Alessandro Rosano
$1.45B
as of 07/05/24
About Alessandro Rosano
Alessandro Rosano is the founder of HeyDude, a line of comfort shoes.
He and his business partner and U.S. distributor, Daniele Guidi, sold the business to Crocs for $2.5 billion in 2022.
Before starting HeyDude, Rosano had launched a number of businesses, including a wooden watch brand called WeWood and a line of wooden clogs with springs in their heels that sold under the name Baldo.
He grew up in Pistoia, Italy, a medieval city not far from Florence, and moved to Hong Kong to run his businesses.
With comfort shoes having a moment, HeyDude sales soared from $20 million in 2018 to $581 million in 2021, when Crocs agreed to buy the brand. Revenue for the latest 12 months is now over $1 billion.
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ItalySource of wealth
ShoesResidence
Hong KongSelf-made
self-madeAlessandro Rosano’s fortune is worth
24K
troy ounces of gold
22K
median U.S. household
15K
median U.S. income
0.029%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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Rosano built the HeyDude brand with no investment and minimal marketing.
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