Alisher Usmanov
Age 64   Net Worth $15.5 Billions (Sept 2017)
Born Crust, Uzbekistan   Citizen Russian

Here is picture of Alisher Usmanov

He is muslim, born in Chust, Uzbekistan in 1953.

His wife is the famous Irina Viner-Usmanov

She is one of Russia's most famous gymnist coach, Jewish and a good friend of Putin


He made his first fortune making plastic bag. 

He made his second fortune with Metalloinvest

He made his third fortune investing in FaceBook, JD.com and Alibaba. 











His investment buddy is Yuri Milner 

Wealth of Nations 

Book by Adam Smith 

 










Here is my youtube link 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80K160E-RyI

I give here 2 examples of foreign selfmade billionaires who made most of their fortune from the United States.

#1   Jorge Paulo Lemann
Beer King of the World and Richest Brazilian

He owns Budweiser, Miller, Corona, Becks etc

 

He also owns Burger King, Kraft Cheese and Heinz Ketchup

#2   Dilip Shanghvi
Pharma King of the World.   He is the world's richest healthcare selfmade billionaire and also the richest Indian selfmade billionaires. 

He founded Sun Pharma in 1987 

Today, where are the self-made billionaires?

Since they are all over the globe, from Africa to New Zealand,
a better question would be , which countries have the highest concentration of selfmade billionaires?

3 Examples

 



#1  Hong Kong

About 5 out of 1 million




 





#2  Israel 
about 2 out of 1 million


 







#3  United State
About 1.2 out 1 million are selfmadeBillionaires

These have the highest concentration of selfmade billionaires per million population 

I have written 2 eBooks on Hong Kong and Israel 

Shelton Adelson 
King of Casino 
Age   84           Net Worth $35.7 Billion
Born   Dorchester, Massachuetts    Citizen  US

Education:  Dropout of City College of New York 

Selfmade in Casinos 

This is picture,  Sheldon Adelson is in the middle.

Here Sheldon Adelson is a good friend and donor for President Trump

 

This is my Youtube links 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rHJE1F7xX4
This is Venetian Sands Resort, it is twice the size of Pentagon

This is Venetian Sands Macau, it was built on Marsh Water 

The picture below is the finished Venetian Sands Macau.  It was twice as big as Venetian Las Vegas

This is Marina Bay Sands Resort, it was the most expensive resort in the world when it opened in 2010. 

Today's topic is 3 Stage thinker selfmade billionaires
The stage thinkers are of special interests because of 3 reasons
#1  they are among the richest
#2  they are the most influential
#3  We are all interested in the next stage (or the future) 

Stage Thinker 

Let us start with the most famous stage thinker of all time, Karl Marx

These are his stages of human development
 

While Marx is on the far left, 
the selfmade billionaires are on the far right. 

These are among the most famous, the richest and the most influential selfmade billionoare


Carlos Slim was the richest man in the world from 2010 to 2013. He is a stage thinker.  He made of his fortune from telecom, his company Telemex

 

He got his idea of the age of Technology from Alvin Toffler's famous book The Third Wave

 






Next is Jack ma.  In September 2017, Jack Ma is the richest man from China and also the richest man from Asia.

Jack Ma founded Alibaba and he believes we are moving from Era of IT (Information Technology) to Era of DT  (Data Technology) 

The third example of a stage thinker is Steve Jobs.  He thinks the computer is like the bicycle of the mind and will usher humans into a new era of unprecedented prosperity 
 
As example, Steve Jobs says the Condor is the world's most effient animal to move from Point A to Point B.

But with the bicycle human is twice as efficent as the condors

At age 26, the stage theory gave Steve Jobs the courage to fight the all powerful IBM

Are these selfmade billionaires correct?  Well, can you argue with success?


Because if you can see the next stage, you can see the future 

Also, knowing what the next stage is give you two advantages 
#1  it helps you form a VISION 
#2  it helps you form CONVICTION

This is my youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcPvJLaQMqI

Gianluigi and Rafaela Aponte

Age 77    Net Worth $9.3 Billion
Born Italy     Citizen  Switzerland
Selfmade in Shipping, founded  MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) in 1970 

They are important because the Aponte is the richest Swiss selfmade billionaire.

Here is a picture of Gianluigi and Rafaela Aponte

Rafaela Diamant (left) is the daughter of rich Jewish banker.  Her mother would finance MSC's first ship, name MSC Patricia


MSC is run by Famly , like a Famly (sounds Italian, isn't it?)

These are the Aponte Parents with their 2 children : Alexa and Diego Aponte.

In 2014, Diego Aponte took over as President of MSC from his father Gianluigi Aponte. 
Dianluigi was 74 year old then. 

Here is my youtube link 
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=Gym6D2EOtD4


She was vacationing in Naples, Italy.
He was the captain of a ferry ship.  The two fell in love.


In 1970, they founded MSC (Mediterranean Shipping 
 Company) in Naples, Italy









The Aponte couple became very wealthy because MSC is now Second largest container shipping company in the world

This is their ship MSC Oscar, named after their grandson Oscar Aponte.   In 2016, MSC Oscar is the world's largest container ship.










The Aponte also became wealthy because their other company MSC Cruise, is the world's fourth largest Cruise company.

The following is their cruise ship MSC Meraglivia 
In 2015, this is the world's fourth largest Cruise Ship

James Ratcliffe 
Age 65   Net Worth $10.7 Billion
Born Manchester, England
Citizen  UK 

Selfmade in Chemicals, founded INEOS in 1998

Here is a picture of James Ratcliffe

 

James Ratcliffe is quite an adventurer.  He had walked to the North Pole and the South Pole, ran marathon and an avid skier.   Here is a picture of James Ratcliffe without a shirt and a tie.

Here is my youtube link to James Ratcliffe


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fGv2yj6JwQ&t=283s

In 1974, at age 22, he graduated BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Birmingham

His first job was at Esso, the UK Branch of American Oil Giant Exxon

He did an MBA from London Business School

In 1992, at age 35, he was recruited by headhunter to work for US Venture Capitalist firm
Adventist International 

In 1998, at age 40, he founded his company INEOS 







INEOS today has more than 50 plants in 16 countries, and they produce specialty chemicals

 









In 2010 he moved INEOS to Rolle, Swtizerland to save tax.
It is estimated he save more than 100 million pound tax per year

In 2016, he moved INEOS back to London 

His latest venture, he built huge ships to trans LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from US to UK.

He estimated that Shale Gas (from Fracking) cost 1/4 the cost of Natural Gas in UK

His dragon ships 
#1  are built in China,
#2  using German Technology
#3 What is transported is US Liquefied Natural Gas


James Ratcliffe had invested more than $2 Billion dollars on the LNG ship and first delivery was completed in September 2016.