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"Centi-Billionaires": These eight people have assets of over $ 100 billion

2021-05-21T01:55:06.028Z


Eight people worldwide are so-called "centi-billionaires". We introduce the entrepreneurs whose fortunes are over $ 100 billion.


Eight people worldwide are so-called "centi-billionaires".

We introduce the entrepreneurs whose fortunes are over $ 100 billion.

They are the richest of the rich:

Bloomberg

estimates that the following eight entrepreneurs have a hundred billion - in numbers 100,000,000,000 - dollars or more

in their accounts (as of May 18, 2021).

We introduce them to you:

Number 8: Sergey Brin

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Sergey Brin was President of Alphabet Inc. until December, which is certainly less known than the company behind it: Google.

The prototype was launched in 1998.

Today people can no longer imagine life without his search engine.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed the billion-dollar idea together

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At Stanford, Brin (left) made friends with doctoral student Larry Page, with whom he forged an ingenious project: the development of a complex search engine for the Internet.

The PageRank algorithm (named after Larry Page) was born.

Sergey Brin: He was married to Anne Wojcicki from May 2007 to May 2015

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In 2007, the Moscow-born American married biotechnology entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki.

They have two children together, a son and a daughter.

They have been divorced since 2015.

Sergey Brin: President of Alphabet Inc. until December 2019

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Alphabet Inc. is the holding company of Google.

It has acted as the parent company of the former Google subsidiaries since 2015.

Larry Page and Sergy Brin took turns at the top until the end of 2019.

And business is flourishing.

In 2020 the company had sales of $ 182.5 billion.

Over the years, Brin has earned a total of 101 billion.

Sergey Brin: What he's doing today

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Brin lives in Los Altos, California, near the Google headquarters.

He's been worried since his company went public.

Of course, Google still has enough work to do.

Curious: Sergey Brin never finished his computer science degree.

Founding Google was too much to do on the side.

In 2013 he created the

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

, one of the most prestigious awards in the world.

Brin definitely has a heart for science.

Number 7: Larry Page

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Larry Page also stopped his university career because of Google.

To date, he has not submitted his dissertation.

Her topic: the development of a working search algorithm.

Maybe the computer scientist just doesn't want to reveal his PageRank secret.

Larry Page: Already market leader in 2000

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Google's success was rapid.

Just two years after the prototype was introduced, Page and Brin's company was already the market leader.

The German computer scientist Andreas von Bechtolsheim also made the start possible.

In 1998, after just ten minutes of presentation, he was so convinced that he pulled out a $ 100,000 check.

He wasn't wrong.

Larry Page: Multi-billionaire in the IPO

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Peter Foley

The IPO then provided the financial quantum leap.

Page (seen on the left in this picture from 2009) owned 38 million shares and with them became an instant multibillionaire.

He managed the fortune well and now owns $ 105 billion.

Google also grew from 200 employees to the leading IT company with 24,400 employees between 2001 and 2011.

Larry Page: Big projects despite severe health problems

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In 2003 Larry Page was diagnosed with Hashimoto's autoimmune disease.

It leads to chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland.

Fortunately, severe gradients are rare.

But the disease cannot be cured.

Ten years later, Page made another stroke of fate public.

He suffers from bilateral vocal cord paralysis.

The nerve for the movements of the internal muscles of the larynx is damaged.

He controls voice and breathing.

Larry Page stayed on board Google and Alphabet for a long time.

He also started another project.

Larry Page: December 3, 2019 Resignation of Google and Alphabet - air taxi

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On December 3, 2019, Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced that they were retiring from the day-to-day running of Google.

The really big step was not a bang.

The two founders had already made themselves rare in public for a long time.

Larry Page now takes care of his start-up "Kitty Hawk".

He wants to bring air taxis to the start in New Zealand.

Number 6: Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffet is an absolute business savior.

He made a fortune with various investments.

He rarely made bad purchases.

He began studying at the University of Pennsylvania at the age of 16.

When he was 26, he started his company and bought the Berkshire Hathaway textile factory.

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway is much more than a textile company

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The fashion brand "Fruit of the loom" is well known and successful.

But Berkshire Hathaway didn't just develop the Buffet into a clothing company.

It is an investment group.

With targeted investments, Buffet increases its money.

Warren Buffett: "The Oracle of Omaha" - investment strategy makes him a financial icon

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"Value investing" is the name of Buffet's recipe for success.

He mainly buys shares when they also reflect the real company value.

This greatly reduces the likelihood of major losses.

The assessment of the company is of course the major difficulty.

His predictions, often accurate, have earned Buffet $ 109 billion and nicknamed "the Oracle of Omaha".

The picture shows him in 2003 at the side of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles.

Warren Buffett: Personal frugality despite his immense wealth

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Warren Buffet doesn't live in ostentation.

Even in public, the billionaire is always humble.

Whether he wears the colorful shorts of his fashion company himself?

Buffet comes from more than middle-class backgrounds.

