Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, real name: 山内 博, born November 7, 1927 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company. He also became the majority owner of the S...
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Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内 溥, Yamauchi Hiroshi, real name: 山内 博, born November 7, 1927 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, joining the company in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002, to be succeeded by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company. He also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, which is now managed by former Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln.
As of 2008, Yamauchi is the third richest person in Japan and 149th richest in the world, having a net worth of approximately $7.8 billion.
Hiroshi was sent to a preparatory school in Kyoto at age twelve and had planned to study law or engineering but World War II disrupted his studies. Since he was too young to fight he was put to work in a military factory. Once the war ended in 1945 Hiroshi went to Waseda University to study...
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