Ivo Lukačovič (born February 7, 1974, in

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entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Seznam.cz, an

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Biography

Lukačovič was born in Prague and studied at the

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, but discontinued his studies after seven years. In 1995, he began writing code for a

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) and has since run the directory at Seznam.cz. since 1996. In 2011, he founded Citationtech, which creates 3D maps from aerial images. In 2014, he 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 Seznam.cz.

Windy.com

Ivo Lukačovič founded Windy.com, which provides a real-time meteorological map and allows users to 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 was attracting 300,000 users per day.

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