Top 10 Weathly Persons in the World

JEFF BEZOS

Bezos is the founder of Amazon, a major online retailer. A Seattle-based company sells electronics, furniture, and other products through its flagship website. It also manages the Whole Foods food chain and provides cloud computing and streaming services. Amazon had $ 386 billion in revenue by 2020.

 

Bezos owns about 11% of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, according to the SEC's February 2021. It owns space exploration company Blue Origin, which includes Bloomberg's investment costs.

 

Determining Blue Origin ratings is difficult because of its unique strategy, and Bezos is the only shareholder with no visible marketing intent, according to Chad Anderson, CEO of venture fund Angel Angels. The director of Blue Origin said at a space conference in Washington in 2014 that the millionaire was investing in "at least $ 500 million," which is calculated to be equivalent to 13 years starting in 2001, the year Blue Origin was formed.

 

Bezos said in April 2017 he was supporting the business by selling "about $ 1 billion a year in Amazon stock." That amount is deducted from the proceeds of the sale of his known shares from 2014 and was divided into Blue Origin funds. Since 2002, it has sold nearly $ 20 billion shares of Amazon, according to Tom Teotia Data analysis.

 

ELON MUSK

Musk was born to a South African father and a Canadian mother. Demonstrated first computer and business talent. In 12 years, he made a video game and sold it in a computer magazine. In 1988, after obtaining a Canadian passport, Musk left South Africa because he did not intend to support apartheid through forced military service and wanted greater economic opportunities available in the United States.

 

Musk studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and in 1992 moved on to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he earned a bachelor's degree in physics and economics in 1997. He enrolled in a graduate school of physics at Stanford University in California. Still, He dropped out just two days later because he felt the Internet had more power to change society than a physics career. In 1995 he founded Zip2, a company that provided maps and business directions to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by computer producer Compaq for $ 307 million, and Musk then founded an online financial services company, X.com, which later became PayPal, which specialized in online money transfer. An online auction eBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.

 

 

BERNARD ARNAULT

Arnault graduated with a degree in engineering from the molecule Polytechnique in Paris. In 1971 he managed his father's construction company Ferret-Savinel. He changed the company name to Férinel Inc. and drew his attention to real estate eight years later.

 

With her $ 15 million, Arnault, and Antoine Bernheim, French bank partner Lazard Frères and Co, raised the $ 80 million needed to buy Boussac Saint-Frères, a dilapidated textile company owned by Christian Dior. Then in 1987, Arnault was invited to invest in LVMH (Louis Vuitton) by the company's chairman, Henri Racamier. Investing in partnership with Guinness PLC, Arnault fired Racamier in 1990 and began sweeping several fashion companies in the LVMH herd: Christian Lacroix, Givenchy, and Kenzo; leather goods companies Loewe, Céline, and Berluti; jewelry Fred Joailler; the DFS team (the largest unemployed chain in the world); and beauty merchant Sephora.

 

BILL GATES

Entrepreneur and entrepreneur Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen have established and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, using new technologies, smart business strategies, and aggressive business strategies. By doing so, Gates became one of the richest men on earth. In February 2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down as Microsoft Chairman to focus on his charitable work, his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

Gates was born William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates grew up in a middle-class family with his older sister, Kristianne, and younger sister, Libby. Their father, William H. Gates Sr., was a promising student, if shy, when he met his future wife, Mary Maxwell. He was an athlete, graduating from the University of Washington, involved in student affairs and leadership.

 

The Gates family situation was warm and close, and all three children were encouraged to compete and strive for excellence. Gates showed the first signs of competition when they assembled family sports games at their summer home in Puget Sound. He also enjoyed playing board games (Danger was his favorite) and did well at Monopoly.

 

MARK ZUCKERBERG

Mark Zuckerberg, chairman, CEO, and co-founder of social networking site Facebook. He is the 5th richest person globally, with a total value of US $ 50 billion.

Zuckerberg is out of Harvard and has been a program project since his childhood days. In January 2004, Mark wrote a comprehensive code to create a Facebook site that was first Facebook. The site was officially launched on February 4, 2004. However, there were many disputes between the founders depending on their involvement during Facebook's development. After finally resolving several million-dollar lawsuits, Mark now owns a 28.2% stake in the company.

