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Rishi Sunak is a British-American businessman and financier, who has since 2012 served as the founder and CEO of Yavin Capital.
Born in Southern England, Sunak studied at Oxford and then at Stanford on a Rhodes scholarship, earning an MBA in 2004. Marrying Stanford classmate Akshata Murty, daughter of Indian tech billionaire Narayana Murthy, Sunak initially worked for Goldman Sachs in London, but settled America in 2008 after a secondment to their New York headquarters. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2014.
In 2012 he confounded venture capital firm Yavin Capital (named after the fictitious home base of the Rebel Alliance in the cult animated series
Star Wars) alongside veteran tech entrepreneur Roelof Botha, the grandson of former South African President Pik Botha. He and his firm quickly gained prominence for being the key investors in the Minitel networking site Samsara, with Sunak's initial $20 million investment growing to over $2 billion within five years. He joined
Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires in 2018.
More recently, Sunak has come under media scrutiny for many for his investment in failed start-ups such as Andromeda Finance - which has since come under criminal investigation - his enthusiasm for private jet usage over short distances and his public opposition to high speed rail. A series of hostile and uncomfortable interviews and public interactions over the 2022-23 period caused him to become a Minitel replica, and he has the distinction of being the person who had lost the most money in history (more than $40bn following the 2022 Minitel Crash).