John Tu

John Tu is a Chinese American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Kingston Technology and a billionaire.

Kingston Technology CEO John Tu runs the firm, which makes storage and memory products, from a cubicle on sales floor.
With longtime partner David Sun, Tu launched a computer memory business out of a garage and sold it to now defunct PC maker AST a few years later.
After losing a fortune in the stock market in 1987, the pair started Kingston to manufacture surface-mount memory chips.
Tu, a Chinese native who grew up in Taiwan, got an engineering degree in Germany and then immigrated to the U.S. in 1971.
Tu’s first jobs in the U.S. included running a one-man gift shop with imported Chinese collectibles and selling commercial real estate.