Category: Famous Entrepreneurs
Daymond John is an American businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of the fashion company FUBU. He is also a famous entrepreneur, investor, television personality, author, and motivational speaker. You may have watched it on TV, he participates as an investor on Shark Tank – reality television series on ABC. In this show he and four other business executives (the sharks) get ideas from everyday people, choose profitable projects and give money to their entrepreneurs to start them as a business. Today Daymond John has an estimated net worth of around $250 million and he has been a...
We all know Steve Jobs (Steven Poul Jobs) as the creator and CEO of Apple. The evolution of Apple and the success of its products will be his legacy in the long run, but it is interesting to learn about how he ascended to where he ended up. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955, and is of Syrian and German descent. His biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali (father) and Joanne Carole Schieble (mother) were still students and couldn’t afford to raise the child. Jobs was adopted soon after his birth and grew up predominately in...
Bill Gates is one of the super successful entrepreneurs of our century, he’s one of the founders of Microsoft, and also one of the biggest owners of shares in the company. He started with nothing and eventually managed to build one of the biggest software companies in the world which are valued at $1.02 TRILLION (2019). Thus, Microsoft became one of the first companies to pass the threshold of 1 billion US dollars of market capitalization. He is not only very rich and successful but also he is smart and a very cool guy whom I admire a lot. While...
While I was browsing around the Internet, I came across another cool infographic, which shows 8 specifics for all successful entrepreneurs things. I think the following tips will be really helpful for any ambitious person and here I am publishing them here. I have read the stories of many self-made millionaires and billionaires, and I can conclude from this experience that the following facts apply really well to successful people. Here they are: 1. Never have a backup plan! 2. Work really hard, greatness comes from effort. 3. Pursue your goals. 4. Don’t try to be one of the herd,...
When he was only 12, Ephren Taylor started his first business venture – video game design. He was crazy about games, like most of the kids his age. He started reading “How To Make A Video Game In 21 Days”, by Andre LaMothe, every day after school, and after a few months he had coded his first game – shoot the bad guys trying to outrage the president. Some of his friends and schoolmates were the first market for his product, they bought the first copies at 10 dollars each. Motivated by his profits, Ephren continued to develop. A year...
Mark Zuckerburg is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 21st century. He is one of the founders and currently the CEO of the extremely popular social networking site – Facebook. What makes him so admirable is the fact that he started from zero when he was 19, and achieved big success at a very young age. Currently, he is 31 years old and his net worth, as of November 2015 is estimated at $35.7 billion. A thing about him, that is worth being mentioned here is that he never worked for the money. Money is never the driving force behind the...
Below is a nice set of infographics, where you can see how some famous billionaires made their first billion dollars. Most of the richest people in the world were actually poor at the beginning of their lives, they are self-made billionaires. But how did they make their first billion dollars? Here is how Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Lilliane Bettencourt, Oprah Winfrey, and Li-Ka-Shing did it. Below are the early stories of these people and the steps they made to their wealth. Buffett realized from a very young age that he will become an investor. He bought his first stock at...
This post will be really cool. On this interactive image, you can see advice for success from some of the most famous and prosperous entrepreneurs in the world. They are not only self-made billionaires but also they are the most successful ones. They are the big players in the game, and here they share their best principles, which they followed in their personal and business lives to become what they are. This is an amazing resource and source of motivation. Reading their advice, you can not only benefit from the experience they have, but you can also see what exactly...
This is a story of a life that many people dream of. The story of an ordinary student, who changed the way we communicate with our friends and our society as a whole. Mark Zuckerberg is one of the founders of the most popular social network – Facebook. He is just 29, but he has created a company valued at $100 billion dollars, a platform used by hundreds of billions of people from around the world, and here is the story of how he did all of this. This movie traces the life of Mark and shows the path he...
On August 21st, 1973 Sergey Brin was born. He along with Larry Page is the co-founder of Google – the world’s largest search engine. Currently, in 2013, he has an estimated net worth of $77.5 billion (2022). Early Days The birth of Brin was in Moscow, in 1973. At the age of six Brin came to America from Russia with his parents. Concern for their son and his future in Russia forced the Brin family to move to America. His father wasn’t able to get the career he wanted there, because he was Jewish, and was not officially repressed by...
