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Caption: Traveloka Ferry Unardi
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Caption: Name: Ferry Unardi
Born: Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, January 16, 1988
Education:
Science and Engineering, Purdue University, USA (2004-2008)
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA (2011-2012)
Career:
Software Engineer at Microsoft, Seattle, United States (2008-2011)
CEO and Co-Founder of Traveloka.com (2012-Present) Biography
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Caption: The name Ferry Unardi might not be that familiar, but most Indonesians have heard of the airline booking website startup that he founded, Traveloka. Traveloka not only succeeded in becoming the best aircraft booking website, but also became one of the leading startups in Indonesia.
Ferry loved IT since he was a teenager and majored in mathematics in college. he also worked at Microsoft. Three years after he worked at Microsoft, the possibility of "not being the best engineer" bothered him. Since then, Ferry decided to look for another opportunity. He went to China just to see what this market offered. He found that the travel industry looked interesting, but the idea was only realized a short time later.
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Caption: Life and founded Traveloka Ferry Unardi was born in Padang, West Sumatra on January 16, 1988. After graduating from high school, Ferry continued to study abroad at Purdue University, located in the Indiana region, United States with a major in Computer Science and Engineering.
After graduating from college in 2008, then he was accepted to work as a Software Engineer at the Microsoft company in the Seattle area. He worked there for 3 years and he gained a lot of experience there. Shortly after, he resumed his education at the master's program at Harvard University.
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Caption: Ferry's business soul began to emerge when he had spent a semester on campus. He then chose to develop a business in the plane ticket reservation. This is based on his experience when he found it difficult to reserve tickets from America to Padang, because the available rte was only up to Jakarya and to go to Padang, he had to continue his trip again and that meant he had to make 2 flights.
In addition, he also has 8 years of experience studying the aircraft reservation system. With this, Ferry hopes that his business can make it easier for people to order plane tickets.
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Caption: In running his business, Ferry was assisted by two friends namely Derianto Kusuma and Albert Zhang. Very high confidence in his business and focus on developing the business then he chose to quit college.
Even though many people regretted the decision made by Ferru, but Ferry believed in the startup company. With the help of two friends, Ferry then began to design the core business core business and their future plans.
Ferry Unardi and his two friends then chose the name Travelooka and officially released it in October 2012. Their business trip was initially not smooth, at the beginning of the release, no airline would cooperate with them. But they did not break up quickly and continued to work hard to develop their business. Traveloka gradually began to develop and many airlines were willing to work with them.
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Caption: Initially, Traveloka only consisted of 8 people in running its business, but currently Traveloka had more than hundreds of workers divided into various divisions or departments.
Currently, Traveloka is one of the most successful startups in Indonesia. Since its establishment in 2012, Traveloka has continued to get injections of funds from various investors. Now it not only provides airline ticket sales but also hotel reservation services and train tickets.
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Caption: Until now, Traveloka has a valuation value of around 26.2 trillion rupiah. Total visits to the traveloka website reach 16.5 million people every month. This makes Traveloka called a Unicorn startup company together with Gojek and Tokopedia, a startup company with valuations above 1 billion dollars. Traveloka's success as the number one online ticket agent in Indonesia makes Ferry Unardi's name as Traveloka's CEO skyrocket.
thanks to its success, Ferry Unardi was named a successful entrepreneur under the age of 30 in Asia by Forbes. On December 10, 2015, Ferry was also named the Indonesia Marketing Champion 2015 in the field of e-commerce organized by Markplus.
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Caption: Income Traveloka? What do you guys think of with the word "Traveloka"? Yes, of course all of you are reminded of one company that provides online flight and hotel ticket booking services with a focus on domestic travel in Indonesia.
It turns out that behind the success of the Traveloka application there is a co-founder and CEO who is very important, namely a young entrepreneur named Ferry Unardi who is 27 years old. From sources circulating Platform flight ticket reservations and hotel vouchers are rumored to have been visited by 4-7.5 million visitors each month, great isn't it.
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Caption: That's what made Traveloka develop so rapidly until now. In fact, this company reportedly has a valuation value of around Rp. 26.2 trillion with a number of website visits reaching 16.5 million people every month.
Not only that, Traveloka's success as an online ticket agent in Indonesia also made the name of Ferry Unardi who now serves as the CEO of Traveloka skyrocketed and is well known to many people.
That's the success story of Traveloka's founder, Ferry Unardi, who never gave up building his business to be worth billions of dollars. Hopefully it can make you inspired to build your own business huh!