John Doerr
Age 66    Net Worth $8.4 Billion
Born  St Louis, US    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Venture Capital,  Chairman of Kleiner  Perkins Caufield and Byers

Education  BS Electrical Engineer   Rice University 1973
                   MS Electrical Engineer  Rice University 1974
                   Harvard MBA   1976

This is a picture of John Doerr

This is my youtube link to John Doerr 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1qo_WMKPCg


This is a list of the companies he helped funded 

 

John Doerr attributes a lot of his success to his mentor Andy Grove.  John Doerr worked at Intell from 1974 to 1980.

Cyrus Poonawalla
Age 77     Net Worth $7.9 Billion
Born Pune, India      Citizen   India
Selfmade in Serum (Vaccine)    founded  Serum Institute of India in 1966

Education:   Brihar Maharastra College of Commerce 

Cyrus Poonawalla is the Vaccine King of the World 

 




It is esitimated that more than half the children in the world have used his vaccines


Here is the company he founded in 1966 , at age 21 

 

Here is my youtube link to Cyrus Poonawalla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDcz6-J1sc

His father was a horse breeder, his first serum was made from horse plasma

The horses were donated from his father's stud farm (after the racing career is over)

According to Poonawalla, his biggest obstacle (or headwind) is the Indian Government and its bureaucracy.  He fought with them for more than 20 years to no avail. 

 

Eventually, it was accreditation by WHO that led to huge demand of his vaccines overseas that created the huge global success of Serum Institute of India

Chris Wanstrath 
Age  36    Net Worth  $1.4 Billions
Born  Ohio, US       Citizen  US
Selfmade in Software Version Control   co-founded GitHub with Tom Preston-Werner in 2008

Education   Dropout  University of Cincinnati 

Here is a picture of Chris Wansstrath

 






Here is my youtube link to Chris Wanstrath
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=2V_9HdeE0s8


GitHub logo 

 




In June 2018,  GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 Billion 
and Chris Wanstrath and Tom Preston-Werner became overnight billionaires

Here is picture of Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub

Nat Friedman of Microsoft will be the Next CEO of GitHub

Israel Englander
Age 70   Net Worth $6 Billion
Born New York      Citizen  US
Selfmade in Hedge Fund, co-founded Millennium with Ronald Shear in 1989

Education    BS  Finance   New York University 1970
                    Dropout  MBA  New York University

Here is a picture of Israel Englander 

Here is my youtube link to Israel Englander 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJJJSzl74w


In 1989, he co-founded Millennium Hedge Fund with Ron Shear

In 2005, he settled with Eliot Spitzer , then Attorney General of New York, for $180 Million for defrauding investor by trading mutual funds 

In 2017, he was the fifth highest earner on Wall Street, earning $975 Milllions for the year

 
Generally secretive or reclusive, in 2017, he was photoed dancing in a Jewish Wedding

Michael Kors
Age 58    Net Worth  $1 Billion
Born  Long Island, New York    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Fashion,   founded Michael Kors in 2003

Education:  Dropout 1977  Fashion Institute of Technology, New York 

Here is a picture of Michael Kors 

Here is my youtube link to Michael Kors 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODHHE31tIY


Michael Kors's brand is Accessible Luxury 
(in easier to understand term, affordable Luxury) 

He is the world's first gay selfmade billionaire.  
In 2011, he married his long term partner Lance LePere

In 1997, his company went bankrupt 

In 2013, 2 veteran fashion billionaires invested in his firm 
They are Larry Stroll and Silas Chou 

Takemitsu Takizaki 
Age 72    Net Worth $17.8 Billions (May 2018)
Born Hyogo Prefecture, Japan     Citizen  Japan 
Selfmade in Sensors    founded Keyence in 1974 

Education  Amagasaki Industry High School 

This picture of young Takizaki 

This is my youtube link to Takizaki 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMB1iK_SAbg

These are some of the Keyence products 

This is logo of his company Keyence 

This is headquarter of Keyence in Osaka, Japan 

 
In his headquarters, he decorated fossils everywhere to remind his employees
if you don't change, you will soon die

Hui Ka Yan
Age 59   Net Worth $34.5 Billion (May 2018)
Born  Henan Province China   Citizen  China
Selfmade in Real Estate, founded Evergrande Group in 1996

Here is a picture of Hui Ka Yan

 




Here is my youtube link to Hui Ka Yan 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dBDpM9OYY

He was born to one of the poorest area of China, Henan 

Province, when he was 1 year and 3 month old, his mother died

At the University, he did not have money to pay for books and pay for food.  He survived on 14 Yuans a month or about $2 US a month -- what a feat 

In 2017, the stock price of his company Evergrande rose 400% propelling him to be Richest Man in Asia (for a short time)

 





Strange enough, Hui Ka Yan has built many ghost towns in China 

In 2017, Hui Ka Yan was briefly the Richest Man in Asia