Wealth means two things to me, money and talent, what I’ve got today belongs to yesterday, but what’s in my mind creates the future. This graduate from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China established Internet portal NetEase in 1997, when he was only 26. This energetic business tycoon is the major force for spreading and popularizing Internet in China. Buff of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, Ding is known for his dead-on decision making skills.
Once again, the Internet rules! He dumped Sony Communication Network after graduating from Nihon’s University Faculty of Law in 1999 and founded the revolutionary social site GREE (evolved from the phrase “Six degrees of separation”) in 2004. This youngest self-made billionaire of Asia has now became an epitome in the field of mobile gaming. Considered as the strong contestant for the No. 1 position of Mark Zukerberg, Tanaka is also referred as The Next Bill Gates.
Son of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, this dashing superhero of corporate world now lives in Paris with his mother and is involved in construction projects. He also runs a television network started by his father in 1992. This baby boy of a mega-rich Hariri family has strictly denied from using the property of his family to live a lavishing lifestyle until you are contributing in the day to day running of the empire.
His Serene Highness. This graduate of economics and theology from University of Edinburgh belongs to the royal house of Thurn and Taxis was listed in the Forbes rank when he was only eight but officially he inherited fortune when he turned 18. Crazy of car racing, he has the largest forest holdings in Europe. He is also involved in real estate, art and a tech company and electricity production. In 2008, he secured the 11th rank in Forbes Magazine’s “20 Hottest Young Royals.”
Daddy’s gal. This richest woman of China owns a real estate developer Country Garden, founded by her father, Yeung Kwok Keung. Till the date, this gorgeous, young lady is on 277th rank among the 1000 richest people in world, according to Forbes. A perfect inspiration for women, she has a great contribution in rapid evolution of China’s economy.
Master of finance! Zhevago is the first Eastern European to enlist his company, Ferrexpo on London Stock Exchange. Since, 1998, he is a regular member of the Parliament of Ukraine. A specialist in International economics, his bank – “Finances and Credit” is the largest bank of Ukraine. He is also the owner of Ukraine’s football team – “FC Vorskla Poltava”. This nerd of Kiev National Economic University also is the youngest European multimillionaire who establish his empire by himself.
We want Google to be the third half of your brain. Boyishly handsome, Brin is a Ph.D. holder in computer science from Stanford. While his Ph.D. he was working on an university project – “Google” with his batch mate Larry Page. But then, nobody had imagine that one day this Google will become an epitome in Internet history. On his 9th birthday he got a present by his father, his first computer – “Commodore 64.” A big fan of roller hockey, this handsome hunk lives a common life and still drives his not so costly car – Toyota Prius.
Co-founder of the multi-billion-dollar company Google with his best friend, Sergey Brin, Larry’s parents were professor of computer science at Michigan State University. The 55th richest man in world, Larry started the Google project with Brin in their Stanford Lab which later shifted to the California’s Silicon Valley. He never finished his Ph.D. due to the great success of his magical search engine. One of the most technical celebrity.
After quitting his job as an oil trader in Enron, John founded his own company – “Centaurus”, focusing on natural gas and energy trading. He has got the mind of an economist, the experience of a old gas man, and the iron stomach of a riverboat gambler. His previous trading experiences with Enron brainstormed him the requirement of gas customers in entire country.
Today Facebook mania in nothing but a “Harvard thing by Harvard Boy.” Once again Harvard came into spotlight when Facebook was founded in 2004 by a shy master programmer Mark Zuckerberg in his hostel room shared by co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. The vision of this nerd can be easily understood by his statement: When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
