TENSES, GERUND/TO+INFINITIVE, AND PRONOUNS IN ARTICLE CEO TOKOPEDIA

WILLIAM TANUWIJAYA

William Tanuwijaya (Pematang Siantar November 11, 1981) is an Indonesian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Tokopedia, an Indonesian technology company with a leading e-Commerce business. (1) He has been representing Indonesia as Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum since 2016. (2) He received Satyalancana Wira Karya or Medal of Honor from the President of Indonesia for his contribution to Indonesia technology and economic growth in 2019.

Tanuwijaya was born in Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra. He graduated from high school there, His family was middle income who supported his education. William went to college at Universitas Bina Nusantara (Binus) Jakarta. William married Felicia H.W. on November 28, 2015.

(3) He was working all day in an internet cafe to pay for his collage in 2003. He then worked as a software developer in companies including TelkomSigma and Sqiva Sistem. He later worked as a game developer at Bolehnet. In 2006 Tanuwijaya worked as IT and Business Development Manager at Indocom Mediatama.

(7) In 2007 William started to build an e-commerce platform, it is named as Tokopedia. (6) He asked his friend Leontinus Alpha Edison as co-founder to develop an e-commerce startup that connects Indonesian buyers and sellers for free. At the same time his father was diagnosed with cancer. (8) He have to support his family since that time.

William is one of the founders of Indonesia e Commerce Association (IdEA) and serves as a member of its supervisory board.

On February 6, 2009, Tokopedia officially launched. At that year's Indonesia Celebration of Independence on August 17 Tokopedia opened for public access. In October 2014, Tokopedia received US $100 million from Softbank Internet and Media and Sequoia Capital. In 2016 Tanuwijaya represented Indonesia as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. (4) Tokopedia had been received a total of $1.1 bilion from Alibaba Group by the time they announced the next stage of investment in August, 2017. (5) Tokopedia also be the first ecommerce platform to accommodate 90 million user/ month in Indonesia.

1.Present Perfect         S + have/has + been + present participle (-ing)

2.Simple Past              S + verb-2/be (was/were)

3.Past Continuous       S + was/were + present participle (-ing)

4.Past Perfect              S + had + past participle (verb-3)

5.To + infinitive          ( To + verb)

6.To + infinitive          ( To + verb)

7.Personal Pronoun    (A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simplesubstitute for the proper name of a person)

8.Personal Pronoun    (A personal pronoun is a short word we use as a simplesubstitute for the proper name of a person)