Which of the Russians and Ukrainians hit the Forbes list of geniuses

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At least four Russians were on the list of successful and promising young professionals, first compiled by Forbes. The list includes representatives of twenty different industries under 30 years.

A list called 30 Under 30 is published on the website. Forbes. It includes representatives from the UK, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine and Russia.

The list consists of 20 sections: “art and style”, “finance”, “consumer technology”, “sports”, “entertainment”, “retail and e-commerce”, “education”, “music”, “games”, “ venture capital, media, manufacturing and industry, enterprise technology, food and drink, social entrepreneurship, law and policy, science, marketing and advertising, energy , "healthcare".

Alexander Debelov, one of the founders of the organization for the students of The Kairos Society. Photo: Youtube StartupStoryTv

27-year-old Alexander Debelov, one of the founders of the organization for student entrepreneurs The Kairos Society, social media marketing company Crelligence Media and the video distribution network Virool, got into the category of media from Russia. It has more than 30 thousands of consumers in the world and has attracted funding in the amount of 6,6 million dollars, according to Forbes.

Pasechnik is the leader and co-founder of the internationally known Ecois.me project. Photo: Facebook Ivan Pasechnik

The “production and industry” section includes 28-year-old Ukrainian Ivan Pasechnik, the director and co-founder of the Ecois.me project, well-known on the international market. This is a home energy management system that connects to the power cable in the electrical panel and measures the electricity consumption in the house. Energy consumption data is analyzed in detail to track excesses and identify savings opportunities. The approximate estimated value of Ecois.me today is more than 800 thousand dollars.

In the “industry” section there was a former entrepreneur and banker Dmitry Samoilovskikh. The publication's experts included this 28-year-old Russian on the list for founding the company Tesla Amazing, which produces stickers that, thanks to the technology of statically charged polypropylene film, stick to any surface - without glue. In February 2015, the Samoilovsky company raised $250 thousand for its development, and currently its products are sold in more than 30 retail chains on five continents, the publication reports.

The youngest Russian in the Forbes list is 23-year-old Dmitry Aksenov, representing the field of the latest technologies. He specializes in software as well as exploring the capabilities of artificial intelligence. Aksenov jointly founded DigitalGenius and in May 2015 managed to attract investments in the amount of 3 million.

Also, Oleg Kivokurtsev, co-founder of Promobot, was included in the Forbes list. Together with like-minded Russians, he created a robot that can work as an administrator, hostess, promoter, as well as an advertising platform.

As wrote earlier by ForumDaily, the most successful man on the planet in 2015 was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

The state of Bezos is 58 billion dollars. Almost half of this amount he added over the past six months. He earned almost 30 billions in one year, because for the rating they took data from January 1 and December 4 on the 2015 of the year. It turns out that the businessman earned more Mark Zuckerberg and Brin.

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