Rank #1732
Pavel Baudis
Net worth $2.4B
Software · Czech Republic
- Born
- May 15, 1960
- Age
- 66
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Prague
- Citizenship
- Czech Republic
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- In 1988 software engineer Pavel Baudis wrote his first antivirus program after a friend sent him a floppy disk containing the "Vienna" computer virus.
- In April that year, he and Eduard Kucera, with whom he'd worked at Research Institute of Mathematical Machines, cofounded ALWIL to sell the 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.
- Its goals for the future are loftier: to protect all things in your home connected to the internet, from thermostats to webcams.
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