The best and most successful entrepreneur is someone who has the ability to bear most of the risks yet enjoys most of the outcomes. But if you ask what is an entrepreneur in simple words,
An entrepreneur is someone who creates or set up his own business or someone who invests in an organization by taking all the financial risks.
Apart from financial risks and profits, entrepreneurs are also driven by some major dynamics like invention, disturbance, making a positive impact and much more.
Not just that, but successful entrepreneurs also have the skills to define, invest, build, repeat. Yes, that’s right. The small yet the only cycle to become a successful entrepreneur with consistency, obviously!
In the last 10 years, the world has witnessed some of those self-made entrepreneurs making more money than we can think of and they turned out to be the RICHEST BILLIONAIRE.
Have you ever wondered how these self-made entrepreneurs turned themselves into the richest billionaires in the world? What made these entrepreneurs so successful?
How do they continue to grow, is there any stop for them? If you ask so, the short answer is NO!
As self-made entrepreneurs have started to turn themselves into the richest billionaires of the world, these entrepreneurs began to concern the very engine of economic development and the people we are counting on desperately to rev it up.
In order to close the widening fiscal whole in the economic world, the economy of any country needs all kinds of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs are the ones who are always breaking their necks.
They are addicted to looking out corners and the need to change the world. In short, entrepreneurs are genuine money multipliers.
They have the skill to transform the capital of $1 into $2, at that point $2 into $10 and $10 into $100.
If you are someone who is starting to consider yourself an entrepreneur and dreams of having a successful venture of your own, stop there.
Before you do anything, brace yourself to get inspired by this diverse bunch of these successful self-made entrepreneurs who turned into the richest entrepreneurs in the world.
Jeff Bezos
Who doesn’t know him? If you have never heard of this name once in your lifetime, you must have heard of Amazon. Jeffrey Preston Bezos, professionally known as Jeff Bezos.
He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, investor and founder of Amazon. Jeff Bezos is the mind behind the ecommerce colossus, Amazon. He founded Amazon as an online book store on July 5, 1994, in his garage, that’s when he owned 12% of its stake.
Since then he never looked back, in fact, he worked on the strategies of Amazon and turned that online book store into the world’s largest and most successful online shopping with lots of diversification.
Presently, Amazon has now hundreds of branches all over the world with more than millions of users.
As of now, at age 57 Jeff Bezos is on the top of the list of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a fortune net worth of $193.5 Billion.
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk, professionally known as Elon Musk, is a business tycoon, successful investor, industrial designer and engineer.
Musk is the founder of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturer corporation, which also provides space transportation services, SpaceX which is now valued at a fortune amount of $46 billion.
Moreover, he also owns the world’s largest clean energy and electric vehicle company, Tesla Inc. This business tycoon also owns the world’s largest infrastructure company which provides tunnel construction services, The Boring Company.
Undoubtedly, he has diversified his interests, as one of the most diversified portfolios of businesses out of many entrepreneurs on this list. Musk also co-founded Neuralink Corporation, which is a neurotechnology company.
Musk also owns an artificial intelligence-based research laboratory which is consist of the for-profit corporation, Open AI.
Owning the five largest companies in the world, Elon musk is considered one of the richest men in the world after Jeff Bezos with a total worth of $171.6 Billion.
Bernard Arnault
French art collector, billionaire and businessman, Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is professionally known as Bernard Arnault. He is the chairman of the largest luxury good company in the world.
Bernard Arnault is the CEO of the fashion corporation LVMH. If you are a fashion enthusiast, you must know what LVMH stands for. It, Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton, yes it’s pronounced vertically.
Bernard Arnault co-founded LMVH as a luxury goods company with Alain Chevalier. Presently, LVMH has more than 80+ brands under its belt including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
Being in the list of the most influential richest people in the world, Bernard Arnault is listed 3rd on the list of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a fortune net worth of $155.1 Billion.
Bill Gates
You kept hearing the name of the richest person in the world since your childhood and that Bill Gates. Who doesn’t love him? He is loved by everyone.
William Henry Gates III, professionally known as Bill Gates is the founder of the PC software firm Microsoft Corporation. Gates is an American an inspiring entrepreneur, business tycoon, software developer and philanthropist.
Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates and Pule Allen in 1975. Gates is known as the man behind the revolutionizing the personal computing industry.
Since the formation of Microsoft, Gates has incredibly managed to grow his wealth over the last few decades. He was on the top of the list until Jeff Bezos and others took place
However, Gates continually tops the list at 4th of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a fortune net worth of $123.1 Billion.
