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  • Top Famous and Successful Entrepreneurs in the World: International Entrepreneurs and Their Businesses

    Famous and popular entrepreneurs are remarkable individuals those have not only transformed industries but also inspired a global mindset shift. With diverse backgrounds and domains of expertise, they consistently lead the charts and serve as exceptional role models. These renowned business leaders have earned their status as the epitome of success and have become synonymous with achievement. What sets them apart is their unwavering self-belief, cultivated from an early age, and their relentless pursuit of success and recognition. Their stories are a testament to the power of hard work, dedication, and a resolute entrepreneurial spirit.

    Join us as we delve into the captivating life journeys of famous entrepreneurs and their business unlocking valuable lessons from these iconic figures in the business world that can inspire and empower you on your own path to success.

    What Makes an Entrepreneur Successful?

    There’s no one-size-fits-all formula for becoming a successful entrepreneur. If you look at the path of any well-known founder, you’ll notice it all started with a simple idea. But turning that idea into something real takes years of hard work, focus, adaptability, and smart planning, with the right support along the way.

    If you’re dreaming of building something of your own, start by thinking bigger than just a business, think about how your idea could make a difference or move the world forward. Once your idea is in place, it’s your commitment, strategy, and persistence that will carry it through. With time and dedication, you could be the next success story.

    List of Top Famous and Successful Entrepreneurs in the World:


    Top Billionaires Table

    S. No. Name Country Known For Net Worth, 2025
    1 Elon Musk USA Tesla, SpaceX, X (Twitter), Neuralink $420.6 Billion
    2 Jeff Bezos USA Amazon $221.8 Billion
    3 Sanjiv Bajaj India Bajaj Finserv, Finance & Insurance $6.4 Billion
    4 William Henry “Bill” Gates III USA Microsoft, Philanthropy $116.5 Billion
    5 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg USA Meta (Facebook) $231.6 Billion
    6 Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy India Infosys $4.6 Billion
    7 Larry Ellison USA Oracle Corporation $206.2 Billion
    8 Michael Saul Dell USA Dell Technologies $113.6 Billion
    9 Carlos Slim Mexico América Móvil, Telecom $91.5 Billion
    10 Sergey Brin USA Google, Alphabet Inc. $134.5 Billion
    11 Richard Branson UK Virgin Group $2.8 Billion
    12 Jack Ma Yun China Alibaba Group $26.3 Billion

    Elon Musk

    Name Elon Musk
    Date of Birth June 28, 1971
    Education University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS)
    Source of Wealth Tesla, SpaceX, Self Made
    Net Worth $420.6 billion (2025)
    Elon Musk - successful entrepreneurs in the world
    Popular Entrepreneurs in the World - Elon Musk

    Valued at $192 Billion, Elon Reeve Musk, is one of the most famous entrepreneurs and the richest person in the world. He is professionally known as Elon Musk.

    Elon Musk owns SpaceX the largest aerospace manufacturer, a clean energy and electric vehicle company, Tesla Inc., and The boring Company, a tunnel construction company. Elon Musk also co-founded Neuralink Corporation, a neurotechnology company, and owns an AI-based research laboratory, Open AI.

    Musk has a diversified interest in business fields. He has founded high-tech companies like The Boring Company, SpaceX, and Neuralink Corporation. He owns the largest aerospace manufacturing company and the world's biggest infrastructure company providing tunnel construction services making him the best in the list of top 10 international entrepreneurs.

    Elon Musk is a business tycoon, successful investor, industrial designer, and engineer. Musk also co-founded X.com which was merged with online bank Confinity.

    "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up." - Elon Musk

    Books recommended by Elon Musk -

    • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
    • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

    Jeff Bezos

    Name Jeff Bezos
    Date of Birth January 12, 1964
    Education Princeton University (BSE)
    Source of Wealth Amazon, Self Made
    Net Worth $221.8 billion (2025)
    Jeff Bezos - famous entrepreneurs in the world
    Best Entrepreneur in the World - Jeff Bezos

    Jeff Bezos, the ecommerce tycoon, was born on 12 January, 1964 in Mexico. This man is the founder and CEO of Amazon, the largest ecommerce company. His biological father is Ted Jorgensen but his mother, Jacklyn Gise divorced Ted and married another man, Mike Bezos.

    Jeff was graduated from Princeton University with degrees in Electrical engineering and Computer Science. He worked at Fintel to build their system for international trade.

    He later changed career to banking industry in 1988. But after 5 years, he decided to start his own company. In 1994, Jeff Bezos started Cadabra, an online bookstore. The name was later changed to Amazon as it starts with an "A", beginner of alphabet. Jeff got the initial capital of 300,000 from his parents to start the company.

    The company later transitioned into an ecommerce platform for all the product. Bezos has seen many ups and downs in his career. In fact, his company was almost bankrupted in 2002 due to over spending of funding. However, Jeff Bezos took Amazon out of that storm. As of 2023, Jeff Bezos is the third richest person in the world with a net worth of over $139 Billion.

    “A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.” – Jeff Bezos

    Books recommended by Jeff Bezos -

    • Built to Last by Jim Collins
    • Creation by Steve Grand
    • Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

    Amazon’s Top Acquisitions That Made It Giant Conglomerate
    Amazon’s annual revenue for 2021 was $469 Bn, a 21.7% increase from 2020. Here are the top ten Amazon acquisitions that made it a global conglomerate.
    StartupTalkyKinnary Nensee

    Sanjiv Bajaj

    Name Sanjiv Bajaj
    Date of Birth 2 November 1969
    Education University of Pune, University of Warwick, Harvard University
    Source of Wealth Diversified
    Net Worth $6.4 billion (2025)
    Sanjiv Bajaj - most successful entrepreneur
    Best Entrepreneur in the World - Sanjiv Bajaj

    Born on November 2, 1969, Sanjiv Bajaj is among one of the most successful Indian businessmen, investors, and philanthropists. He is the Chairman of Bajaj Finance Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of Bajaj Finserv Limited, the holding group company for all the financial services business of the Bajaj Group. The Bajaj Group is one of the oldest and largest conglomerates in India. Bajaj Finserv consisting of lending and insurance companies, has an annual revenue of over 410 crores USD for FY23.

    Under his leadership, Bajaj Finserv has emerged as one of India’s leading diversified financial services companies with solutions across lending, insurance, and wealth advisory category. With a consumer-first, digital approach and a culture focused on excellence through innovative disruption, Sanjiv is known for pioneering digital consumer financing in India, which helped transform the entire landscape of the financial services space.

    “We have always focussed on building long-term businesses built on excellence, sustainable profit.”

    List of all the Subsidiaries of Bajaj Group
    Bajaj group is one of the largest conglomerate with a market capitalization of Rs 3.9 trillion. Here is a list of All the Subsidiaries of Bajaj Group.
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    William Henry “Bill” Gates III

    Name William Henry “Bill” Gates III
    Date of Birth October 28, 1955
    Education Harvard University (dropped out)
    Source of Wealth Microsoft, Self Made
    Net Worth $116.5 billion (2025)
    Bill Gates - top entrepreneur in world
    Popular Entrepreneurs in the World - Bill Gates 

    Born on October 28th, 1955, William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In 1975, Gates with Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft with a vision to be a successful and famous Entrepreneur of all time. They never knew their fortune and their hard work would enlist them in the world’s largest Personal Computer software company. In recent years Bill Gates has devoted more time to philanthropic activities. Bill Gates is one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in the world.

    During his career journey at Microsoft, Bill Gates held the positions of chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Software Architect (CSA). Uptill May 2014 he had the highest individual shareholder. He has authored and co-authored several books. However, Bill Gates has been always ranked in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people since 1987, and he was the wealthiest entrepreneur from 1995 to 2007, then again in 2009, and then from 2014 to 2017. Bill Gates is the most famous entrepreneur and holds the Guinness World record for inventing "World's First Microcomputer" in 1980.

    "We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve."- Bill Gates

    Books recommended by Bill Gates -

    • Business Adventures by John Brooks
    • Tap Dancing to Work by Carol Loomis
    • Life is What You Make It by Peter Buffett

    Microsoft’s Marketing Strategies: How They Conquered the Tech World
    This article covers major marketing strategies that helped Microsoft achieve its growth and success.
    StartupTalkyArchana Karthikeyan

    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

    Name Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
    Date of Birth May 14, 1984
    Education Harvard University (dropped out)
    Source of Wealth Facebook, Self Made
    Net Worth $231.6 billion (2025)
    Mark Zuckerberg - most famous entrepreneur
    Popular Entrepreneurs in the World - Mark Zuckerberg

    Born on May 14th, 1984, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the famous businessman in the world. He is the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Facebook, now rebranded as Meta. Since his adulthood Mark was keen to take up his future as a smart, influential and famous entrepreneur. As of 2017, his net worth is estimated to be the US $128 billion, ranking him as the 5th richest person in the world.

    Facebook was launched by Zuckerberg from Harvard’s dormitory rooms on February 4, 2004. He was aided by his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Mark is among the most famous entrepreneurs in the world. Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year distinction since 2010. As of 2023, his net worth is estimated to be the $87.3 billion.

    "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected." - Mark Zuckerberg

    Books recommended by Mark Zuckerberg -

    • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
    • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind By Yuval Noah Harari
    • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

    Best 15 Books Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg
    In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg created a book club where he recommended and discussed a few books with the club. Check out the best books recommended by Mark Zuckerberg here.
    StartupTalkySarika Anand

    Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

    Name Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
    Date of Birth 20 August 1946
    Education National institute of Engineering, Mysore (BE), IIT Kanpur (MTech)
    Source of Wealth Infosys, Self Made
    Net Worth $4.6 billion (2025)
    Narayana Murthy - successful entrepreneur
    Narayana Murthy

    Born on the 20th, August 1946, Nagavara Ramarao is commonly referred to as Narayana Murthy and is an Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of Infosys, a multinational corporation providing business consulting, engineering, technology, and outsourcing services. His varied distinctive knowledge has led him to be a famous entrepreneur with showering success on his way. He is one of the famous Indian businessmen.

