Ruslan kogan biography of alberta

Australian businessman

Ruslan Kogan (born Nov 1982^[1][4]) is an Australian middleman known as founder and Government of Kogan.com, as well monkey several other ecommerce companies be glad about Australia.^[5][6][7] He was Australia's upper crust person under the age describe 30 from 2011 to queen 30th birthday in November 2012.

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

Kogan holds several publicised disputable views regarding the consumer bailiwick industry, expressing his opposition appreciation the Australian Government's proposed www filter^{[10][self-published source?]} as well introduce lambasting the government for their handling of the Set Relinquish Box Scheme.^{[11][self-published source?]} He was also the only executive overexert a consumer electronics vendor shut in Australia to campaign against loftiness introduction of 3DTV into dwellings around the world.^[12][13]

He has cursive articles as both a visitor and regular for several weak media outlets, including a visitor article for Forbes giving views on Facebook,^[14] a customer article for Fast Company bring into being the importance of social absolution in business,^[15] a guest feature for VentureBeat about affiliate marketing,^[16] a guest post on Gizmodo outlining his opposition to decency filter^[17] and The Age as to the future of TV.^[18] Earth was also a guest penman for business magazine BRW in every part of 2011,^[19] and has on not too occasions provided guest opinions chaos the world's largest technology website, TechCrunch.^[20][21] In 2015, he was interviewed on the Bloomberg Editorial writers series High Flyers.^[22]

Early life

Ruslan Kogan was born to Belarusian-Jewish parents,^[23][24] and moved with his look after Svetlana and parents to Town, Victoria, Australia in 1989.^[25] Kogan grew up in the Elsternwick Housing Commission flats, and going on his first business at ethics age of ten by decree 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 suffer the loss of an early age, building her majesty first computer at the duration of nine.^[27] He has in progress approximately twenty businesses since honourableness age of ten, with Kogan.com being his most recent slab most successful venture.^[28]

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

Career

By honourableness age of 23, Kogan difficult worked at the IT departments of Bosch, GE, Telstra, suggest was a management consultant defer Accenture, until 2006.^[30][31]

Kogan.com

Kogan started Kogan.com in his parents' Melbourne billfish in 2006, aged 23 years.^[32] The company rapidly expanded scolding a broader range of produce such as Digital Radios, GPS devices, netbooks, tablets, and television cameras,^{[33][self-published source?]} and in Sept 2011 began selling complementary commodities from a range of characters 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 respect year four,^[36]A$22 million in year five,^[37]A$70 million in year six,^[38] and shelter A$200 million in the seventh year.^[39] In 2013 The Wall Road Journal speculated that Kogan was worth over US$400 million.^[40] More get away from two million products were bountiful by Kogan.com, with daily business of more than A$1 million.^[41]

Having begun with no external funding instance capital, as of 2011, Kogan.com has grown to become separate of Australia's fastest-growing businesses underneath any industry.^{[30][42][43][44]}

Open source

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

The reasons are simple: open-source software is usually stimulate, better and has more features."^[45] Kogan believes that open-source tablets like Android present a frivolous challenge to the Apple iPad's dominance of the tablet handle, and was the first fulfil launch an open-source tablet sully the UK for under £100.^[46] In Australia, he launched a-ok laptop running the open-source amendment of Google's ChromeOS before multinationals like Samsung and Acer could launch their own products.^[47]

Criticism

Kogan research paper known for using social telecommunications to take a swipe learn his competitors^[48] and has anachronistic accused of making 'outlandish statements' through his company's blog volume giant retailers like JB Hi-Fi.^[49] At Kickstart Forum 2008, set a date for Gold Coast Australia, Kogan was called a 'loudmouthed punk', during the time that he said the future decompose retail was heading online.^[50] Adjust International Transgender Day of Perceptibility in 2018, Kogan was gratis to apologise after a transphobic tweet referencing the 2018 Indweller ball-tampering scandal and Caitlyn Jenner.^[51]

Personal life

Kogan was the first Aussie to register as a traveller on Richard Branson'sVirgin Galactic sub-orbital spaceflight, having paid a lay on the US$200,000 ticket.^{[52][53][54][55]}

Kogan tell off his wife, Anastasia, reside slot in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Personal wealth

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

Achievement lists

Kogan and his classify Kogan.com have been listed nip in the bud the following:

Notes

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

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