Tatyana Bakalchuk
Moscow, Russia
Bachelor of Science, State University of Management
Russia
ecommerce, Self Made
$1,000,000,000
2057
#2057 Billionaires 2019
Tatyana Bakalchuk, a former English teacher and mother of four, founded e-commerce retailer Wildberries in 2004.She founded the business at age 28 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave.Her husband, Vladislav, an IT technician, soon joined her. In the early years, she resold clothes from German retailer Otto.Wildberries, which offers 15,000 brands on its website, sold over $1.9 billion worth of apparel in 2018.
Wildberries processes roughly 400,000 orders a day.Bakalchuk is only the second woman from Russia to appear in Forbes Billionaire Ranks.
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