This is my first eBook. It is available at amazon Kindle for 99 cents. You can read it on your iPhone.
The second one is "Zero to Billions", is already published at Kindle too.
Sometime in June, 2015 I will make it available to the public for free.
All I can hope for is someone will buy the book.
Since I am not woman, I feel strange writing about it.
I have a database of over 1,000 self-made billionaires. I chose to start with women, because I need to start somewhere and I need to start small. Somehow the number 36 is a lot more doable than 1,000.
Quiz: Do you know who she is? Tips: one of 36 self-made women billionaires in this book and the richest self-made woman in Africa.
She is still single.
If you don't know who she is, watch more TV.
Quiz: Who is she? Tip: She is the richest self-made woman billionaire in the world in 2014
and she has the same last name as me.
Loved by billions, she is the second British Invasion of the World after the Beatles.
Rosalia Mera of Spain and co-founder of ZARA, She dropped out of school at 11, was richest self-made woman in the world in 2013.
Quiz: Who is she? Tip. She is one of two self-made woman billionaires from Wisconsin. She is co-founder of ABC Supply.
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There are currently 36 Self-made Woman Billionaires in the world. This is a study of how these superwomen made their fortunes? I adopt the 6-W approach. (1) Why do we need to study Self-made billionaires? (2) Where do they come from? Which countries? Are there any immigrants? Are any of them from small towns? (3) Who are they? (4) How did they make their money? Which sector? (5) What did they study? What educational background do they have? Did they attend elite universities? (4) What kind of spousal support did they receive? What kind of family support did they receive? Do all of them get their start-up capital from venture capitalist or from Wall Street? (6) How many of them are married? What is their average age? What is their average number of children? What is their average number of divorce etc?
The biggest surprise I found is “You can have it all”. Besides wealth, this group is also relatively young, with an average age of 58, about 10 years younger than their male counterparts. Not bad, isn’t it? Over 95% of them are married and over 90% have children, with average number of children 2.7. And about one third of them re high school dropouts, high school graduate or college dropouts. A few of them are household names, such as Oprah Winfrey and JK Rowling, Most are little known even in their own countries.
This is the first of a series of book on self-made billionaires. We build museum to house famous artists. We adore great athletes in Olympics and Word Cup. We adore super-entertainers, and we create Nobel Prize for super-scientist and super-politicians. So, my question is: why not celebrate self-made billionaires too? Why not build a pantheon for self-made billionaires?
There are two reasons why I chose woman group to start. The first reason is start-small, a most valuable lesson I learned in start-up failures I have had. The woman group with only 36 members, allows me to start-small. The second reason is my Christian values, which lead me to favor the disadvantaged group (woman, high school, minority) over more established group.
In alphabetical order, the 36 superwomen are:
1. Alakija, Folorunsho (Oil) from Nigeria
2. Aponte, Rafaella (Shipping) from Switzerland
3. Baturina, Elena (Construction) from Russia
4. Benetton, Giuliana (Fashion) from Italy
5. Blakely, Sarah (Fashion) from US
6. Burch, Tory (Fashion) from US
7. Chan, Laiwa (Real Estate) from China
8. Chang, Jin Sook (Fashion) from US
9. Chen, Ningning (Steel) from China
10. Cherng, Peggy (Fast Food) from US
11. Cheung, Yan (Waste Paper) from China
12. Chu Lam-Yiu (Fragrance) from China
13. Coates, Denise (Gambling) from UK
14. Cook, Gayle (Medical Equipment) from US
15. Dai, Weili (Semi-conductor) from US
16. Faulkner, Judy (Health IT) from US
17. Fisher, Doris (Fashion) from US
18. Hawken, Xiu Li (Real Estate) from China
19. He, Qiaonv (Landscape Architecture) from China
20. Hendricks, Diane (Roofing) from US
21. Holmes, Elizabeth (Blood Testing) from US
22. Ilitch, Marian (Fast Food) from US
23. Lei, Jufang (Traditional Medicine) from China
24. Liu, Xiaomeng (Electronic Retail) from China
25. Love, Judy (Truck Stop Convenience Store) from US
26. Mazumdar-Shaw, Kiran (Biotech) from India
27. Perkins. Mary (Eye Care) from UK
28. Resnick, Lynda (Agriculture) from US
29. Rowling, JK (Writer) from UK
30. Sandberg, Cheryl (Social Media) from US
31. Wang, Laichun (Outsourcing) from China
32. Whitman, Meg (eCommerce) from US
33. Winfrey, Oprah (TV) from US
34. Wu, Yajun (Real Estate) from China
35. Zhang, Xin (Real Estate) from China
36. Rosalia Mera (Fashion) from Spain (died August 2013)
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