Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.
As the co-founder and CEO of Tesla, Elon leads all product design, engineering and global manufacturing of the company's electric vehicles, battery products and solar energy products.
Jeff Bezos , byname of Jeffrey Preston Bezos, (born January 12, 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.), American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.
Bill Gates, in full William Henry Gates III, (born October 28, 1955, Seattle, Washington, U.S.), American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company.
Who hasn't heard of Warren Buffett—one of the world's richest people, consistently ranking high on Forbes' list of billionaires? His net worth was listed at $100 billion as of June 2022. Buffett is known as both a savvy businessman and generous philanthropist.1
He is probably best known for being one of the world's most successful investors. This is why it's not surprising that Warren Buffett's investment strategy has reached mythical proportions. Buffett follows several important tenets and an investment philosophy that is widely followed around the globe. So just what are the secrets to his success? Read on to find out more about Buffett's strategy and how he's managed to amass such a fortune from his investments.
Larry Page, byname of Lawrence Edward Page, (born March 26, 1973, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.), American computer scientist and entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most popular sites on the Internet.
Page is a co-founder of Alphabet, the holding company for Google, the world's largest search engine operator. The Mountain View, California-based company was set-up in 1998. It reported revenue of $258 billion in 2021. The group's divisions include Gmail, Android and YouTube.
Sergey Brin, (born August 21, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), American computer scientist and entrepreneur who created, along with Larry Page, the online search engine Google, one of the most successful sites on the Internet.
Brin is a co-founder of Alphabet, the holding company that owns Google, the world's largest search-engine operator. The Mountain View, California-based company was set-up in 1998. It had revenue of $258 billion in 2021. The group's divisions include Gmail, Android and YouTube.
Ellison is the founder and largest shareholder of Oracle, a database company that had revenue of more than $40 billion in the year to May 31, 2021. He owns more than 40% of the Austin, Texas-based company as well as a stake in Tesla, a sailing team, the Indian Wells tennis event and real estate, including Hawaii's Lanai island.
Larry Ellison, in full Lawrence Joseph Ellison, (born August 17, 1944, New York City, New York, U.S.), American businessman and entrepreneur who was cofounder and chief executive officer (1977–2014) of the software company Oracle Corporation.
Steve Ballmer, in full Steven Anthony Ballmer, (born March 24, 1956, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), American businessman who was CEO of the computer software company Microsoft Corporation (2000–14).
Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker. He stepped down in 2014 and remains a shareholder in the Redmond, Washington-based company, which makes the Windows operating system, the Xbox game console and Surface tablet computers. Ballmer also owns the L.A. Clippers basketball team.
Michael Bloomberg, in full Michael Rubens Bloomberg, (born February 14, 1942, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.), American businessman and politician, who founded a financial data-services firm and served as mayor of New York City (2002–13).
Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and three-term Mayor of New York City whose innovations in government and philanthropy have made him a global leader on climate change, public health, education, and other critical issues facing America and the world. Throughout his career, he has been strongly committed to giving back through Bloomberg Philanthropies, which employs a unique, data-driven approach to its core focus areas: the Arts, Education, the Environment, Public Health, Government Innovation, and the Greenwood Initiative, which aims to accelerate the pace of wealth accumulation in Black communities and address systemic underinvestment in them. He has given away $12.7 billion so far, with $1.66 billion distributed in 2021 alone.
Mark Zuckerberg, in full Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984, White Plains, New York, U.S.), American computer programmer who was cofounder and CEO (2004– ) of Facebook, a social networking Web site.
Zuckerberg is co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook -- the world's largest social-network. The Menlo Park, California-based business had revenue of $118 billion in 2021 and has about 3.6 billion monthly users. Its initial public offering in 2012 was the biggest-ever technology IPO at the time.