Mark Zuckerberg
Just like Bill Gates, you all must have heard of this name since you started online chatting.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg famously known as Mark Zuckerberg is one of the youngest and richest entrepreneurs.
He is a technology entrepreneur and media magnate. He is the CEO of the most used famous social media platform, Facebook Inc.
It’s been 13 years to amass one of the world’s most massive fortunes by founding and growing Facebook. Facebook has always been the most used social media platform of the media world.
Since its formation in 2004, Facebook has gone through many ups and downs but Mark Zuckerberg has always made its way to be on the list of the youngest and richest entrepreneurs by Forbes.
At such a young age, being one of the 10 richest entrepreneur billionaires in the world is indeed a massive thing.
With a fortune net worth of $98.5 Billion, the founder of Facebook is at 5th on the list of the richest entrepreneurs of the world as the youngest entrepreneurs.
Zhong Shanshan
Chinese billionaire on the list, Carlos Slim Helu is a philanthropist, businessman and successful investor. He is the CEO and founder of China’s biggest beverage company, Nongfu Spring. Recently, the company listed its shares in Hong Kong.
Before starting his own beverage business without any idea that it could be such a huge success, Zhong Shanshan worked as a newspaper reporter, not just that but also worked as a construction worker and a beverage sales agent.
As of now, Zhong Shanshan also owns Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise. Shanshan is 6th on the list of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a fortune net worth of $94.8 Billion.
Warren Edward Buffett
Warren Buffet, the father of the American multinational conglomerate holding company, Berkshire Hathway. He is an American business tycoon, investor and philanthropist and famously known as the ‘Oracle of Omaha.’
In the world of entrepreneurs, he is known as one of the classiest entrepreneurs of all time with the greatest business strategies.
At the tender age of 11, he bought his first stock and filed tax after two years of it. Since then he was unstoppable. Presently, Berkshire Hathway owns more than 60 companies all over the world.
Just as Bill Gates, he is also loved because of his charitable nature, as he pledged to give away 99% of his wealth as a charity.
Owning most of the shares of most of the biggest countries of the world, Buffet is at 7th on the list of the richest entrepreneurs in the world with a fortune net worth of $92.5 Billion.
Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page known as Larry Page is an American internet entrepreneur and computer scientist.
He is the co-founder of the world’s largest search engine machine, Google Inc. Not just that but he also co-founded Alphabets and Page Ranks.
Larry Page is the mind behind the Google Page Ranks Algorithm and also the investor of the ‘flying cars’ startups.
Inventing the world’s best search the engine machine, Google also runs a bunch of other popular digital services like Google Maps, Google Drive, Gmail, YouTube, Cloud.
With a fortune net worth of $91.9 Billion, the founder of the Google is at 8th on this list of richest entrepreneurs of the world.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin renowned as Sergey Brin is the co-founder of the world’s largest search engine machine, Google Inc. Yes, that is right, Sergey Brin is the one who also co-founded Alphabets and Page Ranks with Larry Page.
Just like his business partner, Sergey Brin is also an American internet entrepreneur and computer scientist. But in December 2019, Brin stepped out as the president and CEO of the parent company of Google, Alphabet. He still remains the major shareholder of the company.
As of now, he is 9th on the list of the richest entrepreneurs of the world with a fortune net worth of $89.1 Billion.
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison is professionally known as Larry Ellison, the world’s best software salesman. He is the co-founder of the software company, Oracle. It is an American multinational computer technology company that is mainly in CRM databases.
With its recent achievement of NetSuite, it took a massive leap in cloud computing. He has invested in various futuristic corporations and one of those whose net worth didn’t shrink this year due to pandemic.
Maintaining his fortune net worth of $86.6 Billion, the owner of Oracle is at 10th on this list of the richest entrepreneurs in the world.
Lastly,
Now that you have gone through the list of the world’s richest entrepreneurs in 2021, we are hoping that their inspirational stories must have inspired you in some way to start up your own business.
These rich entrepreneurs are totally listed on monetary terms. However, we all must understand the fact that money isn’t the correct parameter to judge an entrepreneur or his success story.
Just like these successful yet richest entrepreneurs of the world, we must believe in ourselves which encourages us to work harder every day to achieve our goals.
NOTE: The data, facts and income statistics in this article has taken from various authentic sources on the internet. It can vary from time to time with estimated numbers.
