Wealth
He’s Worth About $700 Million. And He Says It's ‘Ridiculous’
- Ohno’s net worth rose when Kudan’s stock surged after listing
- But he says his company’s market value ‘doesn’t mean anything’
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When he graduated from university in Japan, Tomohiro Ohno didn’t know what he wanted to do. But he knew what he didn’t want to do, which was work for a traditional Japanese company.
So he ended up founding a firm that’s more space age than staid: Ohno was an early mover into augmented reality. The company he started, Kudan Inc., is developing programs that enable computers to have the equivalent of human eyes, using what Ohno and his industry call computer vision algorithms.