Wang Jianlin
Age 62  Net Worth  $33 Billion
Born China    Citizen  China
Self-made in Real Estate, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism


Here is Mr Wang, a very handsome man and a fantastic singer 

Here is the Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18epD6BFjIk

He spent 16 years in the Chinese Border as a soldier 

Wang is in the picture.  Hint: the man with the hat with the star is Wang Jianlin. 

In 1988, he founded Wanda Dalien Group 


By 1989, he became millionaires by taking over a bankrupt state enterprise 


Since then he built more than 100 shopping mallls in China

In 2012, he bought AMC, the largest movie chain in the US

In 2013, he built the world's largest movie studio "Oriental Movie Metropolis" in Qingdao China

Question to explore: 
How much education is needed to become a self-made billionaires?

The answer is: not much

In this youtube episode 0101, I listed 17 self-made billionaires who have high-school or less education

Here is the URL 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHMwpyZYSo4

Example 1: Amancio Ortega:  Richest Man in Europe from Spain

He dropped out of school at age 14

Example 2: Li Kashing:  Richest Man in Asia for past 10 years

He started as a refugee in Hong Kong. 

He dropped out of school at age 14 too

Example 3:  Zhou Qunfei, currently richest woman self-made billionaires in the world

She dopped out of school at age 16 to become a migrant worker at Shenzhen 

---  Other famous examples 

Example 4: Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA
He never went to high school.    He is the richest man in Sweden and one of the richest man in Europe 

Example 5:  Karl Albrecht
When he died in 2014, he was the richest German self-made billionaires

He never went to high school 

Conclusion: It does not take a lot of schooling to become a self-made billionaire. 

The five examples I gave are among the richest in the world
They average $40 Billlion

They are not just ordinary self-made billionaires.

Francois Pinault 
Age 81    Net Worth $21B 
Born France  Citizen French 
Self-made in Corporate Raider of Luxury Brand

Francois Pinault is the richest Self-made Billionaires in France.
Amazingly he dropped out of school at the age of 11.  He was also born in a small village of a few hundred inhabitants

This is my youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x20PHp9Frtk

 

His most famous investment is Gucci, this he fought bitterly with Bernard Arnault (owner of LVMH) for more than 5 years 

When he was 69, he transfer his business to his son, Francois-Henri Pinault.  Here is picture of Henri.

Henri changed the name of his company from PPP to Kering


Since retiring, he created new Museum such as Palazzo Grassi in Venice

I looked up the meaning of Grassi, it means "fat" in Italy. 



He has the world's largest collection of contemporary arts. 

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal 
Richest Arab Self-made Billionaire 

 

Here is the Youtube Link of my video 0097 on Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ns3B3HOSI

Age 62   Net Worth  $18 Billion
Citizen  Saudi Arabia    Born Saudi Arabia
Self-made in investment, founded KHI (Kingdom Holding) in 1980

His most famous investment is CitiBank in 1991, which made him more than $8 Billion or 40% of his net worth today.   He owns 5% of Citibank

His second most famous investment is 7% of News Corp 

 

His third most famous investment is Hotel George V in Paris, arguably the Best Hotel in the World

Garrett  Camp
Age 38    Net Worth 6.5 B  
Citizen  Canada    Born Canada
Self-made in eShare Economy, co-founder of Uber in March 2009

3 Reasons to study Garrett Camp
1.  He is the richest Canadian Self-made Billionaires.  He was born in Calgary Canada, as shown on map below.

2.  He is only 38
3.  Uber is one of most disruptive and controversial company

In 2013, he won the Disruptor of the year award. His prize, he now has a hammer to show for it, as seen below

Here is the youtube link to Garrett Camp
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPHdcC9xAE


Uber made him a billionaire, but he started in 2002 with the co-founding of StumbleUpon, a social discovery website.  In 2007, he told StumbleUpon for $75 million and he was already a rich tech multi-millionaire before he co-founded Uber

Today, I have the 18 hour a day club

Self-made Billionaires who work so many hours they hardly sleep

This is my youtube video link on the same topic, please wtach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwuM6jReu8c

Here are the list of winners
#1   Mark Zuckerberg 
      Co-founder of FaceBook
      who reportedly sleep 5 hours a day

#    Aliko Dangote
      Richest Man in Africa
      In his own words, he works at least 18 hours a day, though he does not work on weekend

#3   Leonardo Del Vecchio
       Richest self-made billionaire in Italy
       He is the Eye Wear King of the World
       His son said he always works, if you give him 26 hours a day, he would work 26 hours


See Thoms Edison taking a nap 

#4   Thomas Edison
        Greatest Inventor of All Time
        He reportedly sleeps 3 hours a day

#5   Bill Gates
       Richest Man in the World
       He sleeps 7 hours a day
      But in his teens and twenties, he reportedly program around the clock,
      and sleeps on the desk

Sergey Brin  
Age  43   Net Worth $45.2 Billion
Born  Russia     Citizen   United States
Self-made in Search Engine, co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1997 

here is my link in youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_u6wbEI6mg

here is my link in youtube

 He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973 to Jewish family

He immigrated to United States at age 6.  
here is picture of the Brin Family in Maryland.

His father was a tenured mathmatics professor at the University of Maryland College Park

He co-founded Google with fellow Stanford student Larry Page.  

Google, as we all know, is one of the world's most successful tech company. 

However, not everything Brin touches turned into gold.  His most famous flop -- Google Glass.

 

 H
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Australian Self-made Billionaire

Here is the URL to youtube video on top 5 Australian Self-made Billionaire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTh7uDisaww

Here is the richest Australian Self-made Billionaire, Harry Triguboff.  He is a Jewish immigrant, born in China. Nicknamed "Highrise Harry" because he built apartments.

Number Two is Frank Lowy, also Jewish immigrant from Slovakia.  He built a mall empire called "Westfield".  His overseas properties are worth more than his Australian properties 

Number Three is Hui Wing Mau, born in China and made his fortune in Hong Kong and China. 

Number Four is Lindsay Fox, native Australian whose truck empire spans across Southeast Asia from India to Malaysia. 

Number Five is Andrew Forrest, native Australian whose grandfather and uncle were members of Parliament.  He made his fortune in mining iron. 

Here is how to get this eBook free on all the Australian Self-made Billionaires.

Please write to drpaulchan@gmail.com ,  title "22 Australian Self-made Billionaires"
and I will email you the eBook free

Wishing Everyone Peace and Prosperity
 

Karl Albrecht  
Age 94  (2014 when he died)
Net Worth $29 Billion  
Born Germany        Citizen Germany
Self-made in Grocery 

In 2014, Karl Albrecht was the richest German
Self-made Billionaire


He cofounded ALDI with his brother Theo Albrecht
 

 



 

This is link to my video of Karl Albrecht on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBbE073omr8 

He was born in Essen, Germany in 1920
 






This is the first Karl Albrecht store in Essen Germany
 





 From 1 store, now with 10,000 stores worldwide
 

 ALDI also owned Trader Joe











This is map of the ALDI Grocery Empire.  It now has about 10,000 stores worldwide and is particularly dominant in England and Australia

 Karl Albrecht is one of the most secretive billionaire in the world.
Despite being the Richest German Self-made Billionaire, pictures of him are hard to obtain.

Nobody could blame him or his brother Theo Albrecht (also one of richest German)

In 1971,  Theo Albrecht was kidnapped and later released after paying $2 million US ransom (7 million mark)

This is a picture of Theo Albrecht after he was released from kidnapper