Chinese name: Jeff Bezos
Foreign name: Jeff Bezos
Aliases: Jeff, Jeff Bezos
Nationality: U.S.-born
Date: January 12, 1964
Age: 57 years old
Law School: Princeton University, USA
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Current value: $191.4 billion,
Forbes Ranking: No.1
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1986, he graduated from Princeton University in the United States and entered FITEL, a high-tech development company in New York, mainly engaged in computer system development. In 1988, he joined Bankers Trust Co on Wall Street as vice president. From 1990 to 1994, together with others, he formed a hedge fund trading management company D.E. Shaw & Co, became Vice President in 1992. The Cadabra Online Bookstore was established on July 16, 1995, which was later renamed Amazon and reopened in July 1995. When the stock went public in May 1997, Amazon became one of the most successful e-commerce sites in the world.
On February 26, 2020, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2020 Hurun Global Rich List", and the deadline for calculating the wealth of entrepreneurs on the list is January 31, 2020. The list shows that Jeff Bezos became the world's richest man for the third consecutive year, with a net worth of 980 billion yuan, down 5%. His ex-wife MacKenzie made the list for the first time with 308 billion yuan, ranking 22nd.
Source of Wealth: Amazon (Internet, Self-Made)
Chinese name: Elon Musk
Foreign name: Elon Musk
Alias: Elon Musk
Nationality: South Africa, Canada, United States
Date of birth: June, 28 1971
Age: 49 years old
Law School: University of Pennsylvania
Position: Tesla, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SolarCity
Current value: $165.7 billion
Forbes Ranking: NO.2
Elon Musk (born 28 June 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital, Tswane) is an entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist. He has triple citizenship of South Africa, Canada and the United States. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, the CEO of Tesla, and the chairman of the board of directors of SolarCity.
Elon Musk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double degree in economics and physics. From 1995 to 2002, Musk and his partners ran three companies, namely the online content publishing software "Zip2", the electronic payment "X.com" and the "PayPal". In June 2002, Musk invested $100 million to found SpaceX, where he became CEO and Chief Technology Officer. In 2004, Musk invested $6.3 million in Tesla Motors as chairman of the company. In 2006, Musk invested $10 million to co-found Sun City, a photovoltaic power generation company. On May 31, 2012, the "Dragon" capsule of Musk's company SpaceX successfully docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth, opening the era of private operation of space transportation. At 4:45 on February 7, 2018, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy carrier rocket was successfully launched for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, and successfully completed the complete recovery of two first-stage booster rockets. On November 18, 2020, Musk was infected with the new crown pneumonia virus after visiting Sweden.
On March 2, 2021, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List", and Musk became the world's richest man for the first time with a wealth of 1.28 trillion yuan. On June 14, Musk decided to sell his last property and rent a house. In October, Musk became the first person in history to break $300 billion. On December 13, Elon Musk was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021.
Source of wealth: Tesla (cars, self-made)
Chinese name: Bernard Arnault
Foreign name: Bernard Arnault
Nationality: French
Date of birth: March, 5 1949
Age: 72 years old
Graduated from: École Polytechnique de Paris, Engineering
Position: President and CEO of LVMH Group
Current value: $164.7 billion
Forbes Ranking: NO.3
Bernard Arnault, president and CEO of the French luxury giant Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton (LVMH), born in France on March 5, 1949, is the godfather of luxury goods in the world, the founder of the LVMH group, and the Napoleon of the boutique world. The LVMH Group, owned by Arnold Holdings, has more than 50 luxury-related brands, including Dior, Givenchy, Fendi, TAG Heuer and more.
On August 10, 2021, LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault was once again crowned the world's richest man.
The head of the world's largest boutique empire, he is elegant in appearance and has been repeatedly named "Best Dressed Man" by fashion magazines. He is calm by nature, even a little reticent, and always very low-key in front of the media. But no one ever doubted bernard as an unfathomable and outstanding entrepreneur. With a smiling posture, he bought and sold brands with ease, and some people described him as "a wolf in a cashmere shirt".
Source of wealth: LVMH Group
Chinese name: Bill Gates
Foreign name: Bill Gates
Alias: William Henry Gates III (full name)
Nationality: United States
Education: Harvard University (dropout)
Date of birth: October 28, 1955
Age: 65 years old
Major achievements: Founder of Microsoft Corporation
Current value: $129.3 billion
Forbes Ranking: NO.4
Bill Gates, full name William Henry Gates III, or Bill or Gates for short. Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA, he is an entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, founder of Microsoft, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (foreign). He was chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft.
