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People are always obsessed with earning money and becoming their own boss. They all have dreams to be rich enough to get everything they want. There are some people who once lived with the same mentality and hustled everyday to do something great.
The bravery to never give up and the idea of winning over life has helped them come so far. Learning from their failure and believing in themselves have made them achieve their goals in life.
These people are today declared and given the title in the list of top 10 richest persons in the world.
1. Jeff Bezos
The first person in our list of top “10 richest persons in the world” is Jeff Bezos. He was born in the year of 1964 on 12th of January in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He is an American business magnate, media proprietor and also an investor. Jeff is the founder and the CEO of his company Amazon.com which was started in 1994 in the Garage of his house in Seattle which started to sell out books.
His online book store was earlier named as Cadabra which later was renamed as Amazon after the Amazon River in South America. Today it is the world’s largest retailing company.
Currently his net worth is estimated to be around $202 billion.
2. Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault was born on 5th of March in the year of 1949 in France. He is a french Investor, business magnate and art collector besides being the chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moet Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, which is the world’s largest luxury goods company.
Some of the other businesses that he owns include brands like Marc Jacobs, Sephora and others. He also has made his stake in Christian Dior SE, which is one of the major sources of his income.
Besides that, his art collections include the masterpieces by Picasso, Yves klein, Henry Moore and others. This centibillionaire’s total net worth is estimated to be around USD 196 Billions.
3. Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III or Bill Gates is another American business magnate that we all have heard of. He was born on the 28th of October in the year 1955 in Seattle, Washington.
Bill Gates is a software developer, philanthropist, investor, and also author by profession. He is the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation besides his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Microsoft is known to be one of the largest software companies in the whole world that also produces personal computers, publishes books via Microsoft press, sells video game systems, and many more.
Being a philanthropist he has two famous organizations of his own named William H Gates Foundation and The Gates learning foundation. The total net worth of Bill Gates is estimated to be around $ 145 billion.
4. Elon Musk
Elon Musk, an entrepreneur and a business magnate by profession was born in Pretoria in South Africa. He is the founder, CEO, and chief engineer at a company called SpaceX.
Besides that, he is an early-stage investor, CEO, and founder of the Boring Company and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. His company “The Boring Company” manufactures boring machines that are used in drilling tunnels for underground public transportation systems.
He is also the founder of X.com which is now known as Paypal which was later sold to another company. The total net worth of Elon Musk is calculated to be around $172 billion.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
The founder of the social media platform and also one of the richest persons in the world is Mark Zuckerberg. Currently, he is the chairman, controlling shareholder, and CEO of Facebook that has more than 2.5 billion active users from all across the world.
Being an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and American media magnate, his total net worth is estimated to be around $ 123 billion. Besides Facebook, he also created a file-sharing service called Wirehog, internet access through the project internet.org, and more.
They also founded a charity called Chan Zuckerberg initiative that seeks to leverage societal ills and focuses on improving factors like quality of education, housing affordability, and more.
6. Warren Buffett
Another richest person in the world, who is a business magnate by profession and philanthropist is Warren Buffett. He is the chairman and the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren bought his first shares in the textiles company which is Berkshire Hathaway which later made him the majority shareholder. Later the company was expanded in the fields of insurance and others.
Warren Buffett has also been titled as the Oracle of Omaha because of his fortune which is estimated to be around $100 billion. Being a philanthropist has made him notable as most of his incomes are given away through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
7. Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison, born in New York is an American business magnate and an investor too. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer of the Oracle Corporation.
Larry founded his software development laboratories and later founded Oracle which is the first commercial relational database program. His company Oracle is the second-largest one, which provides different types of cloud computing programs and software including Java and Linux.
He was also listed as the 9th richest person in the USA by Bloomberg Billionaire Index. Besides that, he is also the owner of the 41st largest island in the US called Lanai.
His net worth is estimated to be $ 90 billion.
8. Larry Page
Larry Page is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur by profession whose net worth is estimated to be around $ 111 billion.
He is the co-founder of Google, Alphabet inc. and co-creator of Page rank. Google is one of the largest search engines in the world which later expanded by purchasing YouTube.
He is also an investor in Tesla Motors and has invested in renewable energy technology too.
9. Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Google and also the co-founders of Alphabet which is Google’s parent company besides Larry Page.
Google is one of the largest search engines in the world and offers other online tools as well like Google workplaces, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and more. His total net worth is estimated to be around $108 billion.
10. Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani is India’s richest man and also ranks in the list of top 10 richest people in the world. He is a business tycoon and his net worth is estimated to be around $83 billion.
He is the chairman, managing director, and also shareholder of the Reliance industry. Besides Reliance’s company, he also owns the Indian Premier League Franchise called Mumbai Indians and is also the founder of a football league called the Indian Super League which.
Mukesh has also been listed as one of the richest sports owners in the world as per Forbes in the year 2012. These were the top richest people from all over the world who have managed to keep their names maintained in the list beating all the odds.