    He started Infosys in 1981 and served as its CEO from 1981 till 2002 and as its chairman from 2002 to 2011. Fortune magazine has listed Murthy as one of the greatest and top Indian entrepreneurs of all time. Time magazine has described him as the Father of the Indian IT sector due to his contribution to outsourcing in India.

    "It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea." -Narayan Murthy

    Books recommended by Narayana Murthy -

    • Winners Never Cheat Even in Difficult Times by Jon M Huntsman
    • What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
    • The Republic by Plato

    12 Unknown and Interesting Facts about Infosys
    Infosys is a multinational information technology company founded by N.R. Narayana Murthy and 6 founders. Here are some of the interesting facts about Infosys.
    StartupTalkyArijit Karan

    Lawrence Joseph “Larry” Ellison

    Name Lawrence Joseph Ellison
    Date of Birth August 17, 1944
    Education University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (no degree), University of Chicago (no degree)
    Source of Wealth Oracle, Self Made
    Net Worth $206.2 billion (2025)
    Larry Ellison - successful entrepreneurs in the world
    Larry Ellison

    Born on August 17th, 1944, Lawrence Joseph Ellison, commonly known as Larry Ellison is an world famous and most successful American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who has co-founded Oracle Corporation and thrives to become a famous entrepreneur by creating the best possible value of his software services to the most valued customer. Larry Ellison was the CEO of Oracle from its foundation until September 2014. At present he is the executive chairman and chief technology officer. Forbes magazine listed him as the seventh-wealthiest in the world and as the fifth-wealthiest person in America, with a fortune of $51.9 billion as of February 2017.

    “When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.” - Larry Ellison

    Books recommended by Larry Ellison -

    • The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists by Mathew Josephson
    • The Age of Napoleon by Susan Conner
    • The Fountainhead by Any Rand

    11 Unknown Facts About Oracle | 11 Oracle Interesting Facts
    Oracle comes as a powerful tech-based company. It holds a number of unique facts that only a few are aware of. Read here to learn more about it.
    StartupTalkySushree Sangeeta Behera

    Michael Saul Dell

    Name Michael Saul Dell
    Date of Birth February 23, 1965
    Education The University of Texas at Austin
    Source of Wealth Dell Technologies, Self Made
    Net Worth $113.6 billion (2025)
    Michael Saul Dell - famous entrepreneurs in the world
    Top Entrepreneurs in the World - Michael Saul Dell

    Born on February 23rd, 1965, Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist. Michael Dell is the founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of information technology and infrastructure solutions. Michael wasn’t the only famous entrepreneur to ride the computer boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s from rags to riches.

    Like Rod Canion of Compaq and Steve Jobs of Apple, Dell turned a fledgling start-up into a multibillion-dollar computer empire. But unlike the ill-fated Canion and Jobs, who lost control of their creations as they grew, Dell has managed to hold on to the reins of his maverick venture and achieve the unique distinction of being the computer industry’s longest-tenured CEO. As of February 2023, he is ranked the 24th richest person in the world by Wikipedia, with a net worth of $51.6 billion.

    "There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities." - Michael Dell

    Books recommended by Michael Dell -

    • The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson
    • Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin
    • Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler

    List of Top 15 Tech Companies in the World
    The global tech industry was worth $5 Trillion in 2022. Here is a list of 15 companies leading the tech industry throughout the world.
    StartupTalkyBhoraniya Huda Hifzur Rehman

    Carlos Slim

    Name Carlos Slim
    Date of Birth 28 January 1940
    Education Civil engineering
    Source of Wealth Grupo Carso, Self Made
    Net Worth $91.5 billion (2025)
    Carlos Slim - most successful entrepreneurs
    Top Entrepreneurs in the World - Carlos Slim

    Born on January 28th, 1940, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world from 2010 through 2013. Carlos Slim is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He secured his fortune from his large holdings in a significant number of Mexican companies through his empire, Grupo Carso.

    He was ranked #7 on Forbes list of billionaires since 31 July 2016, with a net worth that is estimated at more than $50 billion. His empire includes education, entertainment, energy, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, transportation, retail, real estate, media, hospitality, high-technology, sports, and financial services. However, his great effort and a constant hunger to be a famous entrepreneur have bought him a great tenure of success. He is holding a net worth of $86 billion in 2023.

    “Technology is going to transform people’s lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what’s going on and try to see where we can fit in.” – Carlos Slim

    Books recommended by Carlos Slim -

    • The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G Hagstorm
    • The Money Machine by Philip Coggan
    • Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs

    Sergey Brin

    Name Sergey Brin
    Date of Birth August 21, 1973
    Education University of Maryland, College Park (BS), Stanford University (MS)
    Source of Wealth Google, Self Made
    Net Worth $134.5 billion (2025)
    Sergey Brin - famous entrepreneur today
    Top Entrepreneurs in World - Sergey Brin

    Sergey Brin is a computer scientist. Sergey Brin founded Google with Larry Page. The two became billionaires as Google developed into the world's most popular search engine and a media giant. In 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock. In November 2016, Brin was ranked No. 13 on Forbes' "Billionaires" list, and No. 10 among U.S. billionaires who made the list. Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a controller shareholder and a board member. As of 2023, Sergey Brin has net worth of $102.1 billion.

    Books recommended by Sergey Brin -

    • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Edward Hutchings
    • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
    • How to Read a Book by Dr. Mortimer Adler

    List of All the Trillion-Dollar Companies in the World 2024
    Explore the list of all the trillion-dollar companies in the world that have achieved extraordinary market valuations and made their mark on the global economy.
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    Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

    Name Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
    Date of Birth 18 July 1950
    Education Stowe School
    Source of Wealth Virgin, Self Made
    Net Worth $2.8 billion (2025)
    Richard Charles Nicholas Branson - top entrepreneurs in world
    Top Entrepreneurs in World - Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

    Born on 18th, July 1950, Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Virgin Group, which manages more than 400 companies. Richard Branson is very popular for his lifestyle and charity. His vision was well accomplished since he started his journey from an early age.

    Richard started with a magazine called Student at the age of sixteen. Although it was his first business venture which curated a wonderful entrepreneurship journey which made him a famous entrepreneur. In 1972, he set up a mail-order record business and he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores respectively. Branson’s Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

    Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for “services to entrepreneurship” in March 2000. He became one of the most prominent figures in British culture for his work in retail, music, transport, taste for adventure, and for vast humanitarian work. As of 2023, The Sunday Times estimates Richard Branson and his family's collective net worth to be an impressive £2.41 billion.

    "There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you." - Richard Branson

    Books recommended by Richard Branson -

    • Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
    • Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom, Mattias Klum
    • One Hundred & One Reasons To Get Out of Bed by Natasha Milne

    Jack Ma Yun

    Name Jack Ma Yun
    Date of Birth 10 September 1964
    Education Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (2006), Hangzhou Normal University
    Source of Wealth Alibaba Group and Ant Group, Self Made
    Net Worth $26.3 billion (2025)
    Top Entrepreneurs in the World - Jack Ma Yun
    Top Entrepreneurs in the World - Jack Ma Yun

    Jack Ma, once an English teacher, became one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He started Alibaba, a huge online shopping company in China that changed the way people buy and sell things.

    In 1999, Jack Ma began Alibaba from his small apartment in Hangzhou with 18 friends. At that time, online shopping in China was almost unheard of. Alibaba first helped Chinese factories connect with buyers from other countries.

    But Jack Ma dreamed bigger.

    He later created Taobao, an online marketplace for everyday people in China. Today, both Alibaba and Taobao are leaders in China’s e-commerce world, helping millions of people run their businesses online.

    Jack Ma’s journey shows that even big dreams can come true—with hard work, strong belief, and never giving up.

    Books recommended by Jack Ma -

    • Tao Te Ching: by Stephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu 
    • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry I Porras 
    • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Paperback by Clay Shirky 
    • The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson 
    • Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson 
    • Business Cycles: by Joseph A. Schumpeter

    Conclusion

    The list above includes notable foreign entrepreneurs as well as successful entrepreneurs from India. These well-known individuals serve as a great source of inspiration, offering valuable insights into the path to success. Global entrepreneurs are driving innovation and creating impact across industries, inspiring a new generation of global entrepreneurs to think big and act boldly. Each of these popular and well known entrepreneurs has experienced both triumphs and challenges throughout their journey. As of 2025, these international entrepreneurs continue to work tirelessly for their companies, serving as a source of inspiration for aspiring entrepreneurs through their business ideas and stories. We hope that this compilation of renowned entrepreneurs and their stories has provided you with valuable lessons on navigating the entrepreneurial journey.

    FAQs

    Who are the most successful entrepreneurs in the world?

    The list of entrepreneurs who are most successful and famous in the world are:

    • Jeff Bezos
    • Elon Musk
    • Sanjiv Bajaj
    • Bill Gates
    • Mark Zuckerberg
    • Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
    • Sergey Brin
    • Carlos Slim
    • Michael Saul Dell
    • Larry Ellison
    • Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy
    • Jack Ma

    What industries have these famous entrepreneurs made an impact on?

    These entrepreneurs have made a significant impact across various industries, including technology, e-commerce, space exploration, social media, and telecommunications.

    Which entrepreneurs are on the list of the rags to riches stories of Indian entrepreneurs?

