Ivo Lukačovič

Ivo Lukačovič (born February 7, 1974, in Prague) is a Czech entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Seznam.cz,^[1] an Internet portal in the Czech Republic. According to Forbes magazine, he is the 11th richest person in the Czech Republic, with assets of around $1.3 billion.^[2]

Ivo Lukačovič
Born	(1974-02-07) February 7, 1974 (age 51)
Organization(s)	Seznam.cz, Windy.com

Biography

Lukačovič was born in Prague and studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague, but discontinued his studies after seven years. In 1995, he began writing code for a web directory (in Perl) and has since run the directory at Seznam.cz.^{[citation needed]} since 1996.

In 2011, he founded Citationtech, which creates 3D maps from aerial images. In 2014, he developed Windy.com,^[3] a global server for analyzing wind.^[4]

Between 2010 and 2015, he reconstructed a historical Lockheed Electra 10A, which had previously been owned by J.A. Baťa. In 2015, the airplane was flown from Toronto to Točná Airport, where it became part of the private collection.^[5]

In 2016, he reacquired a 100% stake in his company Seznam.cz.^[6]

Windy.com

Ivo Lukačovič founded Windy.com, which provides a real-time meteorological map and allows users to view 35 different weather phenomena. It was founded in 2014, and originally started as an amateur project. As of May 2018, it had a team of six employees and was attracting 300,000 users per day.^[7]