His father Howard was a broker and a member of the US Congress.

Warren Buffett donates 99 percent of his fortune

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Like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet describes himself as a philanthropist.

And these are not just empty words.

Buffet has pledged to donate 99 percent of its assets.

In 2009 he started the “Living Pledge” together with Gates.

On behalf of the initiative, billionaires pledge to donate at least half of their property to charity.

Number 5: Mark Zuckerberg - the youngest self-made billionaire of all time.

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As the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg knows almost everyone.

Who were his co-founders back then?

Probably only those who have watched the film "The Social Network" know that.

Mark Zuckerberg: Establishing Facebook is more important - he drops out of his studies

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Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York, in 1984.

At the age of 20, he started Facebook with three fellow students at Harvard University.

Two years later he gave up his studies without a degree.

Today he holds an honorary doctorate and an estimated $ 118 billion worth of fortune.

Mark Zuckerberg: The Rise of Facebook

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Zuckerberg had already tried other Internet portals before he came up with the idea of ​​"Facemash".

It was planned as a small student network.

Together with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin, he developed “thefacebook.com” from this.

Today, Zuckerberg has 114 billion US dollars on the high edge thanks to Facebook.

By the way, Facebook's basic color is blue because Zuckerberg has a red-green weakness.

Mark Zuckerberg supports schools and cancer research - Facebook founder donates billions

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Mark Zuckerberg is also known for his very generous donations.

In 2012, he donated $ 100 million to schools in Newark.

In 2012 he gave 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which supports projects in the field of education and health.

Zuckerberg has been funding a project in the fight against cancer since 2016.

He plans to release a total of three billion US dollars over ten years.

The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation has also existed since his daughter was born in 2015.

99 percent of Facebook's stock assets, valued at around $ 45 billion at the time, went to the charitable foundation.

Mark Zuckerberg: data protection controversies on Facebook - freedom of expression debate on social networks

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But Mark Zuckerberg also has to deal with criticism a lot.

Data protection questions on Facebook and WhatsApp keep coming up.

In addition, since the corona pandemic at the latest, the debate about control mechanisms in social networks has been burning.

Number 4: Bill Gates

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Bill Gates is arguably one of the most famous billionaires ever.

Microsoft's success changed the world.

As an avowed philanthropist, Gates wants to improve that too.

He gave up the management of his company years ago.

Bill Gates is also a college dropout - he founded Microsoft at the university

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Not the first on our list: Bill Gates is wearing out his studies at Harvard University.

In 1975 he decided to give Microsoft his full attention.

A step that quickly paid off.

The breakthrough came just a few years after dropping out with the introduction of the MS-DOS operating system.

The picture shows him in 1981 together with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (left).

Bill and Melinda Gates: Charitable projects are funded with a foundation

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Bill and Melinda Gates married in 1994. In 2021 they announced their divorce.

The "Bill and Melinda Gates" foundation should continue to exist.

With an estimated net worth of $ 46.8 billion, it is the largest private charity in the world.

By the time he dies, Gates claims to have donated 90 to 95 percent of his fortune.

That fortune is currently estimated at $ 144 billion.

Incidentally, his two children should each inherit "only" ten million dollars, the rest of the money should go to charitable projects.

Bill Gates: Target of conspiracy hypotheses

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Axel Heimken

In 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates announced they would donate a total of $ 10 billion to vaccine development over the next decade.

At the end of those ten years, the corona pandemic began and Gates was targeted by conspiracy theorists.

The picture shows a participant in a demonstration in Hamburg who is holding a sign that reads “Don't give gates a chance”.

Bill Gates warned of pandemics

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Gates was aware of the risk of a pandemic even before the novel coronavirus spread.

As early as 2015, he publicly warned of the danger posed by pathogens around the world.

In February, Gates donated $ 100 million to projects to develop global responses to the corona crisis.

Among other things, his foundation supported the German company Curevac, which then developed a vaccine.

Number 3: Elon Musk

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From dazzling brands we come to dazzling ideas.

Elon Musk invests in music of the future.

He is known as a co-founder of the payment service PayPal, the space company SpaceX and the automobile manufacturer Tesla.

Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1971.

Elon Musk: He sold his first PC program at the age of twelve - at 16 he emigrated

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Elon Musk - seen here hosting the Saturday Night Live TV show in May 2021 - was an early starter.

By the age of twelve he had developed a video game called "Blastar".

The computer magazine

PC and Office Technologie

bought it from the teenager for $ 500.

At 15, Musk applied for Canadian citizenship for himself and his younger brother.

A little over a year later, shortly before his 17th birthday, he emigrated.

In doing so, he circumvented military service and the apartheid regime in South Africa.

When he arrived in Canada, he began his studies at Queen's University in Kingston.

Elon Musk founds one company after another - SpaceX one of the first

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Musk started his first company, Zip2, with his brother when he was 24.

In 1999, Compaq struck and bought the media services program for $ 307 million, a new record for an Internet company at the time.