    Dhirubhai Ambani, Karsanbhai Patel, Kalpana Saroj, Patricia Narayan, Sunil Bharti Mittal, and Narayan Murthy are some of the entrepreneurs who can easily be included on the list of the rags to riches stories of Indian entrepreneurs.

    What are the characteristics of entrepreneurs?

    Entrepreneurs are risk-takers, innovative thinkers, and self-motivated individuals. They possess resilience, adaptability, and persistence to overcome challenges, while being goal-oriented and passionate about their ventures.

    What makes famous entrepreneurs stand out from others?

    These entrepreneurs stand out for their exceptional vision, innovative ideas, ability to disrupt industries, and remarkable business achievements. They have built global empires and transformed the way we live and do business.

    Can I learn from the experiences of these greatest entrepreneurs?

    Absolutely! By studying the lives and journeys of these greatest entrepreneurs, you can gain valuable insights, learn from their successes and failures, and apply their strategies and principles to your own entrepreneurial endeavors.

    Who is the most famous businessman?

    The most famous businessman today is Elon Musk, known for Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter).

  • Bill Gates’ Reaction to Phoebe, his Daughter, and her New Fashion Website

    According to a US media outlet, Phoebe Gates, the youngest daughter of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, recently disclosed that her rich father had been apprehensive when she initially chose to pursue entrepreneurship. Phoebe revealed that at first, her parents, Bill and Melinda French Gates, were concerned about her desire to pursue entrepreneurship. She stated that when she initially made her professional decision, her father questioned her if she was certain she wanted to pursue this. Phoebe’s education has to be finished first, according to Bill and Melinda Gates. After earning a degree in human biology from Stanford University in the spring of 2024, Phoebe Gates is now pursuing a career in sustainable design with her new business, Phia.

    ‘The Burnouts’ the Podcast

    Phoebe also launched her podcast, “The Burnouts”, with her business partner Sophia Kianni. The 22-year-old Gates family member talked about her new fashion company endeavour and her fears of being a nepotism product. She claimed that being called a “nepo baby” had made her uneasy, but she was also driven to establish her worth. She claimed that although she is extremely privileged to be from the Gates family, this is not what defines her. She wants to diverge from that and have her own identity and personality. How can she accomplish that in a way that will result in some kind of change? The answer is with the help of “The Burnouts” and “Phia”.

    Close Bond with Stella McCartney

    Phoebe acknowledged that she came to understand that the children of wealthy and well-known people might go their own way because of her mother’s association with Stella McCartney. Regarding McCartney, the daughter of The Beatles icon Paul McCartney who has achieved fame as a fashion designer, Phoebe told a media outlet, “She and my mum are actually good friends.”

    “Even as a little child, I would become really pleased when mother sent me things and brief comments. I have been requesting to meet with my mother for ages.

    “I think we are really deeply connected because that’s a lot of what I think about. ‘Okay, I’m my parents’ daughter, which gives me immense privilege, but that’s not what I’m defined by,'” Phoebe continued.

    Phoebe clarified that she frequently views situations from the perspective that there is no hidden cost. It’s simple to look back and believe that the various areas we study—such as human biology and law—do not necessarily directly link to the fashion tech work we’re doing now. Additionally, she believes it’s critical for people to understand that you can always alter course. You can always decide right away to do something quite different from what you’re doing right now.

  • Bill Gates Makes Microsoft’s Source Code Public

    The Microsoft co-founder reflected on the company’s early years on his Gates Notes blog on April 2nd in honour of the company’s 50th anniversary this year. Although Gates has undoubtedly written a lot of code over the past 50 years, he referred to this as “the coolest code I’ve ever written”. Further, he posted a picture of himself with the code displayed on a massive stack of paper. According to Gates, the cover image of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine, which showed the Altair 8800—a groundbreaking personal computer made by a little business named MITS—inspired him. The developers of Altair were contacted by 19-year-old Gates and his Harvard friend Paul Allen, who informed them that they had a BASIC programming language for the microprocessor that powered the Altair 8800. The Altair could be programmed using such software.

    How Microsoft came into Existence?

    For two months, Gates and his friends worked around the clock coding the software they said already existed. After Gates and Allen showed the code to the MITS president, the software was licensed. According to Gates, their new business, which they chose to name Micro-Soft, released Altair BASIC as its debut product. Gate added that the hyphen was eventually eliminated later. The rest, as they say, is the history of software. That 50-year-old code is available for download from Gates’ post. He went on to say that although computer programming has advanced significantly over the past 50 years, he is still quite pleased with the final product.

    ‘The Next Day’ by Melinda Gates

    Melinda French Gates, Gates’s ex-wife, was also in the news on April 2 since her new book, The Next Day, will be releasing on April 15. She is talking candidly about the dissolution of her marriage to Gates as that date draws near. After 27 years together and three kids, the couple were separated in 2021. Melinda French Gates claimed in her book that she was “having nightmares about a beautiful house collapsing all around her — and then waking up in a panic night after night” in 2019. She said she was troubled by Bill Gates’s meetings with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and agreed with his public admission that he wasn’t always faithful in the marriage.

    Since then, Bill Gates has expressed regret over his encounter with Epstein. Eventually, Melinda French Gates claimed that her nightmares would transform into pictures of her family perched on a cliff edge, where she “plummeted” into nothingness. According to media reports, she wrote, “I knew, in that moment, that I was going to have to make a decision — and that I was going to have to make it by myself.”

  • Bill Gates: From Tech Pioneer to Global Philanthropist – A Journey of Innovation and Impact

    Bill or Willian Henry Gates III is one of America’s most popular businessmen and philanthropists. He is best known for co-founding Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. He later held the positions of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President, and Chief Software Architect of the company. Bill Gates is also one of the largest shareholders until May 2014. 

    Bill Gates – Biography

    Full Name Willian Henry Gates
    Birthplace Seattle Washington, October 28, 1955
    Nationality American
    Education Lakeside Prep School, Harvard University (drop out)
    Occupation Businessman, Computer Programmer, Philanthropist, Writer
    Spouse Melinda Gates (divorced 2021)
    Parents Bill Gates Sr., Mary Maxwell
    Siblings Older siste (Kristianne), Younger sister (Libby)
    Children Jennifer Katherine Gates Nassar (d), Rory John Gates (s), Phoebe Adele Gates (d)
    Net Worth $128 billion

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    Bill Gates – Early Life and Education 

    Bill Gates in his Early Life
    Bill Gates in his Early Life

    Bill or William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955. He is the only son of William Gates Senior and his first wife, Mary Maxwell Gates. His lineage includes German, English, and Scots-Irish.

    His father was a highly recognized lawyer and his mother served on the Board of Directors of the First Interstate BancSystem and United Way of America. Bill’s maternal grandfather J.W. Maxwell was the president of a national bank.

    He also has an older sister Kristi and a younger sister Libby. When Bill was young his parents wanted him to become a lawyer as well but he had a different idea. 

    At the age of 13, he enrolled in the private Lakeside prep school, and his interest in programming started from there. When he was in the eighth grade, his school used the proceeds from the rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric computer for its students.

    He took an interest in BASIC programming and wrote his first computer program on this machine. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would execute his code perfectly. Once the donation was exhausted, Gates and some other students sought time from DEC PDP minicomputers.

    One such system was the PDP-10 which belonged to Computer Center Corporation (CCC). The company banned Bill Gates, his first partner Kent Evans, Ric Weiland, and Paul Allen after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to get free time. 

    Once the ban was removed, they offered to look for bugs in CCC’s software in exchange for time on the computer. Gates would often visit the company offices and study source code for multiple programs that ran on systems such as Fortran, Lisp, and machine language. This arrangement continued until the 70s when the company went out of business. 

    At the age of 17 years, Gates formed a venture with Allen called Traf-O-Data to make traffic counters based on Intel 8008 processors. When he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973 he was a national merit scholar.

    He scored 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs and enrolled at Harvard College in 1973. While staying at Harvard he met fellow student and future Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Just after two years, Gates left Harvard but Ballmer graduated.  

    Bill Gates – Career Highlights

    Starting Microsoft

    In January 1975, Bill read the issue of Popular Electronics that spoke about the Altair 8800. He then contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to inform them that he was working on a BASIC interpreter for this platform. MITS president agreed to meet them for a demonstration.

    But Bill had lied, they did not have an Altair, nor had written any code for it. Over the next few weeks they developed the Altair emulator and ran it on a minicomputer first, then the BASIC Interpreter. They held the demonstration at MITS’s Albuquerque office and it was an instant success. MITS hired the team and wanted to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC.

    Allen named their partnership ‘Micro-soft’, a simple combination of ‘microcomputer’ and ‘software’. Within a year they dropped the hyphen and registered their name as ‘Microsoft’ on November 26, 1976. 

    Microsoft’s Altair BASIC became very popular with computer fanatics, but sadly Bill discovered that a pre-market copy had been leaked out and was being distributed. In 1976, he wrote An Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter where he commented that more than 90% of Microsoft users had not paid for it and that Altair was in danger of removing the incentive for developers to produce, distribute, and maintain their high-quality software.

    This letter became highly unpopular but Gates persisted in his beliefs that software developers need to demand payment. In late 1976 Gates became independent from MITS and the company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington. 

    According to Gates he personally reviewed and rewrote every single line of code that the company produced in the first five years. Once when the company started growing, he moved into the managerial role and then the executive level.   

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    Partnering with IBM

    In July 1980, IBM approached Microsoft concerning their upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. This introduction was done by Gates’s mother who mentioned Microsoft to John Opel, the CEO of IBM.

    IBM requested Microsoft to write the BASIC Interpreter and mentioned that they needed an operating system as well. Bill then referred them to Digital Research, the makers of the CP/M operating system. 

    But sadly that deal fell through, and a few weeks later they proposed using 86-DOS. Microsoft made the deal to be the exclusive licensing agent of 86-DOS and became the complete owner later.

