It’s scary how fame works. You can strive for it all your life and die forgotten. Or you can live in the Information Age, when you get suddenly famous at a moment when your guard was at its lowest. Here’s to all the people out there who are frantically grappling with a problem and looking to others for help, but all they see are people pointing phones at them.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Warren Buffett is consistently ranked by Forbes magazine in the top-ten richest people on Earth, with a net worth last clocked at $84 billion USD. So, how did he manage that?
Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Sheldon Adelson is currently the fifteenth-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $33 billion USD. This comes as no surprise when you consider that he is in the United States, and his business is casinos. He is the CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation and its subsidiaries. Casinos and resorts currently owned by Sand Corp. include the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, the Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino, and the Sands Expo and Convention Center, all three in Las Vegas, USA, the Sands Macao and the The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, both in Macau, China, and the Sands BethWorks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
His full name is “Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud”, and one could imagine that with a name like that, you’d have to be rich. He is among the richest people in the world with a current net worth of $15 billion USD, and is the second richest man in royalty next to the Sultan of Brunei. Time magazine has called him “the Arabian Warren Buffett.”
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Oleg Deripaska was once the tenth richest billionaire in the world, with a personal net worth around $28 billion USD. He has since been knocked back to $3.3 billion in the wake of the 2007-08 Great Recession. He has also been the richest person in all of Russia and the Chairman of the Board – not the CEO – of United Company RusAl (Russian Aluminum), the world’s largest aluminum company.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Mukesh Ambani is the world’s eighteenth richest person, with an estimated net worth of $44 billion USD.
His father, Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, was himself one of India’s greatest business tycoons and the founder of Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector conglomerate. Born in relative poverty, Dhirajlal worked his way up and built the business empire, which his sons Mukesh and Anil have since taken over to spur on to even greater success.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Michael Dell is among the top 100 richest persons in the world and the founder and CEO of the computer company Dell, Inc. His net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $28 billion USD.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Larry Ellison is currently the fifth-richest billionaire in the world, with a net worth of $54 billion USD. He is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a computer software company which specializes in developing database management systems and other enterprise software products. If this sounds like a dry and boring way to make your fortune, that business is offset by the colorful and extravagant personality behind it.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Lakshmi Mittal has been in the top ten world’s wealthiest persons, with an estimated net worth of $20 billion USD. Hailing from India, he is the most prominent example of the economic miracle that India has experienced in the late 20th and early 21st century.
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Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.
Kushal Pal Singh was at one time in the top ten world’s richest billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $30 billion USD, though recessed back to the single-digit billions in recent years. He is the chairman of DLF Universal Limited, the largest real estate development company in India. He is commonly known to the world as K.P. Singh.
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