Name: James Dyson
Fortune: Self Made (Technology)
Net Worth: 1 Billion
Industry: Technology
Billionaire World Rank: #746
Book: Against the Odds - An Autobiography (Hardcover)
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From Forbes:
"Mastermind behind the superfashionable and functional Dyson vacuum. Supported in part by his art-teacher wife's salary, the former art student ran through 5,127 prototypes until he perfected the G-Force, a bagless upright that uses a spinning technology to better keep its suction constant. In 1985 licensed it to a Japanese company; then holed up for another seven years to work on next. Introduced in U.K. in 1993 and was immediate hit. U.S. sales quadrupled in 2004 and boosted group's total revenues by 54% to $747 million. Now available in 39 countries. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and eight other museums display his vacuum cleaner. Dyson still spends much of his time in his workshop tinkering with new designs."
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