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Billionaires You’Ve Never Heard of #14
How Tomasz Biernacki Built 1600 Supermarkets in 20 Years
Tomasz Biernacki is a Polish billionaire and the richest man in Poland. He is the founder and chairman of Dino, a Polish chain of supermarkets.
Biernacki opened his first store in 1999 and scaled his company to more than 1600 supermarkets in 2021.
He owns 51.16% of Dino and his current net worth is $4.2 billion.
Tomasz Biernacki is a discreet man — to say the least.
He doesn’t give press conferences or interviews.
All pics of him disappeared from the company website, and the website of his foundation (tomaszfoundation.org) no longer exists.
This obsession with anonymity made some wonder if the man actually existed.
We don’t know what he studied, we don’t know if he is married or has children, and we don’t know where he lives exactly.
People in the city he is rumored to inhabit don’t talk, and his friends deny they know him.
When Dino IPOed in 2017, Biernacki didn’t even bother going to the stock exchange. He didn’t show up when the prime minister came to visit one of his distribution centers either.