    While the contract only earned Microsoft a small fee, it was the origin of transforming Microsoft from a small business into a leading software brand. 

    Bill did not transfer the copyright on the operating system to IBM as he believed that others would clone IBM’s hardware. 

    In 1981, Bill Gates oversaw the total restructure of the company where he was made the Chairman of the Board with Paul Allen as his Vice President and Vice Chairman. 

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    Launch of Windows

    Bill Gates launched the first retail version of Microsoft Windows on the 20th of November, 1985 to compete with Apple’s Macintosh GUI. In August 1986, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop their OS.

    The operating system outgrew DOS after a decade until Windows 95 took over. One year after Bill stepped down Windows XP was released. In 2014, the latest version Windows 8.1 was released. 

    Bill Gates – Microsoft

    Microsoft Logo
    Microsoft Logo

    After reading about Altair 8800 (a microcomputer based on the Intel 8080 CPU) in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, Bill reached out to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to let them know about the BASIC interpreter he and Paul Allen were building for the platform. The duo wanted to draw attention to showcase their capabilities; they contacted MITS even though no code had been developed. After receiving a confirmation from the president of MITS, they developed a BASIC interpreter for the platform. This encouraged Bill and Paul to scale new heights and bring a change in the world of technology. They were hired by MITS and took a leave of absence from Harvard University.

    Paul Allen named their partnership as “Micro-Soft”, derived from “microcomputer” and “software”. Later on, they dropped the hyphen from the coined term and rebranded it Microsoft.

    After discovering that a pre-market copy of Microsoft Altair BASIC was leaked and distributed in the market, he wrote an open letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter that he and Paul Allen did not receive anything significant from the sales. This letter did not receive any attention from the public, and Microsoft separated from MITS. Its headquarters was shifted from Albuquerque to Bellevue in 1979.

    On November 20th 1985, Microsoft launched its first version of Windows and then secured a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system. This collaboration didn’t materialize due to conflict of opinions.

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    Bill Gates – Ideology

    The best creations revolve around what people actually care about. Bill was fond of computers and wanted to do something within the field. As he wrote the MS-DOS program for IBM, an industry behemoth was in the making.

    The most vital quality that budding entrepreneurs can learn from Gates is consistency in hard work. Success cannot be achieved without hard work. And hard work isn’t a one time activity, one needs to uphold the momentum as situations get tougher. In spite of being talented, he worked tirelessly. He knew that both go hand-in-hand.

    Evolution is never ending. To keep up with the flow is imperative. Even when Microsoft became popular in the eighties and nineties, Bill Gates was everything but complacent. Reinventing Microsoft with new products and offerings was on top of his priorities. Satya Nadella walks on Bill’s footsteps, and this is evident by Microsoft Azure’s dominance in the cloud segment.

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    Bill Gates – Life Story

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    Bill Gates Life Story

    Bill Gates – Philanthropy

    Bill Gates was inspired by the philanthropic work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller and created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000.

    They donated over $5 billion in stock value to their organization which was declared to be the world’s largest charitable foundation in 2013 with assets reportedly valued at around $34.6 billion. 

    The Foundation is organized into five program areas: the Global Development Division, the Global Health Division, the United States Division, and the Global Policy & Advocacy Division.

    It supports multiple public health projects such as granting aid to fight transmissible diseases like malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis, and has widespread programs to help eradicate polio. The fund also provides grants for scholarships and learning institutions.

    In 1999, Bill Gates donated $20 million to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the construction of a computer lab named the William H. Gates Building.  

    Since 2005, Gates and his foundation have taken a major interest in helping solve global sanitation issues. They announced policies such as ‘Reinvent the Toilet Challenge’ to help raise awareness and solutions for proper sanitation. 

    In 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates along with investor Warren Buffett signed the Giving Pledge where they committed to donate at least half of their wealth to charity. 

    In 2017, Gates pledged $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, to help start-ups working on Alzheimer’s research. 

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    Bill Gates – The Writer

    Bill Gates with his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
    Bill Gates with his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

    Bill Gates is not only a businessman and a philanthropist, but also a writer. In 1989 he wrote the foreword for the Microsoft Press book Learn BASIC Now by Michael Halvorson and David Rygmyr. He has also authored other books such as: 

    1. The Road Ahead was published in 1995 and co-authored with Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft executive) and Peter Rinearson (journalist) 
    2. Business @ the Speed of Thought published in 1999, co-authored with Collins Hemingway 
    3. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster in 2021 which presents what he learned over a decade studying climate change 
    4. How to Prevent the Next Pandemic in 2022 where he proposed a ‘Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization’ (GERM) team with over $1 billion in funding
    5. The first of his three memoirs, Source Code is set to be published in 2025 

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    Bill Gates – Awards & Recognitions

    Bill Gates has won multiple awards over the years. Some of his most distinctive awards and recognitions are: 

    1. Times listed Bill Gates as one of the most influential people in 1999, 2004, 2005, and 2006 respectively. 
    2. He and his wife, Melinda, and U2’s lead singer Bono were named 2005 Persons of the Year 
    3. Bill also received doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit (1996), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2002), Waseda University (2005), Tsinghua University (2007), Harvard University (2007), Karolinska Institute (2007), University of Cambridge (2009), and Northern Arizona University (2023). 
    4. Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award in 2002. 
    5. He was awarded the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award in 2006 
    6. In November 2006 he was awarded the Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work in the areas of health and education 
    7. In 2015 he and his wife received the Padma Bhushan for their social work in India
    8. In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama for his philanthropic work 
    9. In 2020, Gates received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for his contribution to Japan regarding technological transformations and advancement in global health 
    10. In 2022 he received the Hilal-e-Pakistan for his social work in Pakistan 

    Bill Gates – Leadership Style

    In the early years, Bill Gates was a highly active software developer and was a part of the company’s programming language products. But he slowly moved into the managerial and executive roles.

    He has not worked on the development team since TRS-80 Model 100. Jerry Pournelle commented that Gates liked Microsoft Excel because it was a neat hack. In the late 90s, he was criticized for his anti-competitive business tactics. 

    In 2006 Bill announced his shift from Microsoft to dedicate his time to philanthropy. He divided his responsibilities between his two successors – Ray Ozzie (in charge of management) and Craig Mundie (long-term product strategy). The final transition was completed on 27th June 2008. 

    Bill Gates – Personal Life 

    Bill is an avid reader and enjoys playing tennis, bridge, and golf. He is also an avid collector and has paid $30.8 million for the collection of scientific writings by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1994. He also purchased the original Lost on the Grand Banks painting in 1998 for $30 million. 

    Bill met his former wife Melinda at a trade fair in New York in 1987. After dating for 6 years they became engaged in 1993. They were married on 1st January 1994 at the 12th hole of the Jack Nicklaus golf course on the Hawaiian Island of Lana’i.

    They have three children – Jennifer Kaherine Gates Nassar (1996), Rory John Gates (1999), and Phoebe Adele Gates (2002). Sadly on 3rd May 2021, the couple announced the dissolution of their marriage of 27 years. 

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    FAQs

    Who is Bill Gates?

    Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft.  

    What was Bill Gates’s role in the tech industry?

    He played a pivotal role in the personal computer revolution, leading Microsoft to become a dominant force in software development with its Windows operating system. 

    What is Bill Gates’ educational qualifications?

    Bill Gates is a Harvard University dropout.

  • List of 16 Biggest Dropout Entrepreneurs in the World

    The saying “Winners never quit, and quitters never win” is true, but it seems ironic in the case of entrepreneurs who have quit their academics to pursue their goals instead. Guess what, though? They have accomplished much more than getting good grades from school or university.

    People continue to question the decisions that were made by dropouts, asking, “Will they thrive as successful contributors to society?” But trust me when I say that going from being a dropout student with nothing in their pocket to becoming one of the most successful millionaire entrepreneurs in the world has greatly increased respect for determination and commitment to one’s aims.

    Biggest Dropout Entrepreneurs in the World
    Bill Gates
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Henry Ford
    Steve Jobs
    Larry Ellison
    Larry Page
    Jan Koum
    Evan Williams
    Jack Dorsey
    Amancio Ortega
    Orji Uzor Kalu
    Michael Dell
    John Mackey
    Azim Premji
    Kunal Shah
    Ritesh Agarwal

    Biggest Dropout Entrepreneurs in the World

    Dropping out of school or college is considered one of the biggest mistakes in one’s life. However, there are certain people who have proved this notion wrong by turning this mistake into huge achievements. The following is a list of the biggest entrepreneurs in the world, who dropped out of their education in the middle.

    Bill Gates

    Name Bill Gates
    Net Worth $114 Billion (2022)
    Source Microsoft Corporation
    Dropout From Harvard University

    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates

    Bill Gates is known to be the inventor of the college-dropout billionaire trope in 1975 when he left Harvard to start his career in establishing Microsoft. At the age of 13,  he wrote his first software program to get admission to a private Lakeside school, which revealed his affinity for programming.

    Whilst at Lakeside school, Gates earned the title of National Merit Scholar, in which he scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT. To support his father’s dream of making him becoming a lawyer, he enrolled at Harvard as a pre-law student in 1973, and aced mathematics and computer science courses.

    After dropping out of Harvard, in 1975 Gates founded ‘Microsoft’ with his friend Paul, and produced the first-of-its-kind programming language BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 ‘Microcomputer,’ an early personal computer. He had chosen the path, which he is good at, not the path his parents wanted him to choose.

