Net Worth
Min Kao Net Worth and Salary: Min Kao is an American businessman who has a net worth of $3 billion. Min Kao is probably best known as the co-founder of Garmin Corporation. Min Kao has also worked for many years as a systems analyst at Teledyne Systems and NASA.
Min H. Kao was born in Zhushan, Taiwan in 1949. Gao attended National Taiwan University and received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. He has worked as a systems analyst at Teledyne Systems and conducted research for NASA and the US Army. Kao is best known for co-founding Garmin Corporation with Gary Burrell. Founded in 1989, the company has sold more than 125 million GPS devices. The company name Garmin is a combination of the co-founders’ names. Garmin also makes GPS-enabled fitness, outdoor and aviation products. The company went public in 2000. In 2012, Kao stepped down as Garmin’s CEO, but continued to serve as chairman. Kao donated $17.5 million to the University of Tennessee in 2005 and built the Min Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building. Kao currently lives in Leawood, Kansas.
