Rank #2588
Eduard Kucera
Net worth $1.5B
Software · Czech Republic
- Born
- Jan 11, 1953
- Age
- 73
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Prague
- Citizenship
- Czech Republic
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Eduard Kučera is the cofounder of Prague-based internet security company Avast Software.
- In 1988, he and Pavel Baudis, with whom he'd worked at Research Institute of Mathematical Machines, cofounded ALWIL to sell an antivirus software.
- Following the fall of Communism in 1989, the pair broke off to establish what would become Avast.
- Now run by an outside CEO, Avast, which secures online activities for more than 435 million users, went public in 2018.
- In 2021, Avast, which Kučera chaired Avast from 2006 to 2014, agreed to merge with cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock.
- Kučera is one of the biggest watch collectors in Czechia; he also owns a significant vintage car collection with his son.
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