    Mark Zuckerberg

    Name Mark Zuckerberg
    Net Worth $70 Billion (2022)
    Source Meta (formerly Facebook)
    Dropout From Harvard University

    Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg

    One of the famous media magnates is the CEO of Meta Platforms- Mark Zuckerberg. He attended his schooling at Ardsley High school before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. He started using computer and software programming in middle school, where he built a program that connected wireless communication between his and his father’s dental office.

    In 2002, Mark got into Harvard to study Psychology and Computer Science and was already known as a ‘programming prodigy’. At that time, Mark came up with a new code for his new website- Facebook, however, faced a lot of problems in establishing it, so he decided to quit Harvard in 2005 to focus on building his dream, Facebook.

    Henry Ford

    Name Henry Ford
    Net Worth $190 billion, (1947, adjusted for inflation)
    Source Ford Motor Company
    Dropout From High School

    Henry Ford
    Henry Ford

    The automobile ruler created a revolutionary movement in transportation and the automobile industry. Ford completed his eighth grade at a one-room school and instead of attending sophomore, he enrolled in a bookkeeping course at a commercial school.

    Contradictory, Ford was much more interested in building something big than sitting at a desk & bookkeeping. When he was 12 years old, that was the first time he found a purpose in his life when he witnessed the operation of a Nichols and Shepard road engine from a watch gifted by his father. In 1882 Ford returned to his family farm after working as an apprentice machinist in Detroit.

    While he was working on the family farm, he became adept at operating the Westinghouse portable steam engine, whereby he completed his first gasoline car powered by a two-cylinder, four-horsepower engine and eventually built three cars in his home workshops, which was a stepping stone to the development of the renowned brand ‘Ford’.

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    Steve Jobs

    Name Steve Jobs
    Net Worth $10.2 billion (2011)
    Source Apple Inc.
    Dropout From Reed College

    Steve Jobs
    Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs, the innovation king, was also once a problematic child during his school times, where he played a lot of pranks on teachers and never showed a slight interest in studies.

    He even skipped 5th Grade and transferred straight into 6th grade at Crittenden Middle school, where he became a victim of the bully. In fact, his family moved to Los Altos and joined Homestead High school for a better life, which was surrounded by an environment of engineering families.

    In 1971, Steve Jobs decided to join the electronics club with his best friend Wozniak, who got into the University of California, Berkeley. At that time, Wozniak designed a low-cost digital ‘blue box’ to manipulate the telephone network, by allowing free long-distance calls.

    In 1971, Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College after the very first semester, because he didn’t want to waste his parent’s money on an education that seemed meaningless to him and worked as a technician at Atari, Inc. in 1972. In 1976, Jobs, and fellow college dropout Steve Wozniak, built the Apple I in his parent’s garage.

    Larry Ellison

    Name Larry Ellison
    Net Worth $91 Billion (2022)
    Source Oracle Corporation
    Dropout From University of Chicago

    Larry Ellison
    Larry Ellison

    Larry Ellison was once a dropout student, but now he was listed as one of the wealthiest people on the planet by Bloomberg Billionaires Index in July 2022. Larry Ellison attended South Shore High school and later enrolled as a pre-med student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

    At the University, he was rewarded and named ‘Science student of the year. Unexpectedly, he hadn’t appeared for his final exams as his adoptive mother passed away. In 1966, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he learned computer design and technology, and later dropped out of it.

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    Larry Page

    Name Larry Page
    Net Worth $83 Billion (2022)
    Source Google
    Dropout From Stanford University

    Larry Page
    Larry Page

    Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, found himself attracted to computers when he was 6 years old and even became the first kid in the rudimentary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor.

    At the age of 12, he wanted to start a company by inventing new things and eventually developed an interest in technology and business. Larry Page was a radiant student in schooling as well as an undergrad. He did his schooling at Montessori Radmoor and  East Lansing High School.

    Page received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science from Stanford both in the field of computer science. After joining his: Ph.D. and he started his research in Computer Science at Stanford University and pursued his full-time interest in building the World Wide Web. However, in 1999 Larry couldn’t complete his Ph.D. degree and dropped out of college to focus more on his main aim.

    Jan Koum

    Name Jan Koum
    Net Worth $13.3 Billion (2022)
    Source WhatsApp
    Dropout From San Jose University

    Jan Koum
    Jan Koum

    The co-founder of Whatsapp Jan Koum enrolled at San Jose State University because he was interested to learn to program. At the same time, he worked at Ernst & Young as a security tester. In 1997, He left his studies mid-way, because he was hired by Yahoo as an infrastructure engineer.

    Evan Williams

    Name Evan Williams
    Net Worth $1.8 Billion (2022)
    Source Twitter
    Dropout From University of Nebraska

    Evan Williams
    Evan Williams

    In Clarks, Nebraska, Evan Williams was raised on family property. Before quitting, he spent three semesters enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

    Williams worked as a contractor writing software for Hewlett-Packard and Intel and then also secured a position at Google. Later, he left his position at Google to start his entrepreneurial journey of establishing Twitter.

    Jack Dorsey

    Name Jack Dorsey
    Net Worth $4.2 Billion (2022)
    Source Twitter
    Dropout From New York University

    Jack Dorsey
    Jack Dorsey

    A 1999 New York University dropout is the co-founder of Twitter and Square, two of the most talked-about firms in recent memory. Jack founded Twitter along with Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass after briefly working as a masseur and a fashion designer. At this time, Dorsey is valued around $5.6 billion.

    The above graph shows the percentage of Forbes Billionaires by their educational institute type. The graph is made as per the data shared by entrepreneur.com and the study conducted by Wai & Rindermann.
    The above graph shows the percentage of Forbes Billionaires by their educational institute type. The graph is made as per the data shared by entrepreneur.com and the study conducted by Wai & Rindermann.

    Amancio Ortega

    Name Amancio Ortega
    Net Worth $61.6 Billion (2022)
    Source Inditex
    Dropout From School

    Amancio Ortega
    Amancio Ortega

    Amancio Ortega, dropped out of school at the age of 14, because his father was a railway worker and couldn’t afford much to pay. So, Amancio Ortega joined a local shirtmaker named ‘Gala’, which actually taught him how to make clothes by hand and inspired him to build one of the largest clothing retailer companies, Inditex, known for its chain of Zara and Bershka.

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    Orji Uzor Kalu

    Name Orji Uzor Kalu
    Net Worth $1.1 Billion (2022)
    Source SLOK Holding
    Dropout From Nigerian University

    Orji Uzor Kalu
    Orji Uzor Kalu

    Orji Uzor Kalu was 19 years old when he was dismissed from the Nigerian university after being found instigating a series of student riots. In order to start trading goods like rice, sugar, and palm oil, he requested $35 from his mother.

    By diversifying his investments, he became a millionaire by the age of 20. He was ranked by Forbes as the 49th richest person in Africa in 2015. He originally established SLOK Holding, a West African company with profit shareholding in shipping, banking, manufacturing, etc.

    Michael Dell

    Name Michael Dell
    Net Worth $56.1 Billion (2022)
    Source Dell Technologies
    Dropout From University of Texas

    Michael Dell
    Michael Dell

    In 1983, Michael Dell was a student at the University of Texas, although he occupied much of his energy in his college dorm room updating and hawking devices. Dell founded PCs Ltd. at the age of 19, which eventually grew into Dell Computer Corporation in 1987.

    He then obtained a license from the State of Texas to submit bids for big contracts after starting to sell upgrade modules for personal computers from his hostel. At the age of 27, Michael Dell was the youngest CEO on the Fortune 500 list. He currently has a net worth of almost $20 billion.

    John Mackey

    Name John Mackey
    Net Worth $85 Million (2022)
    Source Whole Foods Market
    Dropout From Texas University

    John Mackey
    John Mackey

    John Mackey studied Philosophy and Theology at Texas University, Austin in 1978. Renee Lawson Hardy and he first met when he enrolled in a vegetarian co-op at the university.

    The couple dropped out of school and founded SaferWay, the first vegetarian supermarket in Austin. It ultimately paved the way for Whole Foods, the 30th leading retailer in the United States measured by revenues in 2014.

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    Azim Premji

    Name Azim Premji
    Net Worth $9 Billion (2022)
    Source Wipro
    Dropout From Stanford University

    Azim Premji
    Azim Premji

    Azim Premji is another biggest entrepreneurs on the list of dropout entrepreneurs. is the son of a very famous businessman, who is also known as the Rice king of Burma, Mohamed Hashem Premji. Azim had to drop out of his education at Stanford because he had to take care of his family’s oil business after his father’s sudden demise.

    Subsequently, Azim Premji became solely responsible to look after his father’s business in India. He completed his studies to get a Bachelor of science in electronic engineering degree from Stanford University after 30 years.

    Kunal Shah

    Name Kunal Shah
    Source CRED
    Net Worth $809 Million (2022)
    Dropout From Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

    Kunal Shah
    Kunal Shah

    Kunal Shah graduated from Wilson College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. He then enrolled at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies for an MBA degree, which he ultimately left. His initial business was PaisaBack, which provided kickbacks from merchants. Among many of the top college dropout Indian entrepreneurs, Kunal Shah is one of the most well-known names.

    He is a founding member of FreeCharge, a reputable internet recharge service. 2012 saw the launch of the business, which Snapdeal soon bought. With its first three recharges and matching-value incentives, FreeCharge completely changed the way that internet recharges work. He is currently known best for being the founder of one of India’s unicorn startups CRED.

    Ritesh Agarwal

    Name Ritesh Agarwal
    Net Worth $1.1 Billion (2020)
    Source OYO Rooms
    Dropout From Indian School of Business & Finance, New Delhi

    Ritesh Agarwal
    Ritesh Agarwal

    One of the youngest Indian Billionaires, Ritesh Agarwal, the founder of OYO Rooms. He was from a middle-class family. He completed his higher schooling at St. John’s Senior Secondary School and moved to New Delhi for college in 2011.

