#13Billionaires
PROFILE
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Honorary Chairman, América Móvil
$87B
$4M (0.01%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#9 in the world today
$81.2B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/4/22
• Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu and his family control América Móvil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm.
• With foreign telecom partners, Slim bought a stake in Telmex, Mexico's only phone company, in 1990. Telmex is now part of América Móvil.
• He also owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods, mining and real estate companies and 17% of The New York Times.
• His son-in-law Fernando Romero designed the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, home to Slim's extensive, eclectic art collection.
• Slim and his family hold a 79% stake of Grupo Carso, one of Latin America's largest conglomerates, accounting for over 8% of his fortune.
• Did you know
• Every Sunday his father would give Carlos a 5-peso allowance, requiring him to record his purchases in a ledger.
• Before going into business, Slim taught algebra at UNAM, a university in Mexico City.
• In Their Own Words
• When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.
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#14Billionaires
PROFILE
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family
$72.5B
$422M (0.59%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#14 in the world today
$74.8B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/4/22
• Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal, is the richest woman in the world.
• Bettencourt Meyers and her family own around 33% of L'Oreal stock.
• She has served on L'Oreal's board since 1997 and is chairwoman of the family holding company.
• She became France's reigning L'Oreal heiress in 2017 when her mother Liliane Bettencourt, then the world's richest woman, died at age 94.
• Bettencourt Meyers also serves as the president of her family's philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts.
• Together, L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Meyers family agreed to donate $226 million to repair Notre Dame Cathedral following the April 2019 fire.
• Did you know
• Bettencourt Meyers' inheritance was the subject of a sensational trial in France, in which a man was convicted of manipulating her ailing mother for her fortune.
#15Billionaires
PROFILE
Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder, Meta Platforms
$41.2B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#27 in the world today
$67.3B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with photos of classmates.
• He took Facebook public in May 2012; he now owns about 13% of the company's stock.
• Facebook changed its name to Meta in November 2021 to shift the company's focus to the metaverse.
• In June 2021, a judge dismissed antitrust cases brought by states and the federal government, which could have forced Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.
• In December 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes.
• Did you know
• Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are spending $3 billion in an attempt to end, cure or manage all disease by the year 2100.
• In January 2019, Mark Zuckerberg purchased $59 million worth of waterfront property on Lake Tahoe in California.
• In Their Own Words
• We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today.
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