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Ken Xie & family occupe actuellement le rang #271 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $12.1 B (-$51 sur 24h).
Ken Xie is the cofounder and CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm that offers firewalls, cloud security and other services to businesses.
The son of two Chinese academics, Xie's parents hoped that he would become a professor and sent him to Stanford University to study engineering.
Xie became interested in entrepreneurship while at Stanford, founding his first company, a software firewall business named SIS, in 1993.
He started another cybersecurity firm, NetScreen, three years later, before founding Fortinet with brother Michael Xie in 2000.
The California-based company, which went public on the Nasdaq in 2009, reported $6.8 billion in 2025 revenue. Ken owns more than 8% of Fortinet.