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Joseph Liemandt

United States 57 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Software
Industry
Technology
Residence
Austin, Texas
Education
Stanford University (Drop Out)
Marital Status
Single

Biography

Joe Liemandt is the founder of ESW Capital, an investment firm that purchases software companies.

ESW Capital has purchased more than 100 small U.S. software companies with a strategy of moving their workforce to foreign freelance workers.

Liemandt is known for founding Trilogy Software, a product and sales configuration software company that was prominent in the 1990s.

He dropped out of Stanford to start Trilogy Software. By age 27, he was on the cover of Forbes magazine.

A few months later, he appeared as the youngest self-made member of the 1996 issue of The Forbes 400, with a $500 million net worth.