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Marc Samwer
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- tech investments
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Munich
- Organization
- Cofounder at Rocket Internet
- Education
- University of Cologne (LLM)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Zalando2,627,000 shares @ --ZAL-DE
Biography
Marc Samwer and his brothers Alexander and Oliver founded Berlin-based tech incubator Rocket Internet in 2007 and took it public in October 2014.
Together, they own around 44% of Rocket. The company was valued at more than $8 billion at the time of its IPO.
Inspired by the dot-com boom, the Samwers created a German auction site, Alando, in 1999 and sold it to eBay for $43 million after a few months.
That was followed by the creation of mobile phone content provider Jamba!, which was sold to Verisign in 2004 for $273 million.
About
Marc studied law at the University of Cologne.