Jon Yarbrough

Jon Yarbrough (born 1956/1957) is an American billionaire, the founder of Video Gaming Technologies.

Jon Yarbrough
Born1956/1957 (age 62–63)[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationTennessee Technological University
Known forFounder, Video Gaming Technologies
Net worthUS$2.2 billion (October 2018)[1]
Spouse(s)married
Children2

Early life

Jon Yarbrough has a bachelor's degree from Tennessee Technological University.[1] His first entrepreneurial experience was selling with Southwestern Advantage[2]. An aficionado of foosball, he then purchased a foosball table and struck a deal with a bar in Cookeville, Tennessee (where Tennessee Tech is located): if they would store the table for him, he would split the proceeds earned from games played by the bar's clients.[1]

Career

In 1991, Yarbrough founded Video Gaming Technologies. In October 2014, he sold it to the Australian company Aristocrat Leisure for $1.28 billion.[1][3][4]

As of September 2015, he had a net worth of US$1.7 billion.[1]

Personal life

Yarbrough is married with two children and lives in Franklin, Tennessee.[1]

gollark: The split in what?
gollark: I don't think this substantively addresses what I said.
gollark: It seems that you explicitly suggested it was good because it gave more power to rural people than they would otherwise get based on population.
gollark: According to my badness determination metrics.
gollark: What I am saying is that deliberately designing an electoral system and then messing with it so that a particular group consistently gets outsized amounts of power is bad, and that it isn't particularly justified based on "cultural differences" because there are lots of culturally different groups.

References
  1. "Jon Yarbrough". Forbes. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
  2. "EC Hall of Fame: The Class of 2015". Nashville Post. June 21, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  3. Fontevecchia, Agustino (September 30, 2014). "Forbes 400 Newcomer: From A Single Foosball Table To A Billion-Dollar Gaming Empire". Forbes. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  4. Kennedy, Eleanor (July 8, 2014). "Advice from a man who just sold his company for $1.3 billion". Nashville Business Journal. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
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