Frank Wang – Billionaire

• Frank Wang is the founder and CEO of SZ DJI Technology, a privately held robotics firm in China.
• He founded the company in 2006 from his dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

Wang Tao (Chinese: 汪滔; pinyin: Wāng Tāo; born 1980), also known as Frank Wang, is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur who is the founder (2006) and CEO of DJI, the world’s largest consumer drone company, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. DJI manufactures unmanned and autonomous aerial vehicles, flight controllers, Zenmuse aerial gimbals, Ronin ground gimbals, cameras and FPV Goggles.

Wang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He studied at East China Normal University in Shanghai and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). In 2005, HKUST granted him HK$18,000 (US$2,300) to conduct research and develop a drone, and Wang founded DJI in 2006 from his dorm room.^[2]

DJI is now the world’s largest consumer drone company,^[3] and Wang became Asia’s youngest tech billionaire in 2017.^[2]

Source:

1. forbes
2. wikipedia