| 词条 | Chong Moon Lee |
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Chong Mong Lee (born 1928) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded Diamond Multimedia in 1982. Early lifeLee was born near Seoul in 1928 to a father who traded Chinese herbal medicine.[1] He was the youngest of five children.[2] Leaving school at 12 because the fees were unaffordable, Lee spent his "teenage years repairing fishing boats, mixing and slicing Chinese herbs and cleaning a pawnshop."[2] Despite working, he was able to study and sit for the national college entrance exam, earning a place in university. He graduated and won a Korean government sponsored scholarship to study for a Master's in library science at Vanderbilt University.[2] After his studies in the States, Lee took over the pharmacy shop his brothers had built after his older brother died of a heart attack.[1] Diamond MultimediaHe emigrated to the US in 1970 and ran an export business, selling golf balls to Japan.[1] He founded Diamond Multimedia in 1982 but initially was not successful. The company lost millions and Lee suffered personal setbacks including losing a home and marriage, leading him to contemplate suicide while pointing a gun to his head.[1] Lee would shift the focus of his company to multimedia. An engineer at his company, Hyung Hwe Huh, developed a graphics accelerator that won over Gateway, a new client that would mark the start of a rapid expansion.[1] Diamond was ranked the 17th fastest growing private company in the US in 1993 and had a public offering in 1995.[1] PhilanthropyLee contributed $15 million in 1997 to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|last=Tran|first=De|title=I have seen people after they've made their money...they ended up with a sad lifestyle|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=August 12, 1997}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Chong Moon}}2. ^1 2 {{cite news|last=Kang|first=Cecilia|title=A Philanthropist with a Purpose Model for Civic-Minded Asians|newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=August 12, 2002}} 4 : 1928 births|People from Seoul|American people of Korean descent|Living people |
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