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Dietrich Mateschitz (born 20 May 1944) is an Austrian businessman who co-founded the Red Bull energy drink company and holds 49 percent of the company's shares. Mateschitz's net worth, as of June 2015, is estimated to be $12.2 billion.〔 ==Biography== Mateschitz was born in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria, Austria to a family of Croatian ancestry (). His parents were both primary school teachers and separated when he was a young child.〔''The Soda With Buzz.'' Kerry A. Dolan. Forbes, p. 126, vol. 175, No. 6 (March 28, 2005).〕 Although never married, he has a son.〔 He holds a pilot's licence and enjoys flying a Falcon 900 and a Piper Super Cub.〔 After taking ten years to graduate from the ''Hochschule für Welthandel'' (now Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) with a marketing degree,〔 Mateschitz's first employer was Unilever, where he worked marketing detergents. He subsequently moved to Blendax, the German cosmetics company since bought by Procter & Gamble, where he worked on, among other things, the marketing of Blendax toothpaste.〔''Red Bull CEO takes foot off gas.'' The Nation (Thailand). November 26, 2001.〕 It was as part of his travels for Blendax that he discovered Krating Daeng, the drink that would later become Red Bull.〔 In 1984, he founded Red Bull GmbH 〔''Grabbing the drinks market by the horns''. ''The Sunday Herald''. 7 May 2000.〕 with his Thai partners Chaleo and Chalerm Yoovidhya, with the launch in Austria in 1987.〔 Subsequently, he turned the Red Bull drink into a world market leader among energy drinks. He lives in Fuschl am See, Austria but also owns Laucala Island, off Fiji, which he bought from the Forbes family for £7 million.〔"Big man drives forward energy-packed brand" by Peter Klinger. ''The Times (London)'', 25 February 2006.〕 In 2013 Mateschitz purchased DeepFlight Super Falcon, an extreme $1.7 million submarine for guests at his Laucala Island resort in Fiji.〔(Profile ), expensiveplaces.com; accessed 3 May 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dietrich Mateschitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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