Mike Lazaridis Net Worth
Mike Lazaridis Net Worth is
$3 Million
Mike Lazaridis Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
As a fervent advocate for the power of fundamental science to enhance and transform the planet, he co-founded Quantum Valley Investments in March 2013 with childhood pal and BlackBerry cofounder Douglas Fregin to supply monetary and intellectual capital for the further development and commercialization of breakthroughs in quantum information science. Having an estimated net worth of $US 800 Million (as of June 2011), Lazaridis was rated by Forbes as the 17th most affluent Canadian and 651st on earth.
Produced in Istanbul, Turkey, to Greek parents (especially Pontic) with initial lineage to the isle of Chios. At age 12, he won a prize in the Windsor Public Library for reading every science book in the library. In 1979, he registered in the University of Waterloo in electrical engineering with the alternative in computer science. In 1984, Lazaridis reacted to your request for proposal from General Motors to come up with a network computer management screen system.[ GM given him a contract. He dropped from university that year, just two months before he was scheduled to graduate. The GM contract, a little government grant, as well as financing from Lazaridis’s parents empowered Lazaridis, Mike Barnstijn, and Douglas Fregin to establish Research In Motion. Among the organization ‘s first accomplishments was the development of barcode technology for picture. RIM plowed the gains from that into wireless data transmission research, finally resulting in the debut of the BlackBerry wireless cellular device in 1999, and its own better known variant in 2002.
