Igor Magazinnik

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Igor Magazinnik
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Nationality Israeli-Russian
Occupation(s) entrepreneur, businessman
Known for CTO and co-founder of Viber

Igor Magazinik is an Israeli-Russian entrepreneur and businessman of Jewish-Russian descent. He is known as the CTO and co-founder of Viber. [1]

Magazinik was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. [2] At age 16, he moved to Israel. Upon graduating university, he worked as a programmer and served 3 years in the Army. With Talmon Marco, he founded his first start-up (now defunct) iMesh. [2]

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