    But, shortly, he quit as his project idea of Oravel stays Pvt Ltd was selected by the Thiel Fellowship program in 2013, which granted 100,000 USD, with which he launched OYO rooms.

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    Conclusion

    These are some of the most successful entrepreneurs who have found greatness despite not having the appropriate education. They serve as the best illustration that what you study doesn’t define you. It is your hard work and determination and passion that speaks for you.

    FAQs

    Who is the most successful dropout?

    Bill Gates is the most successful dropout in terms of net worth. He possesses a net worth of $110.5 billion as of July 2022.

    How many billionaires have no college degree?

    As per the billionaire census by Wealth X (2015), about 3 out of the 10 billionaires have no proper college degree. Some of the most popular names who became successful without a proper college degree include Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Amancio Ortega, and more.

    Who is a famous Harvard dropout?

    Some of the famous Harvard dropouts are:

    • Bill Gates
    • Mark Zukerberg
    • Robert Frost
    • David Foster Wallace
    • Matt Damon

  • Top 76 Books Recommended By Bill Gates (By Year)

    Books are a big source of inspiration, it helps you travel the world and provide the knowledge that you needed, in a beautiful and subtle way. A person can find worldly knowledge and information in books. Not only that, it can create a deep impact on our minds and provide us with enough motivation to live our lives freely.

    There are a huge number of successful people who recommend books because the books lead them to self-improvement and are their cause of euphoria. They can be entertaining, motivational and an eye-opener; sometimes it also helps you in realizing your own dream.

    One of the most successful people in the world, the founder of Microsoft, William Henry Gates III, also known as Bill Gates is a huge bibliophile. It is said that he reads at least 50 books every year and that is something enormous. Even in his busy schedule, he always finds a way to read books, and the best part he in his own dedicated blog called GatesNotes shares about the book he is reading and recommends the best ones. So, are you not curious to know, what the founder of one of the biggest technology companies read?

    In this article, we will disclose all the books that Bill Gates has recommended over the span of 7 years. This list is comprised of science, technology, business, fiction, non-fiction, history, biography, and others So, let’s get started.

    Bill Gates’s love for books knows no bounds, every year in the summer and winter he recommends some of his favourite books that he has read in his blog. Some of the popular books from the last seven years are listed below. So, Let’s look at the Books Recommended by Bill Gates.

    “Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.”

    -Bill Gates

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    1. The Magic Of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True

    Author: Richard Dawkins

    Originally published: 15 September 2011

    The Magic Of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
    The Magic Of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True

    This 2011 book written by Richard Dawkins made its place on the list of Gates’s recommended books in 2015. The book is a favourite amongst children and young adults as it is written for them. It deals with re-telling the myths that are famous all over the world.

    The origins of particular phenomena are also penned here. It is filled with interesting facts about the world that one should know about. This is a good book on science and answers the questions that one can have about the universe.

    2. Hyberbole And A Half

    Author: Allie Brosh

    Originally published: 29 October 2013

    Hyperbole And A Half
    Hyperbole And A Half

    The 2013 book written by Allie Brosh is all about the stories of her daily life full of hysterical stories that are extremely funny. Hyperbole And A Half is a blog and a webcomic. Then it has now become a book, where all the stories including the author’s childhood experience are also contained in this book.

    3. What If?

    Author: Randall Munroe

    Originally published: 2 September 2014

    What if
    What if 

    This book by Munroe is non-fiction in which the author answers all the hypothetical science-related questions that are sent by the people who read his comic site ‘xkcd’. He compiles all the answers to the questions that he has answered in his webcomic and has published them in this book.

    4. On Immunity

    Author: Eula Biss

    Originally published: 30 September 2014

    On Immunity
    On Immunity

    This 2014 non-fiction book reasons why vaccination is so important for children. All the myths about the conception of immunity. It breaks all those misconceptions that people have about vaccination and are against it. This book showcased how vaccination is important for children as we cannot protect them on our own.

    5. How To Lie With Statistics

    Author: Darrel Huff

    Originally published: 1954

    How To Lie With Statistics
    How To Lie With Statistics

    This book by Darrel Huff can be considered as an introduction of statistics to readers. It elaborates on the misuse of statistics that can happen through errors while interpreting statistics that can lead to the wrong conclusions.  

    6. Should We Eat Meat?

    Author: Vaclav Smil

    Originally published: 2013

    Should We Eat Meat?
    Should We Eat Meat?

    This 2013 book talks about how eating meat has played a role in the evolution of humans and how its influence is increasing in recent days. The book also details the production of meats in modern days. This book answers if we can produce meat for people without harming the planet. This book is very informative and does not just answer if we should eat meat or not.

    7. The Road To Character

    Author: David Brooks

    Originally published: 14 April 2015

    The Road To Character
    The Road To Character

    In the month of December 2015, Bill Gates included The Road To Character written by the columnist of The New York Times, David Brooks. This book has blended psychology, politics, and spirituality together and talks about the deeper values that we should have in our life.

    It shows how some of the world’s greatest thinkers are able to create a strong and rich inner character. It is considered one of the best books for self-improvement and is named one of the best books of the year 2015 by The Economist.

    8. Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words

    Author: Randall Munroe

    Originally published: 24 November 2015

    Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words
    Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff In Simple Words

    The book is quite interesting and fascinating because the author just used 1000 English words that are very much common to explain the complicated things of various complex 54 subjects. The subject includes pencils, atom bombs, and aeroplane engines. The book also has some jokes to entertain the readers.

    9. Being Nixon: A Man Divided

    Author: Evan Thomas

    Originally published: 16 June 2015

    Being Nixon: A Man Divided
    Being Nixon: A Man Divided

    This book is a New York Times bestselling biography of Richard Nixon. This book follows the growth of Nixon and his psychological profile, his childhood influences, and most importantly his career in politics. An insightful look into his political journey and how some of his decisions and weaknesses prove to be the villain and destroyed his presidency.

    10. Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open

    Author: Julian M. Allwood, Jonathan M, Cullen, and Mark A. Carruth

    Originally published: 2012

    Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open
    Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open

    This 2012 book talks about how we should save energy for the future. It is a follow-up to the book Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air and talks about how one should concentrate on making materials in such a way that they can be sustainable and will be available for future generations.

    11. Eradication: Ridding The World Of Diseases Forever?

    Author: Nancy Leys Stepan

    Originally published: 2011

    Eradication: Ridding The World Of Diseases Forever?
    Eradication: Ridding The World Of Diseases Forever?

    This book by award-winning historian Nancy Stepan talks about the advantages and disadvantages of helping the world to get rid of some diseases one by one. The different approaches that have been tried to erase the diseases and the time that it failed to reach a conclusion that proved a success. Gates said that the book is written in an academic style.

    12. Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success

    Author: Carol S. Dweck

    Originally published: 28 February 2006

    Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success
    Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success

    This book showcases how our mindset can change our entire life. We can achieve success in almost every area, be it school, work, or sports, if we have the right mindset, nothing is impossible. A fixed mindset will help you in the growth of your life. This book is truly very inspirational and helps you in getting motivation.

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    13. Sapiens: A Brief History Of Human Kind

    Author: Yuval Noah Harari

    Originally published: 2011

    Sapiens: A Brief History Of Human Kind
    Sapiens: A Brief History Of Human Kind

    Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens made a place in the list of Bill Gates’s summer book recommendations in the year 2016. This book answers the question, what makes us sapiens? This 2011 book talks about the history and the future of human beings on the planet and busts some ancient myths that are part of human society for a long time. This Non-fiction was even a part of Gates’s spring vacation.

    14. Seveneves

    Author: Neal Stephenson

    Originally published: 19 May 2015

    This book is a science fiction novel and tells the story of all the efforts made to save human beings when the Earth faces an apocalypse after the moon got destroyed. All the nations across the world joined their hand to ensure the survival of the humans in outer space at the time of the apocalypse.

    15. How Not To Be Wrong

    Author: Jordan Ellenberg

    Originally published: 29 May 2014

    How Not To Be Wrong
    How Not To Be Wrong

    Another New York Times Best Selling book that made its place on Gates’s list. This 2014 book showcases how different economics and philosophies of society are connected with mathematics and statistical principles. Basically how mathematics is connected with our everyday.

    16. The Vital Question

    Author: Nick Lane

    Originally published: 2015

    The Vital Question
    The Vital Question

    This book by Nick Lane talks about the origin of life and its evolution. The vital question tries to answer the complexity between the biology of life and energy. The book mainly focuses on answering why are we here and why are we like this?

    17. The Power To Compete

    Author: Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani

    Originally published: 20 October 2014

    The Power To Compete
    The Power To Compete

    As Gates said in his blog, if someone wants to know more about Japan, it is a must-read for them. This book gives the viewpoint of all the issues that are faced by Japan and they are not recognized despite being the fourth-largest economy in the world. The authors talk about how the problem can be solved to make the country’s future more bright.

    18. String Theory

    Author: David Foster Wallace

    Originally published: 10 May 2016

    This book by David Foster Wallace may sound like something that deals with Physics but in reality, this book talks about Wallace’s favourite sport, Tennis. In the year 2016, this was one of the many books on the list of Gate’s winter collection. It contains everything about tennis, a competitor’s insight, a fan’s enthusiasm, and many other things. A must-read for a sports enthusiast.

    19. Shoe Dog

    Author: Phil Knight

    Originally published: 26 April 2016

    Shoe Dog
    Shoe Dog

    Almost everyone is familiar with the sportswear brand Nike, this book is written by its co-founder Phil Knight and talks about the history of Nike and the challenges that the company faces, and how it has become one of the most profitable and recognizable companies in the whole world.

