Name
Tsai Chi-Jui
Tsai Chi-Jui
Taichung, Taiwan
National Taichung University of Education
Taiwan
shoes, Self Made
$1,200,000,000
1818
#1818 Billionaires 2019
#34 Taiwan's 50 Richest 2018
His Pou Chen, which he founded with his brothers in 1969, claims to be the largest branded athletic-and-casual-footwear-maker in the world.The company makes more than 300 million pairs of shoes a year for such customers as Nike, Adidas, Under Armour and Puma.Tsai's daughter Pei-Chun has been CEO since 2012.
The humble and intensely private son of Taiwanese weavers started as a textile worker and a primary school fine-arts teacher.Tsai and his three brothers began by making rubber shoes.
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