A gaming mogul born in Russia was appointed the richest in Great Britain under the age of 40.
Dmitry Bukman, 39, built up his assets after founding the mobile play giant Playrix. His estimated assets of 12.54 billion GBP is over the Sunday Times 40 under 40 Rich list – and accounts for a third of its total amount of 36.2 billion GBP. His assets have almost doubled since last year.
As a child in Postsowjetic Russia, Bukman taught himself. In addition to his older brother Igor, he built his first game with an old Pentium PC, which was given to them by her grandfather. After Playrix was founded in 2004, the duo focused on free mobile games.
Her biggest hits – including homescapes, fishdom and township – are adhered to in the genres for the occasional puzzle and the simulation genre.
Most income comes from in-app purchases (IAP).
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In 2024, Playrix from IAP Revenue was the fourth largest mobile play publisher in the world and achieved around $ 1.66 billion. The company was also exposed to the allegations of the mechanics and misleading advertising.
The Bukman brothers left Russia in 2016. They moved to Israel in 2016 and then moved to Great Britain four years later. In 2022, they complete Playrix operations in their home country according to the full invasion of Ukraine.
Bukhman is far from finding the only technology leader on the rich list – almost half of its members come from the sector.
Bukhman joined five of them in the top 10: Herman Narula, CEO of Virtual Worlds Business UnlikelyOliver and Alexander Kent-Braham, the co-founders of the InsurTech company Marshmallow, and Piotr Dabkowski and Mati Staniszeki, the co-founders of the AI company Elevenlabs.
The ranking is a sub -group of the Sunday Times Rich list that profiled the 350 richest people and families in Great Britain. Their combined assets are estimated at 772.8 billion GBP – more than Switzerland's annual GDP.