    20. The Gene

    Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Originally published: 17 May 2016

    The Gene
    The Gene

    This 2016 book is all about genes and genetic researches. Siddhartha Mukherjee is a physician and oncologist who focuses on the power of genes that is related to the traits of human beings in this book.

    21. The Myth Of The Strong Leader

    Author: Archie Brown

    Originally published: 2014

    The Myth Of The Strong Leader
    The Myth Of The Strong Leader

    This book by Archie Brown explains that a strong leader will not always be a successful leader. This book features Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Tony Blair and discusses the types and qualities of their leadership.

    22. The Grid

    Author: Gretchen Bakke

    Originally published: 26 July 2016

    The Grid
    The Grid

    The book talks about how the electrical grid in America that are made in the 20th century is now becoming a nuisance in the present time as they do not fit in modern times. It also talks about the various challenges faced by the grid in recent times.

    23. Born A Crime

    Author: Trevor Noah

    Originally published: 15 November 2016

    Born A Crime
    Born A Crime

    This book by Trevor Noah was published in the year 2016 and Bill Gates put it in his 2017 book list. Trevor Noah is an award-winning comedian from South Africa. It has the detailed story of Noah’s life and how he was termed illegal for being born of a mixed race. The struggles and the prejudices he faced while growing up is all detailed here.

    24. The Heart

    Author: Maylis de Kerangal

    Originally published: 2013

    The Heart
    The Heart

    It is a medical fiction novel that surrounds the death of a 19-year-old, Simon Limbres who died in a car accident. The story then focuses on how the transplantation of Simon’s heart affects his parents, the doctors, the recipient, and their families in the span of 24 hours.

    25. Hillbilly Elegy

    Author: J.D. Vance

    Originally published: 28 June 2016

    Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy

    The book deals with the themes of class and social mobility, economic inequality, and family. It talks about his ethnic Appalachian values, their social problems. It is also a New York Times Bestseller book that deals with health and economic problems as well.

    26. Homo Deus

    Author: Yuval Noah Harari

    Originally published: 2015

    Homo Deus
    Homo Deus

    The book is all about the future of humans. It also states that in the 21st-century humans will make an attempt in gaining God-like powers and immortality and states that with technological powers developing Human may not be the dominant species in front of highly intelligent algorithms.

    27. A Full Life

    Author: Jimmy Carter

    Originally published: 7 July 2015

    A Full Life
    A Full Life 

    This 2015 book is an autobiography of the author Jimmy Carter who was the former American President. It is after his 90th birthday how has lived a pretty interesting life.

    28. Energy And Civilization: A History

    Author: Professor of Geography Vaclav Smil

    Originally published: 2017

    Energy And Civilization: A History
    Energy And Civilization: A History

    This book by Professor Vaclav Smil details how energy makes life possible and is a prime factor to make society works. The book talks about fossil fuel-driven civilization that is extremely dependent on energy and how humans are the only beings that can create energies outside their bodies through different technologies.

    29. The Best We Could Do

    Author: Thi Bui

    Originally published: 7 March 2017

    The Best We Could Do
    The Best We Could Do

    The book follows the journey of the author, Thi Bui’s parents. Their life before the Vietnam War and the situation during the war and how they escape from Vietnam and become a refugee in the United State of America. The theme also includes the trauma that one suffers after the war.

    30. Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City

    Author: Mathew Desmond

    Originally published: 1 March 2016

    Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City
    Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City

    The book follows the journey of eight families during the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and how they were struggling to pay their rent. The issues that are highlighted in this book are economic problems, extreme poverty and affordable housing.

    31. Believe Me

    Author: Eddie Izzard

    Originally published: 13 June 2017

    Believe Me
    Believe Me

    It is a New York Times Bestseller book that is an autobiography of Izzard himself and talks about how the death of his mother affected him in his childhood and shaped his future. It also talks about his life in comedy, film, politics, and philanthropy.

    32. The Sympathizer

    Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Originally published: 2 April 2015

    The Sympathizer
    The Sympathizer

    This 2015 best-selling novel received the Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for Fiction. The story deals with love, friendship, and betrayal and is about a communist double agent and classic war fiction where the protagonist’s political belief is standing against his loyalties.

    33. Leonardo da Vinci

    Author: Walter Isaacson

    Originally published: 17 October 2017

    This 2017 book by Walter Isaacson made it on Gates’s list in the year 2018. This book detailed how one of the greatest painter’s skills can also be improved in us. Observation, curiosity, and imagination can be developed and nurtured in ourselves. The book also stated how the great painter was an immense believer in science and technology. Bill Gates considered Leonardo one of the most fascinating people ever in his blog.

    34. Everything Happened For A Reason And Other Lies I’ve Loved

    Author: Kate Bowler

    Originally published: 6 February 2018

    Everything Happened For A Reason And Other Lies I've Loved
    Everything Happens For A Reason And Other Lies I’ve Loved

    This 2018 book is an autobiography that focuses on the life of the author herself. Kate Bowler is a 35-year-old professor, after giving birth to her baby, she started experiencing stomach pain and was diagnosed with colon cancer. This book talks about her life history and all the struggles she has gone through.

    35. Lincoln In The Bardo

    Author: George Saunders

    Originally published: 14 February 2017

    Lincoln In The Bardo
    Lincoln In The Bardo

    This book is an experimental novel by George Saunders that deals with how Abraham Lincoln deals with his grief after the death of his son, William Wallace Lincoln. It is a very critically acclaimed book that has been ranked as one of the best novels of the decade by many publications.

    36. Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything

    Author: David Christian

    Originally published: 14 May 2018

    Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything
    Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

    This 2018 book talks about the creation of the Universe and how it is now a complex planet where over 7 billion humans exist. It talks about the big bang, the creation of living and non-living beings, and everything that has led to recent times.

    37. Factfulness

    Author: Hans Rosling

    Originally published: 3 April 2019

    Factfulness
    Factfulness

    The book was published after the death of Hans Rosling. This book talks about how most people are actually wrong about the situation of the world. Here, the author talks about how it is unfair to divide the world into developed and developing countries. As per him, people who deemed the world as unhealthy, full of poverty are actually misinformed.

    38. Educated

    Author: Tara Westover

    Originally published: 18 February 2018

    The 2018 memoir by Tara Westover and made its place in Gates’s list as well as in the best sellers list. This book describes Westover’s life, her father’s paranoia of hospitals. Her family was isolated from the world and she was 17 years old when she first enters school and how she educated her own self.

    39. Army Of None

    Author: Paul Scharre

    Originally published: 24 April 2018

    Army Of None
    Army Of None

    This 2018 book explores what happened when the era of automatic weapons arrive. In a world where weapons that can identify their own target exists, what will be the outcome if they get hacked? This book gives all those answers.

    40. Bad Blood

    Author:John Carreyrou

    Originally published: 21 May 2018

    Bad Blood
    Bad Blood

    This 2018 non-fiction book follows the rise and fall of the company, Theranos by Elizabeth Holmes. It was a multi-billion dollar biotech startup. How Elizabeth Holmes was involved in a scam and everything else. This book has also won the 2018 Financial Times and Mckinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

    41. 21 Lesson For The 21st Century

    Author: Yuval Noah Harari

    Originally published: 23 August 2018

    This 2018 book gives insight into all the important issues that exist in the present world. It covers all the political, social, technological, and existential situations and how should we deal with them. This book provides all those lessons to the readers.

    42. The Headspace Guide To Meditation And Mindfulness

    Author: Andy Puddicombe

    Originally published: 2011

    The Headspace Guide To Meditation And Mindfulness
    The Headspace Guide To Meditation And Mindfulness

    This book teaches the strong techniques of meditation that helps in providing a positive impact in your life. This also conveys that meditation can help in changing your life and one can achieve a different level of calmness and happiness through it. One just needs to give 10 minutes of their day to meditation.

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    43. Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis And Change

    Author: Jared Diamond

    Originally published: 7 May 2019

    Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis And Change
    Upheaval: How Nations Cope With Crisis And Change

    This Non-Fiction by Jared Mason Diamond was published in 2019 and immediately become a part of Bill Gates’s book list. This book gives insight into how humans and nations can manage when crises and challenges arise in life. It talks about the six modern nations have managed when they face some catastrophes. This shows how if one sets their minds they have the ability to solve problems.

    44. Nine Pints

    Author: Rose George

    Originally published: 23 October 2018

    Nine Pints
    Nine Pints

    This book dwells inside the cultural history and science of blood. The importance of blood in life and how it saves lives from deadly infection everything that needs to be known about blood can be found in this book. It also talks about how menstruation is still a topic of taboo.

    45. A Gentleman In Moscow

    Author: Amor Towles

    Originally published: 6 September 2016

    A Gentleman In Moscow
    A Gentleman In Moscow

    This historical fiction of 2016 deals with the theme of romance, parenthood, politics, and poetry and follows the story of Count Alexander Rostov, who was ordered to spend his entire life in a luxury hotel.

    46. Presidents Of War

    Author: Michael Beschloss

    Originally published: 9 October 2018

    Presidents Of War
    Presidents Of War

    This 2018 book talks about the Presidents of America during the time of war. It consists of American history and how Presidents had to take all the difficult decisions while there was a war. It also talks about how 21st-century leaders have the power of Nuclear warfare in their hands.

    47. The Future Of Capitalism

    Author: Paul Collier

    Originally published: 4 October 2018

    The Future of Capitalism
    The Future of Capitalism

    This book by world-renowned economist Paul Collier focuses on modern times’ economic and social inequalities. The book has provided some solutions that are given by some world-known social scientists to save capitalism from itself and minimize the negative aspect that it brings.

