Ivo Lukačovič (born February 7, 1974, in

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entrepreneur, founder and chairman of

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Biography

Lukačovič was born in Prague and studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague, but terminated his studies after seven years. In 1995 he started to write code for a

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) and since 1996 he has run the directory at

. In 2011 he started Citationtech, which creates 3D maps from air pictures and in 2014 developed Windy.com, a global server for analyzing wind. Between 2010 and 2015 he reconstructed a historical Lockheed Electra 10A, which had previously been owned by J.A. Baťa. In 2015, the airplane was flown from

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to Točná Airport, where it became part of the private collection. In 2016 he reacquired a 100% stake in his company

Windy.com

Ivo Lukačovič founded Windy.com, which provides a real-time meteorological map and can view 35 different weather phenomena. It was founded in 2014, and originally started as an amateur project. As of May 2018 it had a team of six employees, and 300,000 users visiting the site per day.

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