Category: Biographies

Originally published 2007, part of a series I did for a biography website. Can’t even remember who now, but it’s long gone.

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His full title is “Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, 29th Sultan of Brunei”, and he is ranked among the wealthiest billionaires in the world, with a net worth of $20 billion USD. He is the total controller of the finances of the Nation-State of Brunei. His holdings are vast, including the assets of Brunei Shell Petroleum. Basically every drop of petroleum pumped out of the ground or refined within the border of Brunei belongs to him.

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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.

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David Thomson is among the richest people in the world, with a net worth approaching $25 billion USD. He is the current chairman of Thomson Reuters.

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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.

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Carlos Slim Helú has been ranked in the top ten of the world’s richest people, for a while jockeying for top three with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. At the age of 67, Fortune magazine ranked him as the world’s richest man, though afterwards he has slipped to number two with estimated wealth of $60 billion USD. The surprising thing is that he has done so in Mexico, a country not at all known for its wealth and not on anyone’s top list of countries hosting billionaires or even millionaires. As we will find out with Carlos Slim Helú, the surprises just never stop coming.

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