Tagged: The Stories Of Famous Entrepreneurs
Larry Ellison (Lawrence Ellison), who co-founded the enterprise software giant Oracle, and currently is a chief executive officer there, was born on August 17, 1944, in the Bronx, New York. After being adopted as an infant by Jewish parents, he spent his high school years in the Chicago area. Larry himself did not subscribe to any religion, avoiding a bar mitzvah when he turned 13. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a few years then attended the University of Chicago, where he grew interested in computer design, but soon dropped out. Then at age 20, he moved...
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...
You can get rich and very successful even by a complete accident. In fact, many great businesses come to the world totally by fluke. And this is how one of the most popular social publishing platforms – Movable Type was born. It was started by a husband and wife, who created a system with the only ambition to make their own blog and a few years later they were millionaires. Today Movable Type is used by millions of people and by some of the largest companies in the world for their websites. It’s an open-source CMS software for creating sites,...
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...
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...
All people on Earth are 99.9% the same. And this is a scientific fact, there is just a 0.1% difference between the genes of any two people. What the heck? What we all have learned from our everyday life is that everyone is different, too. Why are we so much the same, and at the same time so much different? Why do some people become billionaires, some become musicians, etc…? Well, one of the things that makes everyone so unique is the way she/he looks in life. Everybody is affected differently by different things in life and this is how...
“I won’t stop until I make 100 million pounds.” Christian Owens once said – a teenage boy, entrepreneur, who made his first million when he was just 16 years old. This is an amazing story about a British schoolboy, who now runs a multimillion company. Christian Owens was just 14 when he started his first venture – the site Mac Box Bundle – an online store offering a combination of various Apple applications and utilities available for a short time at a big discount. He also gave 10 percent of the revenue to charity. The young entrepreneur used his pocket...
Warren Buffet is, and will ever be one of the greatest financial gurus and investors of all time. Currently, he is one of the wealthiest and most influential persons in the entire world. In 2022, his net worth is estimated at $106.3 billion, which makes him the 4th richest on Earth. He, like many other great businessmen and entrepreneurs, started with almost nothing. His story is definitely an interesting one, and this video is all about his life – from childhood to nowadays. See here a tidy and amazing biography of the financial guru dedicated to some of the most...
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...
