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Name

John Tu

Primary Residence

Rolling Hills, California

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Citizenship

United States

Affiliated Companies

Kingston Technology Corporation

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

computer hardware, Self Made

Net Worth

$4,900,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/john-tu

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

394

Forbes Philanthropy Score

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#394 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#123 Forbes 400 2018

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Forbes List Rank Three: Link

https://www.forbes.com/richest-in-tech/

Summary

Kingston 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 maker 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.Tu, a Chinese native who grew up in Taiwan, got an engineering degree in Germany and then immigrated to the U.S. in 1971.

Did you know?

Tu met his business partner David Sun, who is 10 years his junior, at a basketball league.The company's name comes from one of John Tu's favorite bands, the Kingston Trio.

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Number of Children

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tu