Monday, June 18, 2018

John Doerr
Age 66    Net Worth $8.4 Billion
Born  St Louis, US    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Venture Capital,  Chairman of Kleiner  Perkins Caufield and Byers

Education  BS Electrical Engineer   Rice University 1973
                   MS Electrical Engineer  Rice University 1974
                   Harvard MBA   1976

This is a picture of John Doerr














This is my youtube link to John Doerr 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qo_WMKPCg


This is a list of the companies he helped funded 




















 

John Doerr attributes a lot of his success to his mentor Andy Grove.  John Doerr worked at Intell from 1974 to 1980.














Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Cyrus Poonawalla
Age 77     Net Worth $7.9 Billion
Born Pune, India      Citizen   India
Selfmade in Serum (Vaccine)    founded  Serum Institute of India in 1966

Education:   Brihar Maharastra College of Commerce 

Cyrus Poonawalla is the Vaccine King of the World 





 




It is esitimated that more than half the children in the world have used his vaccines


Here is the company he founded in 1966 , at age 21 




 















Here is my youtube link to Cyrus Poonawalla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDcz6-J1sc

His father was a horse breeder, his first serum was made from horse plasma

The horses were donated from his father's stud farm (after the racing career is over)

According to Poonawalla, his biggest obstacle (or headwind) is the Indian Government and its bureaucracy.  He fought with them for more than 20 years to no avail. 






Eventually, it was accreditation by WHO that led to huge demand of his vaccines overseas that created the huge global success of Serum Institute of India



Monday, June 11, 2018

Chris Wanstrath 
Age  36    Net Worth  $1.4 Billions
Born  Ohio, US       Citizen  US
Selfmade in Software Version Control   co-founded GitHub with Tom Preston-Werner in 2008

Education   Dropout  University of Cincinnati 

Here is a picture of Chris Wansstrath



 






Here is my youtube link to Chris Wanstrath
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=2V_9HdeE0s8


GitHub logo 




 




In June 2018,  GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 Billion 
and Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preston-Werner became overnight billionaires













Here is picture of Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub












Nat Friedman of Microsoft will be the Next CEO of GitHub



Monday, June 4, 2018

Israel Englander
Age 70   Net Worth $6 Billion
Born New York      Citizen  US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, co-founded Millennium with Ronald Shear in 1989

Education    BS  Finance   New York University 1970
                    Dropout  MBA  New York University

Here is a picture of Israel Englander 














Here is my youtube link to Israel Englander 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJJJSzl74w


In 1989, he co-founded Millennium Hedge Fund with Ron Shear

















In 2005, he settled with Eliot Spitzer , then Attorney General of New York, for $180 Million for defrauding investor by trading mutual funds 














In 2017, he was the fifth highest earner on Wall Street, earning $975 Milllions for the year










 
Generally secretive or reclusive, in 2017, he was photoed dancing in a Jewish Wedding