Jon Yarbrough


Jon Yarbrough is an American billionaire, the founder of Video Gaming Technologies.

Early life

Jon Yarbrough has a bachelor's degree from Tennessee Technological University. His first entrepreneurial experience was selling with Southwestern Advantage. An aficionado of foosball, he then purchased a foosball table and struck a deal with a bar in Cookeville, Tennessee : if they would store the table for him, he would split the proceeds earned from games played by the bar's clients.

Career

In 1991, Yarbrough founded Video Gaming Technologies. In October 2014, he sold it to the Australian company Aristocrat Leisure for $1.28 billion.
As of September 2015, he had a net worth of US$1.7 billion.

Personal life

Yarbrough is married with two children and lives in Franklin, Tennessee.