Jon Yarbrough
Franklin, Tennessee
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tennessee Technological University
United States
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video games, Self Made
$2,200,000,000
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#1057 Billionaires 2019
#368 Forbes 400 2018
Jon Yarbrough started Video Gaming Technologies, which makes casino games, in 1991.Business grew due to the proliferation of tribal casinos; Yarbrough says he's worked with around 35 tribes in more than 100 locations over the years.Yarbrough sold his company to Australian firm, Aristocrat Leisure, for $1.28 billion in October 2014. These days he manages his investments, which include real estate and tech stocks, through his family office Yarbrough Capital.
As a college student, he loaned his foosball table to a local arcade in exchange for 50% of its profits; now he keeps the table in his office.During college, he interned at NASA, where he designed a mini supersonic wind tunnel and sent instructions to the Mars lander.
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