John Tu, born in 1940 in Rolling Hills, California, is the President of Kingston Technology Corporation. He and his partner David Sun have been running the company, which produces storage and memory products, from a cubicle on the sales floor since 1987.
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In 1982, he co-founded Camintonn with David Sun. in 1986, they sold it for $6 million and founded Kingston Technology. In 1996, they sold 80 percent of the company to SoftBank for $1.5 billion, before buying it back in 1999 for $450 million.
2011
He has supported Erin Gruwell's Freedom Writers and the Freedom Writers Foundation. In 2011, he donated $1.2 million to give every first year medical student at UC Irvine an iPad.