Rank #1259
Koos Bekker
Net worth $3.4B
Media, investments · South Africa
- Born
- Dec 14, 1952
- Age
- 73
- Source
- Media, investments
- Residence
- Cape Town
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School; LLB, University of Witwatersrand
Net worth over time
Biography
- Koos Bekker is revered for transforming South African newspaper publisher Naspers into an e-commerce investor and cable TV powerhouse.
- He led Naspers to pay a reported $34 million for a third of Chinese Internet firm Tencent Holdings in 2001--perhaps the greatest venture investment ever.
- In 2019, Naspers put some assets into two publicly-traded companies, entertainment firm MultiChoice Group and Prosus, which contains the Tencent stake
- Naspers has sold down its stake in Tencent over the years and today owns less than 25%.
- Bekker, who retired as the CEO of Naspers in March 2014, returned as chairman in April 2015.
- His Babylonstoren estate, nearly 600 acres in South Africa's Western Cape region, features architecture dating back to 1690, a farm, orchard and vineyard and more.
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