We live in a time where you don’t need rich parents to achieve elite status. A talented student can make a fortune creating something, while an ordinary entrepreneur can get rich thanks to a reality show. Of course, the lives of these people were completely different before they acquired wealth.
#01. Elon Musk
Elon Musk learned to code at the age of 9, and when he turned 28, he sold his first startup (for $307).
At the age of 30, he founded PayPal, and two years later Tesla Motors was founded. Meanwhile, he founded the SpaceX company, claiming to colonize Mars in the near future.
Today, Musk turns 50 and enjoys billionaire status – and his dream of colonizing Mars may come true!
#02. Bill Gates
At the age of 21, together with Paul Allen, he founded his own company – Microsoft.
In 2018, Gates was ranked 7th on Forbes’ list of the most powerful people in the world. He is ahead of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Pope Francis, among others.
#03. Kris Jenner
Despite the wave of criticism pouring in on Jenner, it’s hard to deny her entrepreneurial spirit. Before meeting her husband Robert Kardashian, she worked as a flight attendant, but her good organizational and planning skills allowed her to open her own store.
However, in addition to the money itself, Jenner also knew how to earn fame by taking care of the well-being of her family. A reality show about her family gave her children careers.
#04. Jeff Bezos
Bezos always dreamed of starting his own company in 1994. July 5 Registered a company in Seattle called Cadabra.Inc, which soon changed its name to Amazon.com.
It is currently the largest online store in the world. As of 2018, he is the richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg ranking. Forbes estimated his wealth at more than $204 billion.
#05. Larry Page and Sergey Brin
in 1995 the two talented guys in the photo above met at Stanford University. A casual conversation about computer technology turned into an acquaintance, and then into a long-term friendship. After some time, they started working on a project that would become one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world – Google Inc.
#06. Mark Zuckerberg
Hardly anyone knows the story of the 19-year-old Harvard student who created Facebook. It makes no sense to repeat what everyone knows, so it remains to add that 37-year-old Mr. Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history and the thirteenth most influential person in the world, according to Forbes magazine.
#07. Tim Cook
A calm and determined student from the University of Alabama found his first job at the largest computer company – IBM. He then worked at several other companies before joining Apple, where he became Steve Jobs’ right-hand man and, after his death, president of the entire company.
#08. Richard Branson
Richard Branson has always loved scandals. On his graduation day, the principal told him that in the future he would either go to jail or become a millionaire. He was right.
Today, Sir Richard Branson is one of the most famous people in the world, the founder of Virgin Group, a billionaire.
#09. Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki is an example of a successful woman in information technology. As Google’s director of marketing, Wojcicki offered to buy the YouTube platform, and since 2014. she is its CEO.
#10. Steve Wozniak
The smiling character in the left photo has always been a creative engineer. For example, Wozniak designed and built a communication system for 6 children’s bedrooms in neighboring houses so that you can talk to your friends without leaving the house. 20 years later, the same person created the first Apple computer together with Steve Jobs.