Hiroshi Yamauchi
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Hiroshi Yamauchi (山内溥 ?, Yamauchi Hiroshi) born November 7, 1927 in Kyoto, Japan is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo, beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company, as it currently is. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. He also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, which is now managed by former Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln.
As of 2008, Yamauchi is the richest person in Japan and 149th richest person in the world, having a net worth of approximately $7.8 billion.
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