Zhou Qunfei
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Lens Technology
smartphone screens, Self Made
$3,700,000,000
745
#745 Billionaires 2019
#62 Power Women 2018
Zhou Qunfei chairs Lens Technology, a smartphone screen supplier whose customers include Samsung, LG, Microsoft and Nokia.A migrant factory worker as a teenager, Zhou has gone on to become one of the world's richest self-made women.Her consumer electronics supplier also laminates display panels for Tesla.Zhou first took the plunge as an entrepreneur in 1993 when she set up a watch parts company with relatives in an apartment in Shenzhen.Lens Technology went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in March 2015, 22 years after she founded the company. Zhou Qunfei has seen her fortune fall in 2018, driven by U.S. tariffs on China and Elon Musk's resignation as Tesla's chairman.
Growing up she helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money.Ms. Zhou dropped out of school at 16 and traveled south to Guangdong province to live with her uncle's family and search for better work.
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