Rank #87
David Sun
Net worth $28.7B
Computer hardware · United States
- Born
- Oct 12, 1951
- Age
- 74
- Source
- Computer hardware
- Residence
- Irvine, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, Tatung University
Net worth over time
Biography
- David Sun cofounded and helps run Kingston Technology, which makes storage and memory products, as COO from a cubicle on the sales floor.
- With longtime partner John Tu, Sun launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later.
- The pair started Kingston by making surface-mount memory chips after losing most of their first fortune in the stock market.
- Sun and his wife, Diana, have a foundation that provides grants to education programs for under-served youth in the U.S. and Taiwan.
- The company's name comes from one of John Tu's favorite bands, the Kingston Trio.
- Sun met longtime business partner John Tu in a basketball league in 1978.