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: They basically made the opposite technical decisions to me somehow - they use a bunch of rack servers, I use towery ones, they use Windows extensively and I use Linux, they use Apache and I use nginx...
gollark: I know someone who uses a bunch of virtualization stuff, but I do containers.
gollark: Maybe Proxmox? I hear that exists.
gollark: Well, hardware encoding is generally worse quality than software, but fast it is.
gollark: My laptop's amazingly powerful™ intel iGPU™ can do hardware VP9 encoding *and* decoding.
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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