James Dyson
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
vacuums, Self Made
$5,400,000,000
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#303 Billionaires 2019
Global Game Changers 2017
James Dyson is chairman of Dyson, whose more than 60 consumer products generated $5.8 billion in sales in 2018.Frustrated with his family's vacuum, Dyson set out to invent a better version in 1978 using a cyclone to lift dirt.Dyson employs more than 5,800 engineers around the world and says it invests about $10 million a week in product development.Dyson's own electric car, which will cost $2.7 billion in R&D, will be manufactured in Singapore and launch in 2021.Dyson, who attended art school in London, does not have an engineering degree.Dyson's popular line of intelligent air purifiers claims to have used the data to create the most accurate picture of indoor air quality worldwide.
After five years of testing and 5,127 prototypes, Dyson invented the world's first bagless vacuum cleaner. Dyson's first vacuum was so powerful that its inner-cyclone mechanism separated air and dust at a speed of 924 mph and could pull cigarette smoke from the air.
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