 

Zuckerberg married his longtime college friend Priscilla Chan in 2012 and, over the years, has been involved in several charitable activities, including donating 99% of Facebook shares worth US $ 45 billion to the Chan-Zuckerberg program, which focuses on health and education for the poor.

 

WARREN BUFFETT

Warren Edward Buffett was born August 30, 1930, to his mother Leila and father Howard, a former Congressman. The second oldest, he had two sisters and showed great financial prowess and business at a very young age. His acquaintances recount his mysterious ability to count numbers from his own head - featuring Warren still astonishing his business colleagues even today.

 

Warren Edward Buffett was born August 30, 1930, to his mother Leila and father Howard, a former Congressman. The second oldest, he had two sisters and showed great financial prowess and business at a very young age. His acquaintances recount his mysterious ability to count numbers from his own head - featuring Warren still astonishing his business colleagues today.

 

In 1947, Warren Buffett graduated from high school at the age of 17. It was not his intention to go to college. His father had other plans for him and urged his son to go to Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

LARRY ELLISON

Larry Ellison, fully Lawrence Joseph Ellison, (born August 17, 1944, New York City, New York, U.S.), is an American businessman and businessman who was the founder and chief executive (1977-2014) of the software company Oracle Corporation.

 

Her mother, Florence Spellman, was a 19-year-old single parent. After suffering nine months of pneumonia, she sent him to Chicago to live with her aunt and uncle, Lillian and Louis Ellison, who took the baby. Larry then went to the University of Chicago in 1966. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1962 but resigned in 1964 shortly after Lillian's death; he had been very close to his adoptive mother but had a very difficult relationship with Louis, who often told him he would never be anything.

 

He moved to California and spent the next several years as a computer developer for various companies. Starting in 1973, he worked for Ampex's electronic company, where he met his colleague Ed Oates and was directed by Bob Miner. Ellison left Ampex in 1976 and later joined the Precision Instruments (later Omex), where he served as president of research and development.

 

LARRY PAGE

Larry Page is an Internet entrepreneur who founded Google Inc and Sergey Brin in 1998. In 2015, Page became CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc.

 

After graduating from the University of Michigan, he joined Stanford University in his Ph.D., where he met Sergey Brin in 1995. Larry Page was struck by the idea of ​​downloading the entire web. From there, he began to rate web pages with their incoming links. Soon, the two began working together on a search engine they called BackRub. In September 1997, they registered the Google.com domain for the purpose of organizing global data under a single umbrella.

 

Page was the CEO of Google until 2001 when Eric Schmidt was brought in to lead the company. It is currently ranked 12th on the Forbes billion list, with a total value of $ 37.4 billion.

 

In addition to every type of product called Google, Page and Brin came up with the idea of ​​Google Doodle after a funny episode. In 1998, the two drew a stick after Google’s second ‘o’, symbolizing the message that they are no longer in the Burning Man festival office, and as a result, Google Doodles was born.

 

SERGEY BRIN

Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and businessman. Google became the world's most popular search engine after its launch in 1998, with its impressive success transforming its billion-dollar partners. Brin and Page later became president and CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, before stepping down in December 2019.

 

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on 21 Aug 1973 in Moscow. The son of a Soviet economist, Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape the persecution of the Jews in 1979. After graduating with a degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland in College Park, Brin entered Stanford University, where he met Larry Page. Both students were studying for a doctorate in computer science.

 

They named the search engine Google after the statistical name "googol," 1 followed by 100 zeros, to indicate their work of arranging a large amount of information available online.

 

After raising $ 1 million from family, friends and other investors, the two started the company in 1998. Headquartered in central Silicon Valley, California, Google held its first offering in August 2004, bringing Brin and Page into the billions. Google has become the world's most popular search engine, gaining over one billion searches a day in 2016.

 

MUKESH DHIRUBHAI AMBANI

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is a major Indian businessman, currently chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries - the country's largest private company. Reliance is also one of the largest private companies in the world.

 

Mukesh is a shareholder in the company. According to Forbes, his company's largest oil and gas company is $ 51 billion (revenue). As of 2016, he had held the richest man in India on a magazine list for ten years.

 

His house in Mumbai is known as Antila and is worth about $ 1 billion. The residence is a 27-story building and has facilities such as a health club, dance studio, ballroom, tourist rooms, multi lounge, 50-seat lounge, high garden, three helipads and underground parking for 160 cars.

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