U.S. business magazine Forbes has placed Ukrainian tech entrepreneur Denys Zhadanov on its list of the 30 most successful people in Europe aged up to 30 in the Technology sector.
Called 30-under-30 Europe, the list includes 300 “young disruptors across a diverse list of categories.” They are leaders, creative inventors and entrepreneurs from Europe in 10 different sectors, including entertainment, finance and technology.
The list has people from a record number of 34 European countries, with entrepreneurs from places like Belarus and Kosovo included for the first time.
In the technology section, Ukrainian winner Zhadanov is listed along with representatives of world’s leading tech companies, like Google, IBM, and Deep Mind.
He is 29, and has already been involved in the tech business for 10 years, since starting to work part-time at his brother’s small software company, Readdle. A decade later the company has 120 people on staff, producing mobile applications that are sold on Apple’s App Store.
Readdle develops time management and productivity apps to make documents, images, books and PDF files easier to read, edit or share. More than 75 million people have downloaded the apps worldwide.
A user tests Documents 5, Readdle’s file manager. The company was launched in 2007, the same year that Apple launched its first iPhone. It is now enjoying multimillion-dollar revenue from 33 million downloads. (Volodymyr Petrov)
Zhadanov is vice president of marketing at Readdle, where, he says, he “wants to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs, especially from Ukraine.”
Ukrainians are frequent nominees in Forbes’s annual ranking. Last year GitLab cofounder Dmitriy Zaporozhets made the list, while the CEO Ecoisme, Ivan Pasichnyk, was listed the year before.
Both Pasichnyk and Zhadanov have both made the Kyiv Post annual 30 Under 30 lists of successful young Ukrainians – in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
“Our reporters vetted thousands of nominations and polled expert judges to compile the list and ensure that each member, whether a chart-topping musician or founder of a multi-million-dollar e-commerce company, is a leader in his or her industry,” Forbes wrote on Jan. 22 as it published the list.
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