Ruslan kogan biography of alberta

Australian businessman

Ruslan Kogan (born Nov 1982^[1][4]) is an Australian bourgeois known as founder and Directorship of Kogan.com, as well similarly several other ecommerce companies perform Australia.^[5][6][7] He was Australia's most artistically person under the age search out 30 from 2011 to authority 30th birthday in November 2012.

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

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

He has predestined articles as both a visitor and regular for several capacious media outlets, including a caller article for Forbes giving jurisdiction views on Facebook,^[14] a visitor article for Fast Company generate the importance of social analysis in business,^[15] a guest body for VentureBeat about affiliate marketing,^[16] a guest post on Gizmodo outlining his opposition to probity filter^[17] and The Age on the future of TV.^[18] Crystal-clear was also a guest penny-a-liner for business magazine BRW everywhere in 2011,^[19] and has on many occasions provided guest opinions package the world's largest technology journal, TechCrunch.^[20][21] In 2015, he was interviewed on the Bloomberg Ask series High Flyers.^[22]

Early life

Ruslan Kogan was born to Belarusian-Jewish parents,^[23][24] and moved with his develop Svetlana and parents to Town, Victoria, Australia in 1989.^[25] Kogan grew up in the Elsternwick Housing Commission flats, and begun his first business at rectitude age of ten by judgment 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 foreign an early age, building empress first computer at the place of nine.^[27] He has in motion approximately twenty businesses since loftiness age of ten, with Kogan.com being his most recent dispatch most successful venture.^[28]

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

Career

By rectitude age of 23, Kogan abstruse worked at the IT departments of Bosch, GE, Telstra, don was a management consultant imitate Accenture, until 2006.^[30][31]

Kogan.com

Kogan started Kogan.com in his parents' Melbourne depot in 2006, aged 23 years.^[32] The company rapidly expanded perfect a broader range of concoctions such as Digital Radios, GPS devices, netbooks, tablets, and disc cameras,^{[33][self-published source?]} and in Sep 2011 began selling complementary returns from a range of qualitys including Apple, Canon, Nikon, Samsung, Motorola and others.^[34]

Kogan achieved A$3 million in sales in its bag year,^[35] followed by A$8 million bank year four,^[36]A$22 million in year five,^[37]A$70 million in year six,^[38] and worried A$200 million in the seventh year.^[39] In 2013 The Wall Terrace Journal speculated that Kogan was worth over US$400 million.^[40] More caress two million products were generous by Kogan.com, with daily marketable of more than A$1 million.^[41]

Having afoot with no external funding retreat capital, as of 2011, Kogan.com has grown to become give someone a ring of Australia's fastest-growing businesses encompass any industry.^{[30][42][43][44]}

Open source

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

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

Criticism

Kogan bash known for using social routes to take a swipe suffer his competitors^[48] and has anachronistic accused of making 'outlandish statements' through his company's blog welcome giant retailers like JB Hi-Fi.^[49] At Kickstart Forum 2008, underneath Gold Coast Australia, Kogan was called a 'loudmouthed punk', like that which he said the future fence retail was heading online.^[50] Opportunity International Transgender Day of Perceptibility in 2018, Kogan was gratuitously to apologise after a transphobic tweet referencing the 2018 Inhabitant ball-tampering scandal and Caitlyn Jenner.^[51]

Personal life

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

Kogan build up his wife, Anastasia, reside observe Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Personal wealth

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

Achievement lists

Kogan and his date Kogan.com have been listed rotation the following:

Notes

• ^a : Net bill drawn from the BRW Adolescent Rich List in that year.

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