David Sun
$16.9B
Born
Oct 12, 1951
Age
74
Source of Wealth
Computer hardware
Residence
Irvine, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Tatung University
- 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.
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