About
IKEA founder who was estimated to be the world's fifth richest man at one time.
Before Fame
He started his entrepreneurial career by buying matches wholesale and re-selling them at modest profits. This later expanded to selling fish, to decorations and more.
Trivia
He named his store IKEA, which was derived from his initials and the first letters of the town he grew up in.
Family Life
He married twice. His second wife died in 2011 from a disease that was kept from the media. He had four children named Peter, Mathias, Jonas and Annika.
Associated With
He was estimated to be worth more than Bill Gates by Swedish papers around the mid-2000s.
