David Sun

COO, Kingston Technology Corporation
$16.25B
$250.6M (-1.5%)
as of 12/10/24

About David Sun

David Sun cofounded and helps run Kingston Technology, which makes storage and memory products, as COO from a cubicle on the sales floor.

With longtime partner John Tu, Sun launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later.

The pair started Kingston by making surface-mount memory chips after losing most of their first fortune in the stock market.

Sun and his wife, Diana, have a foundation that provides grants to education programs for under-served youth in the U.S. and Taiwan.

The company's name comes from one of John Tu's favorite bands, the Kingston Trio.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Computer hardware

Residence

Irvine, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

10/12/51 (age 73)

Number of children

2

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Tatung University

Self-made

self-made

David Sun’s fortune is worth

271K

troy ounces of gold

250K

median U.S. household

163K

median U.S. income

0.325%

U.S. credit card volume

0.065%

GDP of the United States

0.048%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Sun met longtime business partner John Tu in a basketball league in 1978.

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