Portrait of Alessandro Rosano

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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