Bill Gates began computer programming at the age of 13, entered Harvard University at the age of 18, and founded Microsoft in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen, where Bill Gates served as chairman, CEO, and chief software designer.
Bill Gates became the richest man on the Forbes Global Rich List for 13 consecutive years from 1995 to 2007 and the richest man in the United States for 20 consecutive years. In 2000, Bill Gates founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in 2008 Bill Gates announced that he would donate $58 billion in personal wealth to a charitable foundation, and in 2014 Bill Gates resigned as chairman and returned to the world's richest man. On September 29, 2015, Microsoft founder Gates topped the Forbes list for the 22nd consecutive year with a net worth of $76 billion, and in November 2017, Bill Gates was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In January 2019, he was selected by American Magazine as one of the "Ten Most Influential Thinkers in the World in the Past Decade." On February 26, 2020, with a wealth of 740 billion yuan, it ranked third in the "2020 Hurun Global Rich List". On March 13, 2020, Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft's board.
He enjoys debate, wants to hear different points of view, and always wants to win. But competitiveness and curiosity did not prevent Gates from eventually becoming a humble person. (Kai-Fu Lee)
Gates is a man with a passion for technology and a sense of mission for humanity. He had a lot of wealth, but his own way of life was simple, and this sense of mission was from the heart, not pretended. (Zhang Yaqin commented)
If Gates had sold not software but hamburgers, he would have become the king of the world's burgers. (Buffett Review)
He's a very, very smart guy and loves technology. (Barrett Review)
Bill Gates makes more money than anyone else in human history, and he's trying to give it away. Most people probably spend their money elsewhere, or donate just a little bit and hope that someone else will give them a medal, rather than spending all their time looking for what really works, as Bill Gates did. That was his life's work. (Clinton Review)
Source of wealth: Microsoft
Chinese name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Foreign name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Alias: Mark Zuckerberg
Ethnicity: Jews
Date of birth: May 14, 1984
Age: 36 years old
Law School: Harvard University
Current value: $114 billion
Forbes Ranking: No.5
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, is the founder and CEO of the social networking site Facebook and is known as the "Second Gates." He graduated from exeter school in 2002, founded the social networking site Facebook in 2004, and received an honorary doctorate in law from Harvard University in May 2017.
In 2017, forbes released the 2017 global rich list, Zuckerberg ranked fifth with $56 billion; on July 17, the Forbes Rich List was released, Mark Zuckerberg ranked sixth with a net worth of $66.7 billion; on July 7, 2018, Zuckerberg surpassed Buffett to become the world's third richest man. On September 13, 2018, Zuckerberg published a 3,300-word article on his Facebook website titled "Preparing for elections," detailing all the steps the company has taken to combat election interference. In March 2019, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ranked 8th on the 2019 Forbes Global Billionaires List with a fortune of $62.3 billion. In October 2019, forbes ranked 4th on the U.S. 400 Richest People List. On March 9, 2020, with a wealth of 590 billion yuan, it ranked first in the "2020 Hurun Global Young And Strong Self-Made Rich List".
On April 18, 2019, it was listed on time magazine's 2019 list of the world's 100 most influential people. On September 5, 2019, the Breakthrough Award Foundation and its patron, Mark Zuckerberg, and others jointly announced the winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Award and the New Horizons Award. On October 24, Zuckerberg attended a hearing in the U.S. Congress and said That Libra aims to help vulnerable people build financial accounts.
In April 2021, Mark Zuckerberg was ranked 5th on the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List with a fortune of $97 billion. In October 2021, he was ranked 3rd in the 2021 Richest American List with a wealth of $134.5 billion.
Named Best CEO
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg received the highest score in Glassdoor's annual ranking of most beloved CEOs in 2013. Surveys have shown that the self-esteem ratio of Facebook employees has also risen sharply over the past year, although in May 2012 Facebook's stock was as unstable as a roller coaster. Zuckerberg's satisfaction ranged from 85 percent in 2012 to 99 percent in 2013.
One Facebook employee touted: "Zuckerberg instilled in us the idea of trusting and mutually integrated corporate social awareness and drive, so he can get our real respect."
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged to give up 99 percent of their Facebook stake in their lifetime.
