Rank #2625
Darwin Deason
Net worth $1.3B
Software · United States
- Born
- May 14, 1940
- Age
- 85
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Dallas, Texas
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Diploma, High School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tech entrepreneur Darwin Deason sold his Affiliated Computer Services to Xerox in 2010 for $6.4 billion.
- The day after he graduated high school, the Arkansas native moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma and got a job as a mail boy at Gulf Oil.
- Deason eventually joined Dallas data-processing firm MTech; he became its CEO at age 29 after all but his division failed. He sold it in 1988.
- Within days of sale, he started ACS to handle computer and other business process services for clients such as E-ZPass.
- Deason left his small town the day after he graduated high school, with $50 borrowed from his dad and a 1949 Pontiac.
- Deason grew up on an Arkansas farm; his family often didn't have a dollar to spare for the movies.