John Tu
President, Kingston Technology Corporation
$16.28B
$250.6M (-1.5%)
as of 12/10/24
About John Tu
Kingston Technology CEO John Tu runs the firm, which makes storage and memory products, from a cubicle on sales floor.
With longtime partner David Sun, Tu launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later.
After losing a fortune in the stock market in 1987, the pair started Kingston to manufacture surface-mount memory chips.
Tu, a Chinese native who grew up in Taiwan, got an engineering degree in Germany and then immigrated to the U.S. in 1971.
In 2020, he invested $50 million in Fluxergy, a medical tech startup that developed a rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Computer hardwareResidence
Rolling Hills, CaliforniaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
08/12/41 (age 83)Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Technische Universität DarmstadtSelf-made
self-madeJohn Tu’s fortune is worth
271K
troy ounces of gold
250K
median U.S. household
163K
median U.S. income
0.326%
U.S. credit card volume
0.065%
GDP of the United States
0.048%
United States debt
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The company's name comes from one of John Tu's favorite bands, the Kingston Trio.
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