Rank #2569
Alessandro Rosano
Net worth $1.6B
Shoes · Italy
- Born
- Jan 01, 1970
- Age
- 56
- Source
- Shoes
- Residence
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
- Rosano built the HeyDude brand with no investment and minimal marketing.
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