This business endeavor, that was placed in a small shack in Marikina, turned out to be a true success. From this flagship company emerged numerous successful ventures that would bring Mr. Tan to enormous fortune. No one has ever thought that the young chemical engineering student who mopped floors to pay for school would become such an affluent man in his country. He actually quit before graduating in order to take a job in a tobacco factory, where he probably got the idea to found his own venture Fortune Tobacco. Married with six children, Lucio Tan now spends his free time with his family or flying helicopters.