Richard Goulding

Birthname Richard Goulding Birthplace United Kingdom Profession Tech Mogul Net worth $240,000,000 Source of Wealth Internet (Play.com) Nationality British Country United Kingdom

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Jersey-based play.com is a market leader in online Vat-free DVD sales in the UK. The company is run and largely owned by Goulding and Simon Perrée (qv). It is worth £400m. Sunday Times Rich List valued the stakes held by Goulding and Perrée at £160m each.

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2011

Sale of Asset

Sale of Play.com, the pioneering exploiter of a VAT loophole that made it one of the UK's largest online retailers, to Japanese internet services company Rakuten

$31,660,000

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