Alexander Samwer
Cofounder, Rocket Internet
$1.06B
as of 04/26/25
About Alexander Samwer
Alexander Samwer and his brothers Oliver and Marc founded Berlin-based tech incubator Rocket Internet in 2007 and took it public in October 2014.
The youngest of the brothers, Alexander does not take part in day-to-day management of the company, leaving that to Oliver.
Together, the brothers own around 50% of Rocket. In October 2020, the company delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is now private.
Inspired by the dot-com boom, the brothers created a German auction site, Alando, in 1999 and sold it to eBay for $43 million after a few months
That was followed by the creation of mobile phone content provider Jamba!, which was sold to Verisign in 2004 for $273 million.
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GermanySource of wealth
tech investmentsResidence
Munich, GermanyMarital status
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01/31/75 (age 50)Number of children
1Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Master of Arts, Oxford UniversitySelf-made
self-madeAlexander Samwer’s fortune is worth
18K
troy ounces of gold
16K
median U.S. household
11K
median U.S. income
0.021%
U.S. credit card volume
0.004%
GDP of the United States
0.003%
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Alexander is on the board of directors of Zalando, a German e-commerce company founded by Rocket Internet and modeled after Zappos in the U.S.
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