Tatyana Bakalchuk, founder of Russian e-commerce retailer Wildberries, has become Russia's richest self-made businesswoman. According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, she has an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion i.
e. over Rs 61000 crores (approximately). Wildberries is called the 'Amazon' of Russia.
Recently, President Putin gave Tatyana the responsibility of creating a system to compete with the international payment network SWIFT. Wildberries has items of more than 60000 brands, including clothes, electronics, and household items. Tatyana Bakalchuk, who was once an English teacher, started an e-commerce business by investing Rs 32000 to run the household expenses during maternity leave.
Today, 48000 employees are associated with her company. She has a 99% stake in Wildberries, and her husband has a 1% stake. In the year 2023, Wildberries got a revenue of Rs 50000 crores.
Apart from Russia, this company is doing business in half a dozen countries, including Germany, Italy, and France. Tatyana Bakalchuk started her business journey in 2004. She took maternity leave for the birth of her 7th child.
It was becoming difficult to raise 6 children with the income of her IT professional husband. So, Tatyana invested Rs 32,000 and laid the foundation of an online shopping platform from her flat with the help of her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk and his friend. Initially, she sold clothes for the German retail company Otto.
She used to take pictures of the clothes and upload them o.
