Biography William Tanuwijaya - Founder Tokopedia, Market Place Online Indonesia

William Tanuwijaya

Biography William Tanuwijaya - Lately, the name is often really called either in print, electronic and on the internet. William Tanuwijaya is the founder Tokopedia, a marketplace or selling sites online Indonesia.

Tokopedia is the first marketplace in Indonesia who managed to get funding or funding from Softbank and Sequoia Capital. Where the amount of funding reached 100 million US dollars.
Note that Softbank and Sequoia Capital is the investment peruahaan behind the success of Alibaba and Facebook.




Starting from an introverted, and just hang out on the Internet, William could eventually become a successful carve his history.

Obviously the success of William Tanuwijaya interlocked with Tokopedia success. How history an introvert like William Tanuwijaya could establish a big marketplace Tokopedia class. Here's Biography and History William Tanuwijaya establishment Tokopedia

Biography William Tanuwijaya - Birth, Childhood and the Future Lecture

Founder Tokopedia
William Tanuwijaya

William Tanuwijaya Pematangsiantar born on November 18, 1981. childhood through high school he spent in the region of his birth. After graduating high school, William decided to leave the hometown to study at Bina Nusantara University in Jakarta.

With the capital that is not so big and powerful dreams to be successful in the capital Jakarta, William Pematangsiantar departing from Jakarta to drive ships. Four days and three nights he went through the ship, full of optimism tempestuous feeling in his chest.

At Bina Nusantara University (Binus) William Tanuwijaya majored in Informatics. When the second semester, he decided to work while college because an allowance from parents is certainly not how're Jakarta everything is expensive.

William Tanuwijaya then worked disebuah cafe near the campus as a guard from 9 pm to 9 am. By practical life are always struggling with computers and the online world. William increasingly preoccupied with his world, nature introvertnya helped by the free internet while he worked. He can socialize through online groups.

During college he dreamed of someday if he has graduated he wanted to work in IT based companies such as Google, but then Google has been no branch office in Jakarta. So that upon graduation he applied at the software maker in Jakarta.

Biography William Tanuwijaya - Build Tokopedia

William Tanuwijaya CEO Tokopedia
William Tanuwijaya - Founder Tokopedia

William Tanuwijaya often asked by people to make a website online store, when he was a student and keep the cafe. But most of them are very new to the online world, while the website should be constantly activated by posting a photo of merchandise, answering customer chat etc. Not to mention that there are parts of the website are not working. Well of course complicated once for the traders have to take care of the merchandise and if the care of the website.

From there the idea of ​​Constructing an Online Market Place concept Marketplace sparked by William Tanuwijaya. According to him, will have to marketplacenya simple, reliable and free.

When William Tanuwijaya already working, he invites his friend named Leontinus Edison to realize his idea. They named marketplacenya "Tokopedia". William wanted to focus on building Tokopedia. But he had to keep working, because it is the backbone of the family. Her father being cancer so that it can no longer work.

William had to be clever divide their time between realizing his dream of building a Tokopedia and keep working.

When it was in 2007, Tokopedia not yet maximal and immature. Hit funding problems, William learned from Facebook and Google, they Seua youth who started from the idea, they propose funding to the venture-venture will provide fundingnya. William Tanuwijaya meet his boss to tell him. Bosnyalah because only rich people he knew.

From there his boss introduced William to the other bosses who have capital. William had to present their ideas. From William should be completely open mind, should really accept the reality that it is very difficult to get confidence.

A lot of bosses do not believe that capital owners William because William is not family background businessman, William was not a graduate education abroad. But William Tanuwijaya hold these dreams to realize Tokopedia. He found, the past can not be changed, but the future can be cultivated.

Two years William seek funding or funding for Tokopedia. Finally in 2009 William Tanuwijaya secured funding / financing for Tokopedia first. Later that year, the official Tokopedia stand.

From year to year, funding for Tokopedia growing in terms of both the investor and the terms of the investment amount. Until 2014, William Tanuwijaya trusted by Softbank and Sequoia Capital to better manage a classy Tokopedia into the International marketplace.

Softbank and Sequoia Capital is an investment company which also funded Google, facebook and Alibaba. Starup and Tokopedia is the first in Indonesia that received funding from Sequoia Capital and Softbank.

After six years have passed since 2009, Tokpedia initially only 4 employees now grown to 300 employees.

For William, Tokopedia not only the embodiment of the dreams since college but also has opened up employment opportunities for banhyak people. Now people who want to trade their goods do not need to hire a programmer to mengonlinekan capek2 merchandise. They are quite open stalls Tokopedia and pass onlineshopnya. Lots of merchants (the person who opened the stall in the marketplace as Tokopedia) claimed to be greatly assisted by the presence of Tokpedia.

William Tanuwijaya has been considered successful build Tokopedia marketplace. Tokopedia regarded as fairly successful startup in Indonesia. Although until now there has been IPhO and not turnover. But its existence has been proven to provide answers to the problems of online stores in Indonesia.


That is the Biography of William Tanuwijaya success for Tokopedia, Success for William Tanuwijaya.

Biodata William Tanuwijaya

Name William Tanuwijaya
Place of Birth Pematangsiantar date, 18 November 1981
S1 Bina Nusantara University
Career Founder Tokopedia since 2009

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