James Dyson
Age 71 Net Worth $5.3 Billion (Oct 2018)
Cromer, England Citizen UK
Selfmade in Bagless Vacuum founded Dyson in 1983
Education Royal College of Arts , BA
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James Dyson reported made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before he got it right. There were 5,126 failures.
This is my youtube link to James Dyson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkc8qyQDXd0
I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures
This is one of his recent invention
the bladeless Hand Dryer that most of us have used
Latest news, James Dyson reported invested $2 BIllion in a electric car that uses solid state battery technology instead of the current liquid battery.
The new Dyson Electric Car is scheduled to production in 2020.
William Ding
Age 46 Net Worth $13.9 Billion
Born Ningbo, China Citizen China
Selfmade in Internet Game founded Netease in 1997
Education BS Chengdu Science and Engineering Institute 1993
This is a picture of William Ding
This is my youtube link to William Ding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_Kf1zWLT8
In 2003, for a brief time, William Ding was the richest man in China. He was only 30.
This is logo of Netease
In recent years, William Ding is famous for starting a high tech pig farm, his goal is to produce 1 million pigs a year
Dan Loeb
Age 56 Net Worth $3.1 Billion
Born Santa Monica, California Citizen US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, founded Three Point in 1995 with $3.4 Billion
Education
BA in Economics Columbia University
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Here is youtube link to Dan Loeb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIHHMxZ8Is
He is a brave Surfer
He practices Bottom-up Value Approach
In 1995, at the age of 34, he founded Third Point
Here is logo of Third Point
Vladimir Yevtushenkov
Age 69 Net Worth $1.5 Billion (2018 September)
Born Solmensk, Russia Citizen Russia
Selfmade in Oil, Telecom, Healthcare founded Sistema Holdings in 1995
Education BS Chemistry 1973
MS Moscow State University
This is a picture of Vladimir Yevtushenkov
This is my youtube link to Vladimir Yevtushenkov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltf4QwOUvbA
At the age of 35, in 1995, he quit his government post to found Sistema Holdings
Later Sistema Holdings went IPO in London Stock Exchange in 2004 and raised $2 Billion
Yevtushenkov would use the $2 Billion to purchase Bashneft Oil from Ural Rakhimov
In 2005, he was placed under house arrest for money laundering
In December, 2017, he was released from house arrest after agreeing to pay $1.8 Billion of Bashneft Oil to Rosneft Oil
Jim Chanos
Age 61 Net Worth $600 Million (Estimated September 2018, he dropped out of Forbes list)
Born Milwaukee, Wisconsin Citizen US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, founded Kynikos Associates in 1985
Education BA in Economics and Political Science Yale University 1980
This is a picture of Jim Chanos
This is my youtube link to Jim Chanos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaITP7dh9k
In 1985, he founded his hedge fund Kynikos with $16 Million from his clients after he was fired as an analyst
Kynikos meaning "Cynics" in Greek. Jim Chanos is Greek.
His most famous shorts are ENRON
in 2001, which also caused the demise of Arthur Anderson (the Big 8 accounting firm)
He is famous for being the Big China Bear in 2013, of which he lost quite a bit of money
Vinnie Viola
Age 61 Net Worth $2.4 Billion
Born Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York City
Citizen US
Selfmade in High Speed Trading, co-founded Virtu Financing with Doug Cifu in 2008
Education
BS West Point , US Military Academy 1977
JD New York Law School, 1983
Here is a picture of Vinnie Viola
His West Point Picture
Here is my youtube link to Vinnie Viola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ48YXh75Y0
His company Virtu Financing, employs only 140 people and reportedly was extremely profitable on a consistent basis. He only had one losing trading days in 6 years before IPO in 2015
Besides High Speed Trading, he also owns the Florida Panthers
and the 2017 Kentucky Derby Winning Horse
Always Dreaming
John Paulson
Age 62 Net Worth $6.5 Billions
Born New York City, US Citizen US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, founded Paulson & Co in 1988
Education BS New York University 1978
MBA Harvard Business School 1980
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This is youtube link to John Paulson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtYA4vg3z_I
He is most famous for having made the Greatest Trade Ever in 2007 shorting the subprime mortgage
He made $20 Billion Profit for the firm, $4 Billion for himself
Prior to that, he was quite obscure
Gregory Zuckerman wrote the book "The Greatest Trade"
Actually, he also suffered the Greatest Collapse, cause after his phenomenal trading sucess from 2007 to 2011, he started to lose money at an alarming rate.
By 2018, 90% of his customers had fleed him, and his asset undermanagement went down from a peak of $38 Billion to $8 Billion
John Paulson also holds the world record for oweing $1.6 Billion Tax
