Portrait of Joseph Liemandt

Rank #607

Joseph Liemandt

Net worth $6.6B

Software · United States

Born
Aug 05, 1968
Age
57
Source
Software
Residence
Austin, Texas
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Single
Children
0
Education
Drop Out, Stanford University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Joe Liemandt is the founder of ESW Capital, an investment firm that purchases software companies.
  • ESW Capital has purchased more than 100 small U.S. software companies with a strategy of moving their workforce to foreign freelance workers.
  • Liemandt is known for founding Trilogy Software, a product and sales configuration software company that was prominent in the 1990s.
  • He dropped out of Stanford to start Trilogy Software. By age 27, he was on the cover of Forbes magazine.
  • A few months later, he appeared as the youngest self-made member of the 1996 issue of The Forbes 400, with a $500 million net worth.