Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Award 001   Runaway Kids Self-made Billionaires (3 co-winners)


Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcKldy4id-k

We have here 3 co-winners
1.   Benjamin Franklin (1706 to 1793)
        Runway kid at age 17,  from Boston to Philadelphia
        Ben Franklin had very little formal education.  He had one year of schooling.



         Ben Franklin became First US Self-made Billionaire

2.  Jesse Livermore
          Runaway kid at age 14,  from Shrewsberry, Massachusetts to Boston, Massachusetts

          Jesse Livermore became the top trader in Wall Street for 30 years, from 1900 to 1929.
          He was a math wizard.  But his father forced him to grow potato instead.
          He ran away from home to escape a life of farming



3.  Chung Ju-Yung  (1915 to 2001)
          He tried to run away from home.  The first time he failed.  The second time he also failed.  The third time, he stole his father's cow, sold the cow, bought a train ticket to Seoul and he never returned.

          One of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.  At one time, his net worth was 16% the GDP of South Korea.  In relative terms, he was easily 10 times richer than Bill Gates.

           He founded Hyundai, which became #1 in the world in shipbuilding and #6 in automobile.

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