Igor Rybakov

Igor Vladimirovich Rybakov (Игорь Владимирович Рыбаков; born 16 May 1972) is a meta-entrepreneur who co-owns the Technonikol industrial corporation.

He appeared on Forbes's 2021 list of the world's wealthiest people with a net worth of $2 billion.

He is an author, actor, showman, singer, and producer.

Rybakov is a philanthropist who focuses on education.

In 1988, while he was still in high school, Rybakov earned 1,400 Soviet rubles by working with a student construction brigade, which at the time was comparable to the annual salary of an engineer.

In 1992, he founded Technonikol with his classmate Sergei Kolesnikov.

In 2000, Igor and Ekaterina Rybakov's daughter, Polina, was born.

He founded the non-profit Rybakov Family Foundation in 2015.

In 2015, Rybakov was included for the first time in the Forbes rankings with a $450 million net worth.

In 2017, Thirst—a business philosophy by Rybakov—was published and won PwC's Business Book of the Year in Russia award in 2018.

In November 2018, Rybakov and Kolesnikov won the 2018 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Award in Russia.

Thirst is Rybakov’s first book, which won PwC’s Business Book of the Year in Russia award in 2018.

It focuses on Rybakov’s business philosophy illustrated by the story of Technonicol’s creation.

They attended the gala awards ceremony in Monaco in June 2019.

In 2019, Bloomberg reported the release of Rybakov's first music album Summer Has Been Going Away (Russian: «Уходило лето»).

In 2019, he produced a short film "Fair Play".

The Rybakov X10 ACADEMY is centered around entrepreneurs and the course “Entrepreneur Yourself!” from X10 ACADEMY and billionaire Igor Rybakov, which was rated #4 in the “most popular courses on Coursera among learners from Russia in 2019.” Also, “Entrepreneur Yourself!” was included in the TOP 10 most popular global courses launched in 2019 (per the aggregate data for 2019 from the Coursera online education service).

Igor Rybakov is the world's first billionaire who also creates video blogs.

He sees direct access to an online audience as a way to pass on the skills and practices that made him successful to as many people as possible.

He shares his business experience and secrets of successful entrepreneurial thinking.

In November 2019, there was a private opening for the most expensive art object in Russia—the Money Throne X10.

A glass throne with a million dollars is exhibited at the Museum of Emotions in Moscow.

The throne was made of heavy-duty glass and filled with a million dollars by Sergienko and Rybakov.

According to its creators, the Money Throne inspires people to increase their wealth and create socioeconomics where everyone is a beneficiary.

In 2019, Bloomberg reported the release of Rybakov’s first music album Summer Has Been Going Away.

In January 2020, the billionaire created an endowment for his home school #56 with a $1 million donation.

Rybakov said, “I am a grateful graduate of my school #56 and I want to complete my lesson at school, to give my eternal human thanks!”

The Rybakov family interacts with international organizations such as UNESCO and the World Bank.

UNICEF has designated the catastrophic weakness of preschool education as one of its global priorities, and estimates that about half of all young children in the world do not have access to pre-primary education.

The Rybakov Preschool is a project to create an international network of kindergartens and preschools that emphasises new forms of early childhood education.

The program is based on the approach recommended by the UNICEF Education Development Bureau.

Rybakov Preschool establishes a conducive learning environment in their preschools and provides continual special training for their teachers.

As of June 2020, his YouTube channel has over 750 thousand subscribers.

"Billionaire's Thoughts" is the flagship show of Rybakov's YouTube channel where he hosts weekly guests from trending news stories and shares his thoughts on the most pressing issues of the week.

"Rybakov Talks" is a special format for meetings and discussing the future of education.

In April 2020, Rybakov announced that he would sponsor a monument to the heroic healthcare workers treating COVID-19.

The project’s is funded by Rybakov and artist Alexey Sergienko.

They believe the modern medical industry cannot have just the protective, auxiliary function.

Rybakov and Sergienko want to bring to the world’s attention that after the pandemic, the medical industry has become the most important industry to shape humanity, and each healthcare employee today is a new type of hero.

Pediatrician Leonid Roshal was one of the contest judges for the best monument.