Musk has now made a fortune of $ 170 billion from that initial success.

Musk started PayPal in 2000.

And just two years later, the space company SpaceX.

Even before investing in his automobile company.

Elon Musk: Tesla wants to build electric cars that hardly differ from combustion engines

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Tesla specializes in e-mobility.

Today's Musk company was one of the first manufacturers to try to produce e-cars that hardly differ from the well-known cars.

In 2014, the company released all of its patents to advance the entire electric vehicle market.

Elon Musk gives his son a crazy name - controversial appearances on TV

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Elon Musk is often very relaxed in his private life.

The meme culture on the Internet seems to have done it to him.

For example, he released two rap songs: "RIP Harambe" and "Don't Doubt ur Vibe".

He named his son, based on a military helicopter, with the curious name "X hnung A-XII".

Hopefully Musk can cope with being pushed into third place on this list, which overtook him in May 2021.

After all, he still has $ 161 billion left for consolation.

Number 2: Bernard Arnault - the only centi billionaire from Europe

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The richest man in Europe is considered the second richest man in the world.

Bernard Arnault was born in France in 1949.

He owes his fortune to the luxury brand

Louis Vuitton

, the champagne

Moët et Chandon

and the cognac

Henessy

.

He also owns the business newspaper

Les Échos

.

Bernard Arnault: Rise of a Luxury Empire

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Bernard Arnault is enthusiastic about culture.

He collects contemporary art and plays the piano.

Arnault has plenty of money for works of art.

His luxury empire brought him $ 155 billion.

In 1984 he restructured the French textile group Boussac / Saint-Frères.

Almost everyone knows one of the subsidiaries: Dior.

Bernard Arnault: He wanted Belgian citizenship - scandal in France

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In 2012, Arnault got caught in the media crossfire.

He had applied for Belgian citizenship.

He was accused of trying to avoid taxes in France.

Following public pressure, he withdrew his application in 2013.

He made himself more popular in his home country in 2019 when he announced after the fire of Notre Dame that he would be funding the restoration of the cathedral with 200 million euros.

Bernard Arnault: Second marriage to Hélène Mercier

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Bernard Arnault, who also weighs 161 billion, has two children with his childhood sweetheart.

But he later separated from Anne Sewarvin.

He has been married to Hélène Mercier since 1991.

He also had two children with her.

Bernard Arnault: luxury billionaire with political influence?

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Bernard Arnault is close friends with the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and was also his best man at his wedding in 1996. In 2019 Arnault was criticized for appearing together with Donald Trump.

The then US President attended the opening of the new Louis Vuitton factory in Texas (the photo shows the two in Trump Tower in 2017).

Chief designer Nicolas Ghesquière made his displeasure about it public.

Arnault objected to act not as a politician but as a businessman.

Number 1: Jeff Bezos

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The richest person in the world is from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jeff Bezos makes billions thanks to Amazon.

In May 2021, he sold, quite unexpectedly, shares valued at $ 6.7 billion.

What he plans to do with the money is his secret.

Maybe he's putting it in his space program.

Jeff Bezos: From bookseller to richest man in the world

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Together with David Shaw, Jeff Bezos came up with the billion-dollar idea.

They wanted to sell books on the internet.

In 1994, Bezos founded Amazon and separated from his business partner.

The photo shows Bezos in Hamburg in 1999 in front of the projection of a German website.

The trade should then not stop with books.

You can now just buy anything on Amazon.

Thanks to the idea, Bezos can afford almost anything.

His net worth is $ 190 billion.

Jeff Bezos has his own space company - Blue Origin will soon offer space tourism

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In 2000 Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin.

The company's aim: to offer space tourism for the first time.

Interested parties should soon be able to fly through the earth's orbit for a mere double-digit million sum.

Jeff Bezos: "Worst boss in the world" - World Congress gives Amazon founder a bad testimony

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The working conditions in Amazon's shipping factories are said to be terrible.

Rumors circulate that employees are not even allowed to take a break to go to the bathroom.

The international trade union federation therefore voted Bezos the “worst boss in the world” at the 2014 World Congress.

A year later, the

New York Times published

a report on the conditions on Amazon.

Business practices and leadership style didn't fare well in the report.

Bezos objected that his company was not recognized in the report.

Jeff Bezos: Wife divorced after 27 years - MacKenzie Scott is one of the richest women in the world

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With a net worth of approximately $ 60 billion, MacKenzie Scott is the second richest woman in the world.

She also earned it with Amazon.

From 1992 to 2019 she was married to Jeff Bezos.

In the same year Sott joined the initiative "The Giving Pledge".

She wants to donate about half of her fortune.

Jeff Bezos: Amazon founder to step down in 2021

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After almost 30 years at the helm of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is breaking up.

It is not an unusual step for company founders to transfer the operational business into other hands.

So by the end of 2021, the richest man in the world also wants to do the same.

Bezos wants to devote himself to other projects.

"I've never had more energy and it's not about retiring," he said in a press release.

Source: merkur

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