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This document profiles 13 prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs: William Henry Gates III (co-founder of Microsoft), Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (co-founder of Facebook), Warren Edward Buffett (chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway), Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (co-founder of Google), Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (founder of Virgin Group), Michael Saul Dell (founder and CEO of Dell Technologies), Lawrence Joseph Ellison (co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation), Jeffrey Preston Bezos (founder, CEO and president of Amazon), Carlos Slim Helú (Mexican business magnate and founder of Grupo Carso), Amancio Ortega Gaona (founder and former

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William Henry Gates III Microsoft Corporation

This document profiles 13 prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs: William Henry Gates III (co-founder of Microsoft), Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (co-founder of Facebook), Warren Edward Buffett (chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway), Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (co-founder of Google), Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (founder of Virgin Group), Michael Saul Dell (founder and CEO of Dell Technologies), Lawrence Joseph Ellison (co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation), Jeffrey Preston Bezos (founder, CEO and president of Amazon), Carlos Slim Helú (Mexican business magnate and founder of Grupo Carso), Amancio Ortega Gaona (founder and former

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William Henry Gates III

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

 (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and
philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.[2][3] During his career at
Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief
software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of
the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and
1980s.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Facebook

 (/ˈzʌkərbɜːrɡ/; born May 14, 1984) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.


Zuckerberg is known for co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc. and its namesake social networking
website as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.[3][4] He also co-founded
and is a board member of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot.[5]

Warren Edward Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway

 (/ˈbʌfɪt/; born August 30, 1930)[2] is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist,
who is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful
investors in the world[3][4] and has a net worth of US$88.9 billion as of December 2019, making him
the fourth-wealthiest person in the world.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin

Co-founder of Google

 (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American computer


scientist and Internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin was the
president of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc, until stepping down from the role on December
3, 2019. Brin and Larry Page will remain controlling shareholders of Alphabet. As of October 2019,
Brin is the 10th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$64.1billion
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
Virgin Group
 (born 18 July 1950)[4] is a British business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist.[5] He
founded the Virgin Group in the 1970s, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields.[6]
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture,
at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business.
He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and
expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin
Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port, noted for
the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.

Michael Saul Dell

Dell technologies

 (born February 23, 1965) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the


founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure
companies. He is ranked as the 27th richest person in the world by Forbes, with a net worth of $31.0
billion as of October 2019.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison

Oracle Corporation

 (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is a co-
founder and the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation.[4] As
of October 2019, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fourth-wealthiest person in the United
States and as the sixth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $69.1 billion, increased from
$54.5 billion in 2018.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos 

Amazon

(/ˈbeɪzoʊs/;[a][3] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an


American internet and aerospace entrepreneur, media proprietor, and investor. He is best known as
the founder, chief executive officer, and president of Amazon. The first centi-billionaire on
the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth
increased to $150 billion in July 2018.[4] In September 2018, Forbes described him as "far richer than
anyone else on the planet" as he added $1.8 billion to his net worth when Amazon became the
second company in history to reach a market cap of $1 trillion.
Carlos Slim Helú

 (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos ezˈlim eˈlu]; born 28 January 1940 in Mexico City) is a Mexican
business tycoon, investor, philanthropist, and engineer.[2][3] From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as
the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine.[1][4] He derived his fortune from his
extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through
his conglomerate, Grupo Carso.[5] As of October 2019, he is the eighth-richest person in the world
according to Forbes' listing of The World's Billionaires, with he and his family having a net worth
estimated at $59.5 billion.[1] He is the richest person in Latin America.

Amancio Ortega Gaona

Inditex fashion Group

 (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈmanθjo oɾˈteɣa ɣaˈona]; born 28 March 1936) is a


Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group,
best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories shops. As of December 2019, Ortega had
a net worth of $68.3 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in Europe after Bernard
Arnault, and the sixth-wealthiest in the world.[2] For a brief period of time in 2015, he was the richest
man in the world, bypassing Bill Gates when his net worth peaked to $80 billion as Zara's parent
company, Inditex’s, stock peaked.

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