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Egor Sergeyevich Lavrov (Russian: Его́р Серге́евич Лавро́в; born June 4, 1981, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian entrepreneur who made his money in IT-related projects, political PR, and a number of businesses in the United States and Latin America.[1]
Egor Lavrov | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 4, 1981 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | businessman |
Early years
editLavrov was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied at private school called Kommersant, spent a year in London and later moved to Prague, Czech Republic.[2]
He finished school in Prague and came back to Moscow during a period of rising interest in the Internet in Russia. He later joined Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy[2] and started his own business at the same time.
Early political and business career
editLavrov's first business was the first Internet-related magazine in Russia called Planeta Internet.[2] It was later sold to Smolensky Bank who paid about 2 million dollars to Lavrov when he was just 16 years old.[2]
Lavrov's next step in business was the GFX Advertisement Company that later was acquired by the "Plaza Group" and transformed to "PLAZA Internet" that was a base for Internet projects of Egor Lavrov and Umar Dzhabrailov such as "obozrenie.ru" and "fuck.ru".[3]
When Lavrov was 19 he became a head of the election campaign of Umar Dzhabrailov who ran for the President of Russia.
Dzhabrailov came in last with 0.8 percent of the vote but became Chechnya's representative in the Federation Council of Russia.[4]
Business
edit- "Friends Around": Geo-Aware Mobile Social Network
- Zila Networks
- Karma World
- "Pravda Group"[5]
- "Russian Standard Group" - a company that distributes Apple, Inc. in Latin American market.
- ParagonCoin – Gibraltar-based startup that teamed-up with ICOBox[6] and got the funds using ICO mechanism. In 2018, SEC settled non-fraud SEC registration charges.[7]
References
edit- ^ Lavrov, Egor. "The Iowa Beauty Queen, The Russian Technocrat And Their Cannabis Crypto Launch". Forbes. Forbes. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Egor Lavrov". 100thousandclub.com. 2008. Archived from the original on 2 August 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
- ^ Кто купит скандальное доменное имя? (in Russian). clickz.ru. Archived from the original on January 18, 2005. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
- ^ "Mr Umar DZHABRAILOV". Council of Europe. 2008. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
- ^ "Pravda Sushi Bar & Lounge-About" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 10, 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
- ^ "Blockchain Startup Paragon Bets $100M Cannabis Supply Chain Will Tokenise". 10 September 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ Lavrov, Egor. "Two ICO Issuers Settle SEC Registration Charges, Agree to Register Tokens as Securities". Securities and Exchange Commission. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 19 July 2024.