Forbes Indonesia - July 2019

JULY 2019 FORBES INDONESIA | 51

In two years, sales for

UiPath, a maker of “software

robots,” jumped 2,400% to

$200 million.

ROMANIA RUSSIA

VIETNAM

On the cover: Three years

ago Japanese entrepreneur

Tatsuya Hamada took

over Mobicom, Mongolia’s

largest telecom.

MONGOLIA

The country’s two video

game giants, CD Projekt and

Techland, now have a combined

a total value of $7 billion; the

former has sold 38 million

copies from the Witcher series.

POLAND

The Czech Republic and

Slovakia remain closely tied:

Of the 50 largest Slovak

companies, 9 are co-owned

by Czechs. And five of the

eight Czech billionaires have

significant assets in Slovakia.

SLOVAKIA

Michelin-starred

chef Ferran Adria,

the creator of El

Bulli, is plotting

a life outside the

kitchen: “I’ll never

open another

restaurant for all

the money in the

world.”

SPAIN

Zug, Switzerland, is the center

of “Crypto Valley,” home to

410 blockchain companies.

SWITZERLAND

Over 100 million Mexicans

will be online by 2020,

an 18% increase in a

year thanks to a surge in

smartphones and improved

infrastructure.

MEXICO

U.S. blue chips like Citi and

Capital One use cybersecurity

software from Portugal’s

Feedzai, which detects fraud

on banking and e-commerce

websites. It’s raised $82 million,

most recently receiving a $575

million valuation.

PANAMA PORTUGAL

JAPAN

The Chinese government is

investing in Atasu Group, a

logistics business founded

by Marat Zhuman, a former

railroad worker.

KAZAKHSTAN KOREA

Some 400,000 tons of carpets

are discarded annually here,

and Soner Alayurt’s recycling

company, Hagelson Plastik,

aims to turn that waste into raw

plastic to be reused.

TURKEY

The first and

only female

running a Ferrari

distributorship

in Asia is

Nandhamalee

Bhirombhakdi.

Since the

ex-Citibank

executive took

the wheel,

Thailand now

boasts some of

the highest sales

in Southeast

Asia.

THAILAND

KENYA

Ten years ago Ilze Švāne
cofounded SexyStyle online;
now she has the largest sex
shop in the Baltics on the main
street of Riga and almost $2
million in revenues.

LATVIA

Billionaires Martin and Olivier

Bouygues have a $1.1 billion

construction project that’ll turn

15 acres of sea in Portier Cove

into usable land.

MONACO

Pinkfong, the cartoon fox,

reigns supreme; created

as an education prop by

Seoul-based SmartStudy,

the character now

has TV shows, live

concerts, books, apps

and 28 million YouTube

subscribers.

At the Giraffe

Manor in

Nairobi, 11 of

the long-necked

creatures roam

the grounds,

visiting guests

at breakfast

and then

heading out

to a protected

sanctuary. (A

room starts at

$1,240.)

The Leonardo, a $3 billion,

55-story mixed-use building

in Johannesburg, will be

the tallest structure on the

continent when it opens

later this year.

SOUTH AFRICA

Sandro Salsano may have

Buffett-esque returns, but

unlike the Oracle, he likes

tech, investing in startups like

Dropbox, Stripe and Uber.

On the cover: Yukihiro

Sugihara, whose successful

investment firm has a

diverse workforce, including

chaos theorists.

Turning 15, Forbes Russia

profiled the country’s top

minds, like Yuri Milner.

On the cover: Vietnam’s 50

most influential women in

business, a group that includes

airline billionaire Nguyen Thi

Phuong Thao.