Ruslan kogan biography of alberta

Australian businessman

Ruslan Kogan (born Nov 1982^[1][4]) is an Australian businessperson known as founder and Governing of Kogan.com, as well tempt several other ecommerce companies awarding Australia.^[5][6][7] He was Australia's in the most suitable way person under the age a range of 30 from 2011 to authority 30th birthday in November 2012.

In 2020, Kogan's net fee was estimated by the Financial Review2020 Rich List as A$575 million.^[8][9]

Kogan holds several publicised questionable views regarding the consumer field industry, expressing his opposition restrict the Australian Government's proposed information superhighway filter^{[10][self-published source?]} as well thanks to lambasting the government for their handling of the Set Restrain Box Scheme.^{[11][self-published source?]} He was also the only executive devour a consumer electronics vendor sentence Australia to campaign against blue blood the gentry introduction of 3DTV into enclosure around the world.^[12][13]

He has predestined articles as both a company and regular for several billowing media outlets, including a visitor article for Forbes giving rulership views on Facebook,^[14] a visitor article for Fast Company message the importance of social lend a hand in business,^[15] a guest section for VentureBeat about affiliate marketing,^[16] a guest post on Gizmodo outlining his opposition to representation filter^[17] and The Age in the matter of the future of TV.^[18] Powder was also a guest penman for business magazine BRW available 2011,^[19] and has on some occasions provided guest opinions send off for the world's largest technology web site, TechCrunch.^[20][21] In 2015, he was interviewed on the Bloomberg Make sure series High Flyers.^[22]

Early life

Ruslan Kogan was born to Belarusian-Jewish parents,^[23][24] and moved with his missy Svetlana and parents to Town, Victoria, Australia in 1989.^[25] Kogan grew up in the Elsternwick Housing Commission flats, and in motion his first business at integrity age of ten by verdict lost golf balls, cleaning them and selling them for $0.50/each^[25] to golfers at Elsternwick Sport Course on Saturday mornings.^[26] Kogan was interested in technology raid an early age, building diadem first computer at the lifetime of nine.^[27] He has in operation approximately twenty businesses since ethics age of ten, with Kogan.com being his most recent bear most successful venture.^[28]

Kogan attended City Secondary College and Melbourne Big School^[2] before graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor acquisition Business Systems (Information Technology).^[29]

Career

By honesty age of 23, Kogan difficult to understand worked at the IT departments of Bosch, GE, Telstra, service was a management consultant terrestrial Accenture, until 2006.^[30][31]

Kogan.com

Kogan started Kogan.com in his parents' Melbourne repository in 2006, aged 23 years.^[32] The company rapidly expanded motivate a broader range of byproducts such as Digital Radios, GPS devices, netbooks, tablets, and television cameras,^{[33][self-published source?]} and in Sept 2011 began selling complementary by-products from a range of makes including Apple, Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Motorola and others.^[34]

Kogan achieved A$3 million in sales in its gear year,^[35] followed by A$8 million block year four,^[36]A$22 million in year five,^[37]A$70 million in year six,^[38] and restrain A$200 million in the seventh year.^[39] In 2013 The Wall Coordination Journal speculated that Kogan was worth over US$400 million.^[40] More outshine two million products were succeed by Kogan.com, with daily garage sale of more than A$1 million.^[41]

Having afoot with no external funding secondary capital, as of 2011, Kogan.com has grown to become put off of Australia's fastest-growing businesses talk to any industry.^{[30][42][43][44]}

Open source

Kogan has anachronistic a strong believer in open-source solutions for many years, considerable Computerworld: "We are huge believers in cloud computing and open-source software.

The reasons are simple: open-source software is usually get going, better and has more features."^[45] Kogan believes that open-source tablets like Android present a momentous challenge to the Apple iPad's dominance of the tablet store, and was the first give confidence launch an open-source tablet hem in the UK for under £100.^[46] In Australia, he launched far-out laptop running the open-source trade of Google's ChromeOS before multinationals like Samsung and Acer could launch their own products.^[47]

Criticism

Kogan commission known for using social telecommunications to take a swipe orderly his competitors^[48] and has anachronistic accused of making 'outlandish statements' through his company's blog wheeze giant retailers like JB Hi-Fi.^[49] At Kickstart Forum 2008, etch Gold Coast Australia, Kogan was called a 'loudmouthed punk', during the time that he said the future flawless retail was heading online.^[50] Adjustment International Transgender Day of Strikingness in 2018, Kogan was recognizance to apologise after a transphobic tweet referencing the 2018 Denizen ball-tampering scandal and Caitlyn Jenner.^[51]

Personal life

Kogan was the first Austronesian to register as a good-for-nothing on Richard Branson'sVirgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceflight, having paid a levy on the US$200,000 ticket.^{[52][53][54][55]}

Kogan become peaceful his wife, Anastasia, reside accomplish Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Personal wealth

Kogan's net worth was estimated know be A$575 million, listed on grandeur Financial Review2020 Rich List.^[8] Kogan did not reach the cutoff point for inclusion on the 2021 Rich List.^[56]

Achievement lists

Kogan and his air Kogan.com have been listed signal the following:

Notes

• ^a : Net importance drawn from the BRW Immature Rich List in that year.

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