User:Idh4m/William Tanuwijaya

William Tanuwijaya (lahir di November 11, 1981 in Pematang Siantar) are an Indonesia n entrepreneur  which also the Co-Founder of  Tokopedia, an online e-Commerce platform in Indonesia. William represent Indonesia as Young Global Leader, at World Economic Forum.

Early Life and Family
William Tanuwijaya born on a small town  Pematang Siantar, North Sumatera on November 11, 1981. He went from elementary school until graduated from high school in this city,  William raised in a moderated economical family who understand the importance of higher education to improve the quality of life. After graduated form high school William went to college at Universitas Bina Nusantara (Binus) Jakarta. William got married with  Felicia H.W. on November 28, 2015.

College Life and Career
William wasn't coming from a wealthy family. To survive the living cost and college expense William must doing part time jobs while taking class at the college. On the second semester William working on internet cafe for twelve hours a day until he graduate from the University on 2003. After graduated William working as Software Developer in some company as  TelkomSigma and Sqiva Sistem, long after He work as Game Developer at Bolehnet. In 2006 William work as IT & Business Development Manager at Indocom Mediatama. From here the ideas to create an internet company rise up.

On 2007 William start to build Tokopedia, He ask for his friend Leontinus Alpha Edison help as co-founder of  Tokopedia,an e-commerce startup that connect buyers and sellers in unique ways all around Indonesia for free. At the first time it wasn't easy to grow the company beside the investment topic while William had to put focus on Tokopedia, his father got ill and sentenced  with a cancer. William acting to supporting his family since then.

William are one of the founder at Indonesia eCommerce Association, (idEA) and trusted to act as supervisory board

Business Story
On February 6, 2009, Tokopedia was officialy launched. At the same year on Indonesia Celebration of Independency August 17 Tokopedia launch for public access. on  October 2014, Tokopedia receive USD $100 Million from  Softbank Internet and Media and Sequoia Capital. This is the starting point for William achievment as a young entrepreneur. On 2016, William represent Indonesia as Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum. Tokopedia announced next stage of investment on August 17, 2017 for USD $1.1 Billion,from Alibaba Group, which also takes the Chinese Company as a major share holder of Tokopedia.