Ma, Pony Huateng
Age 46   Net Worth $47.8 Billion (Nov 2017)
Born Hainan Island, China   Citizen  China
Selfmade in internet games & instant messaging, 
co-founded Tencents with 4 others 

Education  BS  Shenzhen University 

Here is a picture of Ma Huteng 

Here is my youtube link to Pony Ma (Huateng)
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=Qgy740-oeRM
In 1998, he co-founded Tencents with these 4 
Ma Huateng
Zhang Zhidong
Xu Chenye
Chen Yidan
Zeng Liqing


4 of them are classmates at Shenzhen University

 

In 1995, Pony Ma allegedly was earning $176 a month as a programmer.

Here is the picture of the young Pony Ma

 

Tencents thrives on WeChat , an application used by 98% of China's internet users.   Here is the logo of WeChat.

WeChat is like WhatsApp in US 

As of November 21, 2017, Pony Ma is the Richest Man in China and the Richest Man in Asia, surpassing Jack Ma of Alibaba, even though Alibaba just has had a stellar year

Here is a picture of the Two Ma(s),  Pony Ma and Jack Ma

Roman Abramovich  
Age 51   Net Worth $9.5 Billion
Born  Russia     Citizen  Russian
Selfmade in Steel, Investment  

Education  University Dropout 

Here is a picture of Roman Abramovich 

Here is my youtube link 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYYuaGw8Vk


In his 20s, he dropped out of university and began buying and selling anything , from computers to toys to car tires and made a small fortune 

In his late 20s, he was a protege to Russia's First Oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who is also Jewish

 
Berezovsky and Abramovich helped Yeltsin won re-election against Communist in 1996

In return, Yeltsin arranged to have state oil company Sebneft sold to these two for less than 10% of its real costs.  That is how Roman Abramovich got so rich so young.

Michael Platt 
Age 48     Net Worth $4.5 Billion
Born in Preston, England    Citizen  UK 
Selfmade in Trading 
Co-founded  BlueCrest Capital with William Reeves in 2000

Here is a picture of Michael Platt

Here is a picture of William Reeves , co-founder of BlueCrest

1. 

Here is my youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AanwtDFGgvI


In 2016, he was King of Wall Street.
He earned $1.5 Billion, a co-honor he shared with Jim Simons of Renaissance Technology

In 2001, one year after he co-founded BlueCrest he hired Leda Braga.

Braga is a PhD in Engineering from Imperial College.  Born in Brazil, she was 34 week pregnant when she was hired. 

Braga introduced Automated Trading Algorithm.

Braga became the most successful woman hedge fund manager in history. 

Here is the BlueCrest Capital -- one of the largest hedge fund in Europe and the most successful in 2017, returning 50% net of fees

Carl Icahn  
Age  81   Net Worth $17.2 Billion
Born  Brooklyn, New York     Citizen   US
Selfmade as Corporate Raider or Shareholder Activist 

Education:   BA  Philosophy   Princeton University
                     NYU  Medical School  Dropout

This is picture of Carl  Icahn 

For the past 10 years (2008 to 2017), Icahn has been the second richest man in Wall Street.  Only George Soros was richer.


This is my Youtube link 

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=C3FM_hbV5R8
He started his company  ICahn with a loan from his rich uncle 
M  Eliott Schnall 
who is still alive at age 98 

The loan was $400,000 which Icahn used to purchase a seat at the New York Stock Exchange

Carl Icahn became famous and rich as a corporate raider in the 1980s, his most famous was the takeover of TWA.

For 2 decades he was King Icahn (shareholder activist or corporate raider) 

A very colorful and controversial figure, Icahn was never shy letting his view known to the world , E.g. "Everything is on Sale"

He grew up as only child and went to Princeton University, where he majored in Philosophy

 

Jorge Perez 
Age 68    Net Worth $3.0 Billion
Born  Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1949
Citizen  United States

Selfmade in Real Estate, co-founded Related Group in 1979 

Education:  BA   CW Post  summa cum laude
                   Master in Urban Planning   University of Michigan

Here is a picture of Jorge Perez, whose parents were Cuban Refugee who lost everything in the 1960s.



Here is my Youtube link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qn2zI86GwM

In 1979, he co-founded his company The Related Group with Stephen Ross

 

 

Jorge Perez was a major Democratic fund raiser for President Bill Clinton

He got along fine with all US President, he built the Trump Holloywood in Miami, Florida

Matsushita Konosuke  
Age 93 (when he died in 2006) 
Net Worth  $3 Billions

Born  Japan   Citizen  Japan 
Education: Never went to High School 

Here is picture of Matsushita Konosuke
He produced 14,000 Electric Products

And Matsushita had almost no schooling.  At age 9, he was an orphan and started working.  Here is his childhood picture

Here is youtube link 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEnCWFnIRTQ
He is an inventor.  Here are the one of 2 things he invented in 1918

He is known in Japan as "God of Management" 

His most important contribution:  social responsibility of his company

and that applies not only to Japan but other countries 

His 2 most famous brands are 
(1)  National 
(2)  Panasonic 

 

Donald Bren  
Age 85   Net Worth  $16.3  Billion
Born Los Angeles, US    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Real Estate, founded  Irvine Company in 1977

This is picture of Donald Bren 

In 1956, he was National Alpine Ski Championships US

 This is my youtube link 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eohYfE6yEtA

He is the Richest Real Estate Self-made Billionaire in the US in 2017



 







He made 99% of his wealth from Irvine Company, which he founded in 1977

Education  University of Washington

He was on ski scholarship at UW, and almost made the 1956 US Olympic Ski Team had it 

Donald Bren's father is Milton H Bren, a successful Jewish movie producer in Hollywood

Donald Bren is being sued $131 Million by his 2 children and a girlfriend called Jennifer Gold