Top 5 Richest

Top 5 richest

In this article, we are going to tell you about the top five richest people on earth. These billionaires own many companies and their wealth keeps increasing day by day. The question is how much wealth does a billionaire possess? We will try to give you an insight into his life and work, as well as some interesting data on it. Read more below!

5th. Mark Cuban

As one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America, he was a successful businessman before becoming a professional basketball player for his native city of Miami. He has become a prominent philanthropist after joining the board of Netflix in 2013. His net worth has increased from $4.1 million in 2016 to $33.8 billion in 2018. According to Forbes, he owns 29.9% of Microsoft stock, which is the fifth-largest investor in Facebook’s stock. As a sports agent, he bought Michael Jordan for $14.7 million, but later sold him to Jerry West after just three months. At the same time, he helped with purchasing Nike and launched the “Space Jam” franchise in 1980. Today, he also runs the Los Angeles Lakers baseball team and has been seen playing football in two Super Bowls with different teams.

4th. Larry Johnson

He is known for being one of the first African-Americans to play a video game at Atari center in 1981 and was a co-founder of Game Boy. A long-time member of the NBA Hall of Fame, it was Larry who brought his career to Hollywood after signing a contract with NBC Television. Due to not having any endorsement deals on his image, he went alone after buying the rights to his name to be used in various movies and commercials starting 1959 till 1960. With millions of fans and sponsorships, LJB launched both games like Superman and Jumanji.

3th. Elon Musk

The CEO of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and Neuralink, is worth over $50 billion. If you have heard about the great inventions he invented, there is no information about him. He started building rockets for space exploration in 2002, but was suspended from using them for four years due to safety concerns. Elon received numerous awards like Martin Luther King Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. In 2017, when asked for a list of his 100 best inventions, Musk declared that they would all be included in the annual list and mentioned that he had made the discovery of new dimensions in science.

2nd. Warren Buffett

He was born in 1901 and raised in Michigan. After graduating from Indiana University, he began working for Western Electric Company but later joined General Electric, whereby in 1897 he held two positions up to 1910. During 1912, he became financial advisor to President Grover Cleveland, then served as president of US Steel Co. and president of National City Bank until 1933. When World War I broke out, Buffett joined the company he served as president and took charge of other operations. He was elected to Congress in 1920 as a New York representative. Three years later, he was appointed chairman of Union Pacific Railroad. Later, he headed IBM, then became chairman of Pepsi. Despite making many acquisitions, the overall success of the corporation never made it in the history books. From 1929 to 1966 he remained CEO, again in 1967, and in 1969 retired from his position. On October 1, 1971, Berkshire Hathaway (now called Pearson) acquired Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated. After this, he moved back to the United States and continued to hold these posts for a while, until 1976, when he became chairman of Sun Oil.

[1]. Mark Zuckerberg

This guy did not have any formal education! But he is now rich enough to buy another Harvard, and there was nobody there when he found out! This was created when Facebook was founded in 2004. By 2009 itself, the total number of users had reached 500 million. Since then, he invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and even opened his own social network Instagram in 2012. Now, under the leadership of Jeff Jenner, he can claim to be one of the wealthiest men in the world. For a little over $50 billion, he owns 7.6 million shares of Facebook, which means over 95%. Of course, by owning such huge amount of shares, he has made himself very vulnerable and dependent on his investors. So the question remains, is he still able to control Zuckerberg shares?

These billionaires have made their way through the economic struggle. They also believe that technology might have to make changes that could help us overcome poverty, inequality and discrimination. So let’s look at the richest people in tech of 2019 and give a glimpse into their lives!