Alexander Samwer
$1.1B
Born
Jan 31, 1975
Age
50
Source of Wealth
tech investments
Residence
Munich,
Citizenship
Germany
Marital Status
Married
Children
1
Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Master of Arts, Oxford University
- 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.
- 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.
- He graduated from Oxford University and earned an MBA from Harvard University.
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