Portrait of Marc Samwer

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Marc Samwer

Net worth $1.0B

tech investments · Germany

Born
Dec 03, 1970
Age
55
Source
tech investments
Residence
Munich
Citizenship
Germany
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
LLM, University of Cologne

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Marc Samwer and his brothers Alexander and Oliver founded Berlin-based tech incubator Rocket Internet in 2007 and took it public in October 2014.
  • Together, they own around 44% of Rocket. The company was valued at more than $8 billion at the time of its IPO.
  • Inspired by the dot-com boom, the Samwers created a German auction site, Alando, in 1999 and sold it to eBay for $43 million after a few months.
  • That was followed by the creation of mobile phone content provider Jamba!, which was sold to Verisign in 2004 for $273 million.
  • Marc studied law at the University of Cologne.

Financial assets

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