Ruslan Renatovich Fazlyev ( ba, Руслан Ренат улы Фазлыев, born March 27, 1980) is a Russian
Internet entrepreneur who has founded several companies. He is best known as a founder and developer of
Ecwid and X-Cart e-commerce platforms.
Ruslan is ranked number 14 in Hopes&Fears’s rating of young Russian entrepreneurs
and number 56 among Russian internet millionaires according to
Kommersant’s research.
Early life
Fazlyev was born in
Oktyabrsky,
Republic of Bashkortostan
The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик ...
. Ruslan has been programming since he was seven years old. At first, he used pen and paper. His first personal computer had no screen. Despite all the technical difficultues, Ruslan practised
reverse engineering
Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accompli ...
of software and created simple games.
From 1997 to 1999, he studied at
Ulyanovsk State Technical University
Ulyanovsk State Technical University (russian: Ульяновский государственный технический университет , abbreviated as UlSTU) is a technical higher education and research institution in Ulyanovsk. F ...
.
Ruslan dropped out of the school, but nowadays, he is regularly invited to lecture at USTU.
He is married to a woman he met before starting his own business.
Career
Ruslan claims that he became an entrepreneur only because he had no job in
Ulyanovsk. His first e-commerce software, named X-Cart, was released in 2001. Fazlyev and his friends utilised the code developed for commercial websites to create the first e-commerce product written in
PHP. X-Cart aimed small and medium businesses that could not afford far more expensive and complicated products such as
IBM WebSphere
IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications wi ...
Commerce.
adopted the same approach in 2009.
It is an e-commerce platform that can be built into any existing website or
social network page.
An award-winning product
received a 1,5M round from the
Runa Capital
Runa Capital is an international venture capital firm headquartered in Luxembourg that invests in deep tech ( AI, machine learning, middleware, open source, etc), cloud business software, fintech, edutech and digital health startups in early st ...
venture fund in December 2011
and a syndicated 5M round from Runa Capital and iTech Capital in May 2013.
Ecwid has been the world's most popular social network trading software since 2012.
Ruslan is CEO of Ecwid and Board Member of X-Cart.
Long before engaging in the software business, he created the first telecommunication company in Ulyanovsk. It was sold to a larger competitor in 2002.
From 2012 to 2014, Fazlyev was a member of the Expert Council for Development of the Russian
Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.
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1981 births
Businesspeople in computing
Russian chief executives
Russian computer scientists
Ulyanovsk State Technical University alumni
Living people
Bashkir people
Russian businesspeople in the United States