Darwin Deason
Dallas, Texas
Diploma, High School
United States
Xerox, Self Made
$1,300,000,000
1717
#1717 Billionaires 2019
#397 Forbes 400 2011
Tech entrepreneur Darwin Deason sold his Affiliated Computer Services to Xerox in 2010 for $6.4 billion.The day after he graduated high school, the Arkansas native moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma and got a job as a mail boy at Gulf Oil.Deason eventually joined Dallas data-processing firm MTech; he became its CEO at age 29 after all but his division failed. He sold it in 1988.Within days of sale, he started ACS to handle computer and other business process services for clients such as E-ZPass.Deason is married to his fifth wife, Katerina, 27 years his junior. They split their time between Dallas, San Diego and their 205-foot yacht.
Deason left his small town the day after he graduated high school, with $50 borrowed from his dad and a 1949 Pontiac.Deason grew up on an Arkansas farm; his family often didn't have a dollar to spare for the movies.
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