Source of wealth: Facebook
Chinese name: Warren Buffett
Foreign name: Warren E. Buffett
Alias: Stock God
Date of birth: August 30, 1930
Age: 92 years old
Law School: University of Nebraska Forest
Current value: $99.6 billion
Forbes ranking: NO.6
Warren E. Buffett, male, M.A. in Economics. Born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, UNITED States. He is a world-renowned investor, mainly investing in stocks, electronic spot, fund industry.
On April 6, 2020, Warren Buffett was ranked 3rd in the Hurun Global 100 Entrepreneurs with a wealth of 590 billion yuan; on April 7, Warren Buffett ranked 4th in the 2020 Forbes Global Billionaires List with a wealth of US$67.5 billion.
On March 2, 2021, Warren Buffett was ranked 6th in the 2021 Hurun Global Rich List with a wealth of 589 billion yuan; in April, Warren Buffett was ranked 6th in the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List with a wealth of US$96 billion.
Buffett, known as the "Oracle of Omaha," is one of the most successful investors of all time. He was ranked no. 1 in the world's richest people in 2008 and third in 2015.
Because Buffett's vision of investing in stocks is unique, peculiar, and very clever, which kind of industry stocks to invest in, the industry will become popular. Therefore, Buffett is revered by many investors as the "god of stocks" (referred to as the "god of stocks").
He runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and ice cream chain Dairy Queen.
The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and paid taxes for the first time at age 13.
He is also a prominent philanthropist and has pledged to donate 99% of his wealth, largely to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. So far, he has given nearly $32 billion.
In 2022, a bet on Apple by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway could end up being one of his most successful investments, with book returns of more than $120 billion.
Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway, investment industry
Chinese name: Larry Ellison
Foreign name: Larry Ellision
Alias: Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison, Lawrence John f. Ra
Ethnicity: Jewish
Date of birth: August, 17 1944
Age: 76 years old
Law School: University of Illinois Northwestern University University of Chicago
Current value: $98.3 billion
Forbes Ranking: No.7
Larry Ellison was born in Manhattan, U.S.A., in 1944, of American Jewish descent from Russian immigrants. The owner of Oracle, the world's largest database software company, whose products are spread all over the world. He was a stranger, but no one seemed to be able to leave him. Ellison had achieved nothing until he was 32. After going to three universities, he didn't get a degree diploma, he changed more than a dozen companies, and his wife left him. It started with just $1,200, but it doubled its sales every year for 12 consecutive years, becoming the world's second-largest software company, also known by the media as one of the best and most profitable companies, and becoming the richest man in Silicon Valley. But only a few people know how long he has experienced during this period of life. At the age of 32, he has nothing, and by the time he is the richest man in Silicon Valley 20 years later, the reputation of this business wizard is also mixed.
In February 2014, the Lawrence Ellison Foundation, an Ellison Foundation, pledged $100 million to eradicate polio by donating $100 million to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
On April 6, 2020, Larry Ellison ranked 16th in the Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs with a wealth of 360 billion yuan. On April 7, 2020, Larry Ellison was ranked 5th on the 2020 Forbes Global Billionaires List with a fortune of $59 billion. In April 2021, Larry Ellison was ranked No. 7 on the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List with a fortune of $93 billion.
Forbes' total compensation includes base annual salary, bonuses, equity gains, and other earnings. The data shows that the total compensation of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the United States in 2007 was $6.4 billion, down 15% from $7.5 billion in 2006, and a sharp decline for the first time since 2002; the average compensation per CEO was $12.8 million, down from $15.2 million in 2006. Option yields account for a large percentage of the total compensation of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the United States, becoming one of their most important sources of income.
With unscrupulous business methods and strong market competition, Ellison defeated one opponent after another, and the next target he wanted to defeat was Microsoft, the king of the software empire. "Beating Microsoft to become the world's largest software company is one of my goals," he said. Success itself doesn't matter, what matters is that everyone else fails, and that's when I'm really successful. ”
Source of Wealth: Oracle Software, self-made
Chinese name: Larry Page
Foreign name: Larry Page
Date of birth: March, 26 1973
Age: 48 years old
Current value: $97.2 billion
Forbes Ranking: NO.8
Larry Page, full name Lawrence Edward Page, is an honorary graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, with a bachelor's degree in science and engineering from the University of Michigan and a ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
Page is one of the founders of Google and officially became CEO of Google on April 4, 2011.
