Thor Bjorgolfsson
$1.0B
Born
Mar 19, 1967
Age
58
Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
London,
Citizenship
Iceland
Marital Status
Married
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, New York University
- Thor Bjorgolfsson owns stakes in such businesses as Swiss pharmaceutical company Xantis and Chilean telecom WOM.
- Bjorgolfsson also has investments in cryptocurrencies and startups Zwift, Deliveroo and Stripe.
- Bjorgolfsson made his first fortune in the wilds of Russia, cofounding Bravo brewery and creating the popular Botchkarov beer brand.
- He sold it to Heineken in 2002 and used the proceeds to go on a buying spree in his native Iceland and Eastern Europe.
- He lost nearly all of his fortune when Iceland nearly went bankrupt in 2008 and he had to find a way to pay off more than $1 billion in debt.
- His great-grandfather Thor Jensen was one of Iceland's first entrepreneurs, who survived bankruptcy twice and was later one of Iceland's largest landowners.
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