THE 10 RICHEST SELFMADE BILLIONAIRES

There was no silver spoon for these business

greats.

A NOTE ABOUT THIS RANKING

Net worth figures came from Forbes real-time rankings on June
4th, 2015.
To be self-made, an American billionaire needed to have a Selfmade ranking of 6 or higher (on a 1 to 10 scale) on Forbes list.
Therefore, not only were many of the Walton family (WalMart) not included, but neither were the Koch brothers, who
inherited their medium size business and turned it into what
it is today.
International candidates were judged as self-made on a
case-by-case basis.

10) LARRY PAGE

Net worth: $29.5 Billion
Age: 42 Years Old
Position: CEO, Google
Page and Sergey Brin founded
Google back in 1998. Before going
public in 2004, he turned over the
reins of the company to Eric
Schmidt. For seven years, Page
learned how to run a multi-billion
dollar company from Schmidt, and
took over once again in 2011.

9) MARK ZUCKERBERG
Net worth: $36.1 billion
Age: 31 years old
Position: CEO, Facebook
Zuckerbergs rise to fame and fortune
has been well documented. He
founded Facebook in his college dorm
room in 2004, and it quickly became
one of the most popular sites on the
Internet. He is expanding the
companys reach with acquisitions of
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus
Rift.

8) MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
Net worth: $37.0 Billion
Age: 73 Years Old
Position: CEO, Bloomberg
When Bloomberg was let go
Salomon Brother in 1981, he used
his severance package to start his
own company. The most ubiquitous
product: an information portal that
gave up-to-date information to
traders. He also served as mayor of
New York City from 2002 to 2013.

7) JEFF BEZOS
Net worth: $38.9 billion
Age: 51 years old
Position: CEO, Amazon
In 1994, Bezos was working on Wall
Street, on a cross country road trip,
when he wrote the business plan for
what became Amazon. While he
builds the empire ever bigger, he
also has private investments in
companies like The Washington
Post.

6)WANG JIANLIN
Net worth: $40.6 Billion
Age: 60 Years Old
Position: CEO, Dalian
Wanda Group
Jianlin has been CEO at Wandaa
real estate developersince 1993.
Over that time frame, it has become
the dominant player in Chinese realestate. Jianlin has also acquired
American properties, such as all
AMC Theatre chains.

Photo: Wanda Group

5) LARRY ELLISON
Net worth: $53.8 billion
Age: 70 years old
Position: Founder, Oracle
Ellison grew up relatively poor in
Chicago. While working at Ampex in
the 1970s, he realized the potential
for relational databases and founded
Oracle. He served as the companys
CEO from its founding until last year.

4) WARREN BUFFETT
Net worth: $69.5 Billion
Age: 84 Years Old
Position: CEO, Berkshire
Hathaway
Buffett started his Buffett Partnership
Ltd. in the 1950s. In the 1960s, his
partnerships bought textile firm
Berkshire Hathaway. The company
would eventually become Buffetts
publicly traded holding firm. He is
often considered to be the greatest
investor ever.

Photo: Insider Monkey

3) CARLOS SLIM
Net worth: $70.9 billion
Age: 75 years old
Position: Chairman, Grupo
Carso
Slim took a similar approach to
building wealth that Buffett tookwith
his holdings falling under his Grupo
Carso business. Most of Slims
successful investments started in the
Mexican telecom business, but have
since expanded into other industries.

2) AMANCIO ORTEGA
Net worth: $72.3 Billion
Age: 79 Years Old
Position: Founder, Inditex
Ortega started in the fashion
business by selling clothing that his
wife made at home. He quickly
expanded to found Zara clothing
stores, which became very popular
in Spain. Inditex now owns Zara, as
well as several other popular
European chains.

Photo: Inditex

1) BILL GATES
Net worth: $79.2 billion
Age: 59 years old
Position: Founder,
Microsoft
Gates made his fortune through
Microsoft and its ubiquitous Windows
and Office Suite. He has long since
given up day-to-day duties at the
company, and now focuses on solving
major global maladies through his Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.

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