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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.

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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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 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.

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.

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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