Page believes that innovation is the future of Google, not just maintaining existing utility. Page said: "Once a lot of companies start making a profit, they will reduce their investment in research and development. Indeed, doing what you are familiar with is indeed very easy. However, past experience has taught us that once we stop innovating, we are likely to be surpassed by others. Therefore, for the management of a new Type of Internet company like Google, what is needed is not only to carry forward existing products, but more importantly, to continuously invest and encourage the company's product research and development to let the company open up more new directions." Moreover, Page believes that it is meaningless for innovation not to be commercialized, and it gives an example, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center is a well-known company focused on big ideas and innovation, it contributed a lot of innovation, but because of poor commercialization led to the ultimate failure.
In the face of competition, Page believes that the company's motivation is very important, rather than focusing on competitors, doing the same product to seek to compete with him, to protect themselves, but to research new and interesting things to make themselves more alive.
Page also argues that litigation and competition don't fail a company, but that it's the company going in the wrong direction and lacking competitive ambitions.
Source of wealth: Google Google
Chinese name: Sergey Brin
Foreign name: Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин, English: Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jews
Date of birth: August 21, 1973
Age: 47 years old
Law School: University of Maryland, Stanford University, IE Business School, Spain
Current value: $94.3 billion
Forbes Ranking: NO.9
Sergey Brin, full name Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Бррин), was born in Moscow, Russia, and is one of the co-founders of Google. American Russian-Jewish entrepreneur. Sergey Brin studied computer science and math before partnering with Larry Page to establish Google. He is currently a director of Google.
Sergey Brin was born into a Jewish family in Moscow, Soviet Union, to parents who graduated from Moscow State University. My father, Mikhail Brin, who was teaching at a school in Moscow and had served on the Soviet Planning Commission, "tried to use the data to prove that the standard of living of the Soviets was much higher than that of the Americans, and that was the main part of my work during the Soviet period. He said in an interview.
When Sergey was 6 years old (1979), the family decided to immigrate from the Soviet Union to live in the United States. After immigrating to the United States, his father became a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, while his mother, Evgenia, worked for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Sergey Brin attended elementary school in Maryland, but he learned more from home than he did at school. His father, a professor in mathematics at the University of Maryland, developed his interest in mathematics, and his relatives helped him maintain his ability to speak Russian. In the first grade of elementary school, Sergey submitted a design for the printout of the computer to the teacher, and at that time the computer was like a black-and-white television, and only a few people owned and knew how to use it.
After graduating from high school, Brin entered the University of Maryland to study mathematics, and his father, Michael, hoped that he would follow in his footsteps to become famous and follow the path of mathematics to the end. However, Brin did not follow the plan set for him by his father. For his outstanding grades, Brin received a scholarship after earning a Bachelor of Science degree and subsequently attended Stanford University. At Stanford University, the talented student was once again favored by fate, and the university allowed him to skip a master's degree and go directly to a doctorate in computer science.
The charm of the Internet deeply attracted Brin, who saw the Internet as the only way to the future. As early as college, Brin had already invented a search system in hypertext language format In September 1998, 24-year-old Brin and 25-year-old Page decided to jointly open a company, and the only service provided by the company was a search engine. Ignorant of business plans, Brin managed to secure his first investment from a Stanford alumnus: $100,000.
With that $100,000, in a friend's garage, Brin and Page embarked on a journey to Google. At its inception, apart from Brin and Page, the company had only one employee— Craig Silverstone— Google's current technical director. Their hard work soon paid off: Google, which had 10,000 searches a day at the time, began to attract media attention in 1999, and two more venture capitalists injected $25 million into Google, helping Google enter a new phase of development.
Chinese name: Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers
Foreign name: Françoise Betancourt - Mayes
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 1965
Age: 67 years old
Marital status: Married
Law School:
Current value: $78 billion
Forbes ranking: NO.10
Who is the richest woman in the world? According to the 2021 Forbes Real-Time Rich List, Françoise Betangourt-Meyers from France is worth $74.4 billion (about 483 billion yuan), surpassing Alice Walton of the Walton family in the United States to become the richest woman in the world.
The world's richest woman, the family specializes in women's business for three generations. Her mother is Liliana, the heiress of the L'Oréal Group in France, who was once the richest woman in the world and has long occupied the throne of the world's richest woman. Four years ago, he also surpassed LV boss Bernard Arnault to top the position of France's richest man.
I believe that many people are familiar with L'Oréal, and are the leaders in the field of cosmetics and skin care products. The company has a history of more than 100 years, after years of development, is now one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, including L'Oréal Paris, Giorgio Armani, YSL, Lancôme, Coyan's, Maybelline and other brands. It has a global presence with nearly 60,000 employees and annual sales of $33.4 billion.
Source of wealth: L'Oréal