- Category:
- Richest Business › Richest Billionaires
- Net Worth:
- $4.6 Billion
- Birthdate:
- 1949 (76 years old)
- Birthplace:
- Shanghai
- Gender:
- Male
What is Barry Lam's Net Worth?
Barry Lam is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who has a net worth of $4.6 billion. Barry Lam has firmly climbed the ladder of success, first as a co-founder of Kinpo company, and then as the founder and chairman of Quanta Computer. Lam founded Kinpo, which specializes on manufacturing handheld calculators, along with some former classmates in 1973. As a president of the company, he turned it into the largest contract manufacturer of calculators.
Being convinced that notebook computers would be the next big product, Lam left Kinpo to found his own company named Quanta Computer in 1988. Nowadays, Quanta Computer is one of the leading producers of laptops worldwide, producing PC notebooks for noted clients like Apple, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway , LG, Lenovo and Sony among others. Apart from possessing brilliant innovative thinking, entrepreneurial skills and engineering talent, Barry Lam is known for being a great patron of the arts and generous philanthropist.
