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 For everyone who is wondering about the world's leading entrepreneurs who have excelled in their fields with excellence, exceeding success and have marked their names as the richest people on earth then cherish yourself with the short profiles of these successful people. These are not only highly skilled, professional and leading in their game, but are also role models for the youngsters. Knowing the struggle, hard work, and consistency with solid determination has marked them as the most influential people.
1. Jeff Bezos
• Profession: Technology Entrepreneur, Businessman, Philanthropist, Investor
• Birthplace: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
55 years old Jeff Bezos has revolutionized the online marketing and brought tremendous inventions in the way we shop today. He is the founder of Amazon. He started his company back in 1994 in a small place and now with his brilliant and excellence in technological business techniques, he has created a masterpiece. Amazon was started as an online bookstore and with the passage of time, it started streaming videos and audios as well. And now Amazon has become the biggest online company which deals with literally every kind and type of product. Moreover, Bezos extended his wings by launching an aerospace company with the name of Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin launched its first test flight to space in the year 2015 and is now ambitious to send a suborbital human spaceflight this year (2019). Adding more to his dynamic profile, he bought The Washington Post for 250 million dollars in 2013, and he also manages various other investments as well. Overall, his net worth till date is 137 billion dollars and counting, making him the richest person on earth.
2. Bill Gates
• Profession: Software Architect, Programmer, Investor, Businessman, Philanthropist, author, Humanitarian, Entrepreneur
• Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, USA
Bill Gate is the name of success, brilliance, hard work and triumph. With his futuristic vision, determination, and brilliant mind, he has changed the horizon of the world. The modern age of technological advancement, the boom of online marketing, and very first sparks in the success of the internet have his genius mind involved in the process. He is among the richest people on earth with a net worth of more than 96.6 billion dollars as of February 2019.
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft and now works as Technology advisor of his company. Moreover, he is CEO of Cascade Investment, co-chairman of Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation, Chairman of Branded Entertainment Network, Chairman of TerraPower and is a distinguishing member of Berkshire Hathaway.
3. Larry Ellison
• Profession: Investor, Businessman, Entrepreneur
• Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Larry Ellison is 74 years old successful businessman who co-founded the Oracle Corporation in 1977, He studied from the top universities, University of Illinois and University of Chicago, and moved to California for the start of his professional career. He started working for Ampex and with his acute interest on the concept of the relational database given by Edgar F Codd, the idea of founding Oracle came into being. Soon, Oracle surpasses its business and leave behind companies like Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase and with that Ellison marked his name in the list of the richest people in the world. The net worth of Larry Ellison is 59.5 billion dollars as estimated in November 2018.
4. Sergey Brin
• Profession: Iinternet Entrepreneur, Computer Scientist
• Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Sergey Brin is the co-founder of the biggest search engine there is, Google, along with Larry Page. Brin studied from the University of Maryland, College Park and acquired his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from Stanford University. And that is when he met Larry Page, and these two genius minds build the foundation of a web search engine. He is the president of the parent company of Google, Alphabet Inc. With the estimated net worth of over 50.6 billion dollars, 45 years old Brin is the 13th richest person in the world.
5. Elon Musk
• Profession: Entrepreneur, Engineer, Investor
• Birthplace: Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Elon Musk is an internet king who has founded giant companies SpaceX, Paypal, and Tesla Motors. With the net worth of 21.4 billion dollars as estimated in January 2019, he is on the 54th spot on the list of world's richest people, and Forbes has put him as the 25th most influential person of 2018. He is the lead designer of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla, and chairperson of SolarCity. Moreover, he has co-founded Neuralink, Zip2, OpenAl, and founded The Boring company as well. He has too much on his plate right now and filling his appetite with all of it with a full heart.
6. Mark Zuckerburg
• Profession: Technology Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
• Birthplace: White Plains, New York, USA
This list is certainly incomplete without adding the name this, one of the most influential, successful and genius youngster of this era. Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 along with his Harvard roommates Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz as a college project that eventually blasted as the popular social media interaction website globally. Mark Zuckerberg holds majority shares of this company and has a net worth of 62.3 billion dollars as estimated in February 2019. He was the youngest self-made billionaire of 2007 at the young age of 23 years. Interestingly, Mark is the only person below the age of 50 in the list of top 10 richest people.
7. Carlos Slim Helu
• Profession: Entrepreneur, Businessman, Financer
• Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Carlos is the king of Mexican telecommunication industry, apart from being an excellent engineer, a superbly influential philanthropist, and a successful businessman. Carlos is the CEO of Grupo Carso and Telmex, America Movil. With the net worth of 59.2 billion dollars as estimated in November of 2018, he has reserved his place among the top 10 richest people in the world by Forbes, and among the world's leading entrepreneurs. He is 79 years old and is a role model for all youngsters.
By Amna A. for Ezega Blogs
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