Robert Kiyosaki

Robert Kiyosaki is an American author and personal finance educator, best known for Rich Dad Poor Dad, published in 1997. According to Wikipedia, he was born on April 8, 1947, in Hilo, Hawaii, graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, served as a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War and worked in sales at Xerox before becoming a seminar speaker in the 1980s.

His business operates under the Rich Dad brand. Wikipedia describes Cashflow Technologies, founded in 1997, as the holding company for the brand; The Rich Dad Company is the name that appears as seller on richdad.com. Another company, Rich Global LLC, filed for bankruptcy in 2012 (see below).

He publishes on the YouTube channel The Rich Dad Channel, linked from richdad.com, which showed 3.64 million subscribers and about 1,600 videos when read on September 14, 2026. The official site also links an Instagram account (richdadofficial), a Facebook page and the X account @theRealKiyosaki; their follower counts were not recorded.

The Rich Dad Store lists Rich Dad Poor Dad at $18 and the CASHFLOW board game at $89.95. On study.richdad.com the company sells online courses (Real Estate Beginners Course, CASHFLOW Quadrant Course, a money management course), several newsletters and the Rich Dad Crypto Membership. The Rich Dad Poor Dad newsletter checkout page shows $17 per month, billed for 12 months with automatic renewal and a 30-day refund window for that month's fee. Prices for the courses and the crypto membership were not visible on the official pages consulted. A free online version of the CASHFLOW game is available after registration.

For years the live seminars sold under the Rich Dad Education name were not run by his company but by a licensee: Whitney Information Network, later renamed Tigrent and then Legacy Education Alliance. According to Legacy Education Alliance's SEC filings, Rich Dad Operating Company notified it on September 16, 2019, that it would not extend the license, which expired on September 30, 2019. In February 2010, the CBC program Marketplace reported with hidden cameras that a $500 Rich Dad workshop in Canada, run by Whitney, consisted largely of a sales pitch for advanced courses costing $12,000 to $45,000, and that some attendees were encouraged to raise their credit card limits. According to CBC, Kiyosaki said he was unhappy with the complaints about the tactics used at seminars run under his name by a licensee.

Rich Global LLC, one of his companies, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Wyoming in August 2012, after a court awarded The Learning Annex about $23.7 million in a dispute over a share of seminar profits. ABC News (Susanna Kim, October 12, 2012) reported liabilities of about $26 million and assets of $1.8 million, and quoted Rich Dad Co. CEO Mike Sullivan: "The money doesn't exist in that company." Kiyosaki did not file for personal bankruptcy. Slate (Helaine Olen, February 11, 2016) reported that the bankruptcy trustee had sued Kiyosaki and related companies in 2014 in a case filed under seal; the final outcome of that litigation could not be confirmed from public sources. No FTC enforcement action under his name or The Rich Dad Company was found in a site search of ftc.gov on September 14, 2026.