John Tu was born on 1940 in Rolling Hills, California, United States, is President, Kingston Technology Corporation. Kingstong Technology president, John Tu, helps run the firm, which makes storage and memory products, from a cubicle on sales floor.
With longtime partner David Sun, Tu launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC manufacturer AST a few years later.
After losing a fortune in the stock market in 1987, the pair started Kingston by capitalizing on the untapped market of surface-mount memory chips.
Chinese native who grew up in Taiwan got an engineering degree in Germany and then immigrated to the U. S. in 1971.
John Tu is a member of Technology
💰John Tu Net worth: $6.7 Billion
2009
$2.5 Billion
2010
$2.6 Billion
2011
$2.8 Billion
2012
$2.6 Billion
2013
$4 Billion
2014
$4.8 Billion
2015
$4.2 Billion
2016
$5.3 Billion
2017
$5.3 Billion
2018
$6.37 Billion
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Biography/Timeline
1982
In 1982, he co-founded Camintonn with David Sun. in 1986, they sold it for $6 million and founded Kingston Technology. In 1996, they sold 80 percent of the company to SoftBank for $1.5 billion, before buying it back in 1999 for $450 million.
2011
He has supported Erin Gruwell's Freedom Writers and the Freedom Writers Foundation. In 2011, he donated $1.2 million to give every first year medical student at UC Irvine an iPad.
