David Sun
Irvine, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tatung University
United States
Kingston Technology Corporation
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computer hardware, Self Made
$4,900,000,000
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#394 Billionaires 2019
#123 Forbes 400 2018
David Sun cofounded and helps run Kingston Technology, which makes storage and memory products, as COO from a cubicle on the sales floor.With longtime partner John Tu, Sun launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later.The pair started Kingston by making surface-mount memory chips after losing most of their first fortune in the stock market. Sun and his wife, Diana, have a foundation that provides grants to education and health-based programs, primarily in Taiwan. The company's name comes from one of John Tu's favorite bands, the Kingston Trio.
Sun met longtime business partner John Tu in a basketball league in 1978.Sun and Tu sold their first business and poured the earnings into the stock market; they lost nearly everything on October 19, 1987.
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