Amar Bose
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Amar Bose Net Worth

Amar Bose was born in the United States in 1929 and began repairing radios in high school after his father's import business was affected by WWII. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT and began researching hi-fi sound. In 1964, he started Bose Corporation and secured contracts with NASA and the U.S. military to improve audio communications. Bose has since become a leader in the audio industry, with products such as iPod docks, surround-sound home entertainment speaker systems, noise-canceling headphones, and VideoWave TV. The company has 126 stores in North America and sales are believed to exceed $2 billion. Bose was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and still wears a nametag around the office like all other employees.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day November 02, 1929
Birth Place United States
Age 91 YEARS OLD
Died On July 12, 2013(2013-07-12) (aged 83)\nWayland, Massachusetts, U.S.
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Alma mater MIT (SB, SM, ScD)
Occupation Engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, founder of Bose Corporation
Spouse(s) Ursula Boltzhauser (widowed) Prema Bose (divorced)
Children Vanu Bose Maya Bose

💰 Net worth: $1 Billion (2024)

Amar Bose, the visionary behind the renowned audio brand Bose, has left an indelible mark on the manufacturing industry in the United States. With his innovative designs and commitment to excellence, he has built a company that has revolutionized the way we experience sound. As a testament to his success, Amar Bose's net worth is projected to reach an impressive $1 billion in 2024. His dedication to quality and his ability to create cutting-edge products that resonate with consumers have undoubtedly contributed to his remarkable financial success.

Biography/Timeline

1920

Bose was born in Philadelphia, PA, to a Bengali Hindu Father, Noni Gopal Bose and an American mother of English and German ancestry, Charlotte. His Father was an Indian freedom revolutionary who, having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled Bengal in the 1920s in order to avoid further persecution by the British colonial police. His mother, Charlotte, is described as an American schoolteacher of French and German ancestry, but Bose described her as "more Bengali than me. She was a vegetarian and deeply interested in Vedanta and Hindu philosophy".

1929

Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American academic and Entrepreneur of Indian descent. An electrical Engineer and sound Engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT's education and research mission.

1950

After graduating from Abington Senior High School in Abington, Pennsylvania, Bose enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Electrical Engineering in the early 1950s. Bose spent a year at Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in Eindhoven, Netherlands; and a year as a Fulbright research student in New Delhi, India, where he met his Future first wife. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT, writing a thesis on non-linear systems under the supervision of Norbert Wiener and Yuk-Wing Lee.

1956

Following graduation, Amar Bose became an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his early years as a professor, Bose bought a high-end stereo speaker system in 1956 and he was disappointed to find that speakers with impressive technical specifications failed to reproduce the realism of a live performance. This would eventually motivate his extensive speaker Technology research, concentrating on key weaknesses in the high-end speaker systems available at the time. His research on acoustics led him to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce, in a domestic setting, the dominantly reflected sound field that characterizes the listening space of the audience in a concert hall. His focus on psychoacoustics later became a hallmark of his company's audio products.

1964

For initial capital to fund his company in 1964, Bose turned to angel Investors, including his MIT thesis advisor and professor, Y. W. Lee. Bose was awarded significant patents in two fields that continue to be important to the Bose Corporation. These patents were in the area of loudspeaker design and non-linear, two-state modulated, Class-D power processing.

1980

Starting in the 1980s, Bose developed an electromagnetic replacement for Automotive shock absorbers, intended to radically improve the performance of Automotive suspension systems, absorbing bumps and road shock while controlling car body motions and sway.

2001

In addition to running his company, Bose remained a professor at MIT until 2001. He earned the Baker Teaching Award in 1963–64, and further teaching awards over the years. The Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching (1989), and later the Junior Bose Award (1995) were established in his honor, to recognize outstanding teaching in the MIT School of Engineering.

2007

In 2007, he was listed in Forbes 400 as the 271st richest man in the world, with a net worth of $1.8 billion. In 2009, he was no longer on the Billionaire list, but returned to the list in 2011, with a net worth of $1.0 billion.

2011

In 2011, Bose donated a majority of the company's non-voting shares to MIT on the condition that the shares never be sold. Because these shares are non-voting, MIT does not participate in operations or governance of Bose Corporation.

2013

Bose died on July 12, 2013 at the age of 83 in Wayland, Massachusetts.

2016

The company Bose founded employed 11,700 people worldwide as of 2016 and produces products for home, car, and professional audio, as well as conducting basic research in acoustics and other fields. Bose never took his company public, and since the company was privately held Bose was able to pursue risky long-term research. In a 2004 interview in Popular Science magazine, he said: "I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But I never went into Business to make money. I went into Business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before."

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