Adnan Khashoggi
Age 81 (died 2017) Net Worth $400 Million 2017, was $10 Billion 1982
Born Mecca, Saudi Arabia Citizen Saudi Arabian
Selfmade in Arms Dealer
Education Victoria College, Alexandria , Egypt
Dropped out of University at age 25 to pursue business full time
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This is URL of Adnan Khashoggi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnvchqAOk0
This is picture of his father Muhammed Khashoggi
who was from Turkey and was once the personal doctor of King Saud or Ibn Saud
He is famous for throwing parties
In 1980, he paid a record $874 Million to divorce his first wife
He made his first fortune at the age of 25 as a broker for Kensworth Truck to construction firm in Saudi Arabia
Ronald Perelman
Age 75 Net Worth $10 Billion (July 2018)
Born Greensboro, North Carolina US Citizen US
Selfmade in Leveraged Investment Founded MaCarthur and Forbes in 1980
Education BA and MBA University of Pennsylvania Wharton
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This is my youtube link to Ronald Perelman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHbxEQkQ0kM
He is most famous as leveraged buyer of Revlon
He borrowed $2.9 Billion from Michael Milken in 1993
He has since own Revlon for more than 25 years
He also owns about 60 companies, another famous company he bought was Marvel Comics
David E Shaw
Age 67 Net Worth $6.2 Billion
Born US Citizen US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, founded DE Shaw Hedge Fund 1988
Education BS Mathematics UC San Diego 1972
MS and PhD Stanford University 1980
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJcEQSONRk
He is most famous for being the Father of Fast Quant
He is also famous because 3 other selfmade billionaires once worked for him at DE Shaw
These three are
(1) Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon and in 2018, the richest man on earth
(2) John Overdeck and (3) David Siegel , co-founder of 2 Signma Hedge Fund
In 2002, at age 51, he quit full time CEO of his own hedge fund and became full time researcher of computational biochemistry by founding his own research firm DE Shaw Research
Rocco Commisso
Age 68 Net Worth $4.4 Billion (2018)
Born Calabria Italy Citizen US
Selfmade in Cable TV, founded Mediacom in 1995
Education BS Industrial Engineering Columbia University
MBA Columbia University
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Born in Southern Italy
Here is my youtube linke to Rocco Commisso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzUEFZxH1D4
He founed Mediacom in the basement of his son with his son in 1995
Before that he worked as pizza delivery in 1963 at age 14
and he started a discotheque in his 20s
He was kind of an old enterpreneur, he discovered his passion (Cable TV) at the age of 36 and he founded his company Mediacom at age 46
His entry or key to the American dream was soccer
He was offered a full scholarhsip (tuition, room and board) in 1967 to Columbia University
In July 2018, he is negotiating to buy one of Italy's most famous soccer club AC Milan
Strive Masiyiwa
Age 57 Net Worth $1.9 Billion
Born Zimbabwe Citizen Zimbabwe
Selfmade in Telecom founded Econet in 1993
Education: BS Electrical Engineering University of Wales
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8xV6ZhqQY
In 1993, he founded Mobile Phone Econet. After 5 years of litigation against the government monopoly, he won
Amazing, how he made built a successful multinational corporation against the background of tanks and Mugabe
and hyperinflation
Strive Masiyiwa is Zimbabwe's first and only selfmade billionaire.
Binod Chaudhary
Age 63 Net Worth $1.5 Billion
Born Katmandu Nepal Citizen Nepal
Selfmade in Noodles, Hotels and Conglomerate founded Chaurhary Group in 1968
Education High School
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This is my youtube linke to Binod Chaudhary
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=E8JfTFCnnLY
He made his first fortune in Instant Noodles
In 2015, he became Nepal's first and only selfmade billionaire with business interest in 3 continents
Perhaps most amazing, he made his fortune while there were 22 change of government in 26 years in Nepal. The picture below is the Maoist Insurgency
Ben Horowitz
Age 52 Net Worth $3.2 Billion
Born London, England Citizen US
Selfmade in Venture Capitalist, co-founded Andreessen-Horowitz in 2009
Education BS Computer Science Columbia University
MS Computer Science UCLA
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He is a rapper, the only rapper selfmade billionaires
Here is my youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=ca5y8UGd2HA
This is the first company he led as CEO , LoudCloud
LoudCloud is the world's first CLOUD company
He made his first fortune when he sold LoudCloud to HP for $1.6 Billion in 2007
In 2009, they co-founded a very successful Venture Capitalist Firm Andreessen Horowitz
Here is a picture of the two co-founders
Here is one of his most famous quotes
I cried like a baby
