Rank #394
Ken Xie & family
Net worth $9.0B
Cybersecurity · United States
- Born
- Jan 26, 1963
- Age
- 63
- Source
- Cybersecurity
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science, Tsinghua University; Master of Science, Tsinghua University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ken Xie is the cofounder and CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm that offers firewalls, cloud security and other services to businesses.
- The son of two Chinese academics, Xie's parents hoped that he would become a professor and sent him to Stanford University to study engineering.
- Xie became interested in entrepreneurship while at Stanford, founding his first company, a software firewall business named SIS, in 1993.
- He started another cybersecurity firm, NetScreen, three years later, before founding Fortinet with brother Michael Xie in 2000.
- The California-based company, which went public on the Nasdaq in 2009, reported nearly $6 billion in 2024 revenue. Ken owns more than 8% of Fortinet.
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