
In 2004, while on maternity leave, she founded Wildberries from her Moscow flat, using her savings of $700.[2] In 2019, the company's value was estimated at $1 billion, which made Bakalchuk the second woman in Russia to become a billionaire.[3][4] In 2020, Forbes magazine reported that she was worth $1.4bn, making her Russia's richest woman.[5]
Personal life
She is married to Vladislav, an IT technician, they have four children, and live in Moscow.[1]
gollark: You can use informational time travel plus the fixed-timeline thing for hypercomputing, which is neat.
gollark: What I think a lot of settings do is have it so that you can transmit information to the past, but you can't edit history at all - what happened to cause the information to be sent, still happens. It's very confusing and can also be used for computation.
gollark: Er, future→past, I mean.
gollark: Any reliable past/future information channel would be data-mined to death, I think.
gollark: I mean, yes, FTL is equivalent to time travel, but I didn't mention that.
References
- "Forbes profile: Tatyana Bakalchuk". Forbes. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- Parfitt, Tom (21 February 2020). "Former teacher Tatyana Bakalchuk is Russia's richest woman". The Times. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- Au-Yeung, Angel. "Former English Teacher And Founder Of Online Retailer Becomes Russia's Second-Ever Female Billionaire". Forbes. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- Kozenko, Andrey; Kevin Rothrock (translator) (21 February 2019). "Introverted, daring, and very rich Meet Tatyana Bakalchuk, half of Russia's woman-billionaire population". Meduza. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
- "Tatyana Bakalchuk". Forbes. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
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