Biography
Igor Koropov - Businessman, Marketer, Coordinator and Software Director Skillbox, Expert in Graphic Design. Little left in November 2020.Childhood and youth
Igor Valentinovich Koropov was born in Moscow on February 1, 1989. Parents were engaged in entrepreneurship and were able to provide a starting businessman starting capital. It was not going to work on hiring a guy.
At a young age, Igor was a cadet of the Moscow Suvorov School, showed ability to computer science. Perforced instructions for the management of statistics and road documentation. According to memories of classmates, he kept a mansion, he did not communicate with anyone, avoided conflicts. Throw his studies on the 1st year.
Koropov worked as a designer as a freelancer. In 2007, together with another, Alexander Plekhanov created his own web studio. In his spare time, he played as a DJ in Moscow cafes, bars and clubs.
Personal life
In the personal life of a man was not his wife and children. He was characterized as a good and peace-loving person. He worked until late at night and got up early, worked on weekends and on birthdays. Each morning ran 6 km with a personal trainer.Koropov believed in astrology and tried to make a forecast for every day.
Business
Professional biography. Young man started with design for a network of retail stores. Soon Igor with another Dmitry Krutov thought about their own startup. Beginners entrepreneurs analyzed the market niches from pharmacy business to sushi restaurants.
In 2013, friends acquired a consulting agency Mokselle, where Koropov took the place of Marketing Director. In this position, among other things, received an order for the Promotion of the electric car Ilona Mask Tesla in Russia. Tightly collaborated with the "Business Youth" community and the Bake Pro personal branding laboratory.
The agency needed Diditel specialists, and partners decided to develop frames directly within the business.
Initially, the project existed as a Mokselle division called "Code Point". Employees have learned web design and web development, received an idea of the market. In 2016, the educational service turned into an independent Skillbox company.
In the learning system, computer algorithms were used to analyze the progress of the student. The platform fixed when the student came and left the classes, in which places stopped the training rollers, whether the rewind function was used. On the basis of these, this was the forecast, how long will you need to master the course and what a task to offer a student is simple or complex.
Students explained how simple decisions can bring business to a catastrophe or raise the upper line of the rating. For example, many companies lost customers only because they used photographs of Americans, black or Asians in advertising banners. Koropov explained that the Russians want to see only compatriots in advertising.
For 2 years, online universities rose to 150 programs in which 40 thousand students were trained. In February 2019, the co-owner of the company became Mail.Ru Group. At the end of the year, the platform received a Runet Prize in the "Technology and Innovation" nomination.
In the online education market, the project occupied the 2nd place, yielding Skyeng and ahead of the "Ut." He has proven himself not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan.
Death
On November 1, 2020, the Skillbox co-founder disappeared in the city of Sochi, when at night came out of the hotel, dressed in a light beige sweatshirt, brown pants and white sports shoes. The entrepreneur took with him a backpack and scooter. The disappearance was informed Igor's friend.
Koropova's phone was discovered by random passersby at 05:00 in the morning on the pier of Imeretin lowland. The rescuers of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Krasnodar Territory took part, volunteers of the Liza Alert squad and diver. The latter found the missing backpack in the Black Sea.
On November 2, on the marketer page in Vkontakte, there were an ad as requested to announce the location of Igor, if someone meets him.
On November 6, 2020, the businessman was found by a dead trainer on Wayobard Sergey Korotov. This was reported by the coordinator of the Liza Alert detachment, Maria Swan. According to the investigation, the cause of death was not violence - the man drowned. Students Skillbox left many messages to Koropov's photos in his account in "Instagram" in which Igor thank training and the opportunity to get interesting knowledge and skills.