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Christian Kroll (born 5 December 1983) is an entrepreneur. He is the founder, and CEO at Ecosia.org; Christian born in Berlin, Germany. And growing up in Wittenberg, Germany.

Early life
When Christian was in high school, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, and the Internet bubble, was a stock market bubble caused by excessive speculation of Internet-related companies in the late 1990s and he got really interested in the stock market, which led him to take studied business administration at Nuremberg University. While he was studying, he started building a couple of websites and became in tech and the internet.

During His studies, he traveled to India briefly, which really opened his eyes up to the world. After He finished the studies, he started traveling around the world. He went to Nepal for six months and, after that, to South America. While travelling, He became aware of the problems in developing countries like massive inequality in Nepal and massive deforestation in South America. then he started thinking to contribute to a better world and return to Berlin and start a social business that would put its profits into tackling climate change and social inequality.

He is not interested in getting rich but he need more money to contribute to tackle climate change and make a positive difference for future generations.

In 2018, He made the decision to make Ecosia a steward-owned company, giving away my shares to the Purpose Foundation and making sure Ecosia can never be sold or have profits taken out of it. This ensures that Ecosia can continue to flourish and fill the world with trees, not fill the pockets of shareholders.

Social Business
During His studyies, He developed a website which compared banking services, He Spend Most Of The Website income to Google for advertisements. In Nepal he started a search engine with the goal of financing development projects. With Ecosia, He combined the profitable business model of a search engine together with the purpose of tackling climate change.

The Social Business was www.ecosia.org, a green search engine to contribute to the protection of the rainforests. He Generate the funding from his social business (Ecosia). he use the profit to plant trees where they are needed most. Till September 2020,they planted close to 100 million trees across 19 reforestation sites worldwide.

He Put all the income into the projects, but this meant they couldn’t pay themselves, let alone grow our team. After Some Times, the business started to grow and which help to invest in other green investments, like our own solar power plants.

Financial Reports
Till 5 Feb 2021 Ecosia’s Total income is 9,135,150€

They are providing completely transparent financial report. Ecosia’s August 2019 income net worth is $19.5 million. Each month, they paying their income to their different partners to plant trees and to regenerate forests. Currently, Ecosia has 8 million active users worldwide. To earn the trust of the users, Ecosia monthly publishes the financial reports on their website. Ecosia's founders can never take profits out of the company. In 2017 They built its solar plant to ensure it was 200% renewable energy, the search engine is carbon-negative.

Ecosia use sponsored results in thier search results. For every sponsored result, Ecosia earns money from the advertisers and use 80% of revenue to plant trees worldwide. Every search removes 1 kg of CO2, and every 45 searches on average plants one tree.