    48. An American Marriage

    Author: Tayari Jones

    Originally published: 29 January 2018

    An American Marriage
    An American Marriage

    An American Marriage is written by Tayari Jones was first published in the year 2018. This fictional story deals with an African-American couple named Celestial and Roy, who faced a big turmoil in their life when Roy was wrongfully accused of rape that he did not commit. This book shows how two people were separated and suffered and how moving forward is sometimes the only option.

    49. These Truths

    Author: Jill Lepore

    Originally published: 18 September 2018

    These Truths
    These Truths

    This is a book of American history and has focused on how all truths regarding American politics, laws, and everything has played a role in the evolution of the nation. The book is divided into four sections including a part of modern times as well.

    50. Growth

    Author: Vaclav Smil

    Originally published: 6 September 2019

    Growth
    Growth 

    This 2019 book focuses on the growth of nature and society from tiny microorganisms to big empires. It includes man-made objects as well and talks about the growth of humans from their childhood to their adulthood.

    51. Prepared: What Kids Need For A Fulfilled Life

    Author: Diane Tavenner

    Originally published: 17 September 2019

    Prepared: What Kids Need For A Fulfilled Life
    Prepared: What Kids Need For A Fulfilled Life

    The book talks about how the parents should help their children in preparing for their future, instead of worrying about it. Diane Tavenner founded a school in 2003, called Summit Public School. In this book, the author shares some personal stories and lessons of the teachers and the students and asks the parents to learn this lesson so that they can prepare their children for the future.

    52. Why We Sleep

    Author: Matthew Walker

    Originally published: 28 September 2017

    Why We Sleep
    Why We Sleep

    This 2017 book highlights the importance of sleep in our life and how it helps us in living a healthy life. Sleep is the prime thing that has a huge impact on the physical and mental wellbeing of a human being. The author is a neuroscientist and sleep expert who explains in this book how sleep can secure us from fatal diseases as well. In this book, he also suggests some ways that can guarantee a good night’s sleep.

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    53. The Ride of a Lifetime

    Author: Robert Iger

    Originally published: 23 September 2019

    The Ride of a Lifetime
    The Ride of a Lifetime

    This memoir written by businessman Bob Iger was able to make into the list of Bill Gates. In this book, Iger talks about the achievement of his life and the lessons he has learned while being the CEO of Walt Disney Company for 15 years.

    Here, he has shared all the ideas and values that he has perceived in these years and how he believed optimism, courage, and fairness can help in becoming a better person. Bill Gates said it is one of the business books that he’ll unapologetically recommend, that gives tips on how to build a business.

    54. The Choice: Embrace The Possible

    Author: Dr. Edith Eva Eger

    Originally published: 2017

    The Choice: Embrace The Possible
    The Choice: Embrace The Possible

    It is an autobiography of Edith Eger when at the age of sixteen she was a gymnast and ballerina and was sent to Auschwitz. This book also includes the point where she saved her sister, in this book she has explained that our mind has become a prison, how freedom can be possible if only we confront our misery.

    55. Cloud Atlas

    Author: David Mitchell

    Originally published: March 2004

    Cloud Atlas
    Cloud Atlas

    This 2004 book is a merge of historical fiction and science fiction. This story is about the 19th century Hawai in a post-apocalyptic future. It consists of six stories and Bill Gates considers it ‘A wonder mind-bending novel.’

    56. The Great Influenza

    Author: John M. Barry

    Originally published: 2004

    The Great Influenza
    The Great Influenza

    This non-fiction talks about the havoc created by the 1918 flu that was one of the worst pandemics in history. The entire history of the 1918 pandemic can be found in this book, how it started, spread, and the invention of medicine to fight against it.

    57. Good Economics For Hard Times

    Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo

    Originally published: 12 November 2019

    Good Economics For Hard Times
    Good Economics For Hard Times

    This 2019 Non-fiction was written by the 2019 Nobel prize winner duo and talks about different economics research that will help in solving the problems faced by the different societies and the modern economies. It includes immigration, inequality in income, climate change, and others.

    58. The Spy And The Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story Of The Cold War

    Author: Ben Macintyre

    Originally published: 18 September 2018

    The Spy And The Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story Of The Cold War
    The Spy And The Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story Of The Cold War

    This book by Ben Macintyre was published in the year 2018 and tells the tale of Oleg Gordievsky. This spy thriller throws light on the cold war era and how Gordievsky worked for the West and exposed several Russian spies and destroyed their plans. The story brings the reader to the world of betrayal and is considered one of the best spy thriller books.

    59. The New Jim Crow

    Author: Michelle Alexander

    Originally published: 5 January 2010

    The New Jim Crow
    The New Jim Crow

    This 2010 book covers the topic of race in America and how the justice system sometimes targets people from different communities and colours especially, black people. Racial discrimination is real and this book enlightens people of its horror and its consequence.

    60. Range

    Author: David Epstein

    Originally published: 28 May 2019

    Range
    Range

    In this book, Epstein talked about the world’s most successful people from different fields. He argued that generalists find their path late but they really good at what they do. The book talks about how it is okay to start late and gain lots of experience.

    61. The Splendid And The Vile

    Author: Erik Larson

    Originally published: 25 February 2020

    The Splendid And The Vile
    The Splendid And The Vile

    This book by Erik Larson talks about the years 1940 and 1941 when the citizens were worried that Germany would bomb them any day. The fear and anxiety that the people experienced at that time and how Winston Churchill help them out during this period of time.

    62. Breath From Salt

    Author: Bijal P, Trivedi

    Originally published: 8 September 2020

    Breath From Salt
    Breath From Salt

    This 2020 book by Trivedi talks about the amazing scientific invention that helps cystic fibrosis patients. The emotions of the family of the patient, the doctor including the patients as well, the book described everything.

    63. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion And The Fall Of General Electric

    Author: Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann

    Originally published: 21 July 2020

    Light Out: Pride, Delusion And The Fall Of General Electric
    Lights Out: Pride, Delusion And The Fall Of General Electric

    This 2020 book is a Wall street journal bestseller that describes how America’s one of the biggest companies General Electric failed. In here all the mistakes that are done by the company have been explained that has resulted in its downfall.

    64. Under A White Sky: The Nature Of The Future

    Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

    Under A White Sky: The Nature Of The Future
    Under A White Sky: The Nature Of The Future

    This book by Kolbert has mainly focused on numerous types of environmental crises. It talks about how taking the help from technologies for countering climate change can lead to some more problems. This book also talks about the role of technology in our lives in modern times.

    65. A Promised Land

    Author: Barack Obama

    Originally published: 17 November 2020

    A Promised Land
    A Promised Land

    This 2020 book by Barack Obama, the former President of the United States of America is an autobiography and a memoir and talks about his political career and the years that have changed the history of the country. One of the events that are also included here is the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011.

    66. The Overstory

    Author: Richard Powers

    Originally published: 3 April 2019

    The Overstory
    The Overstory

    This 2019 book by Powers is an environmental fiction and talks about 9 people from America and their experience with trees and their connections with them that made them realize the importance of trees and what consequences the destruction of forest will bring in the world.

    67. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science Of The Immune System

    Author: Matt Richtel

    Originally published: 12 March 2019

    An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science Of The Immune System
    An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science Of The Immune System

    This 2019 book will help you understand the human immune system and its defence network. The book describes how our immunity helps us in healing wounds, fighting deadly diseases, and basically keeping humans alive. Gates considers this book a guideline that will help humans in taking valuable steps to stop Covid-19.

    68. Project Hail Mary

    Author: Andy Weir

    Originally published: 4 May 2021

    Project Hail Mary
    Project Hail Mary

    This 2021 Science Fiction tells the tale of Ryland Grace, a teacher-turned astronaut who is suffering from amnesia after waking up from a coma. Although he is the last hope of humanity, he doesn’t remember his name. Project Hail Mary talks about discovery and survival. Gates considers it a fun book to read as the plot is woven amazingly.

    69. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

    Author: Matt Richtel

    Originally published: 2 March 2021

    A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
    A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

    This book talks about the theory of intelligence and the mystery of brains. It also talks about what will be the future of AI in our world. The book answers some of science’s greatest questions. Gates considered this book fascinating as it talks about the whole architecture of the brain.

    70. Hamnet

    Author: Maggie O’Farrell

    Originally published: 31 March 2020

    Hamnet
    Hamnet

    This 2020 book set a fictional situation where the author meets Sakespeare’s son Hamnet, who died at the young age of 11. The book shows how the grief-stricken family has been torn apart after the death of the little child. Gates said that the book is well written.

    71. The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    Author: Walter Isaacson

    Originally published: 9 March 2021

    The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    The Code Breaker : Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    This book is basically the biography of the 2020 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Jennifer Doudna. Doudna won the prize for showing gene editing where one can cure blood diseases by cutting DNA. It was the number one book on New York Times Bestseller list.

    72. The Power

    Author: Naomi Alderman

    Originally published: 27 October 2016

    The Power
    The Power

    This 2016 Novel is Science fiction and the plot is surrounded on women who got the ability to produce electric jolts from their fingers, thus making the female gender powerful. The book was recommended by Gates’s daughter to him. The book basically talks about gender equality what could happen when the female gender gets an upper hand.

    73. Why We’re Polarized

    Author: Ezra Klein

    Originally published: 28 January 2020

    Why We're Polarized
    Why We’re Polarized 

    This 2020 Non-fiction book talks about the political polarization in the United States of America between the two main parties in the country. The book shows you that political ideologies have split up the people of the country and it also talks about the human psychology behind it.

    74. The Lincoln Highway

    Author: Amor Towles

    Originally published: 5 October 2021

    The Lincoln Highway
    The Lincoln Highway

    The Lincoln Highway is a sequel to a book called A Gentleman in Moscow. The plot surrounded two brothers who are en route to California from Nebraska in search of their mother. The book shows how our journey is never predictable and is full of twists and turns.

    75. The Ministry for the Future

    Author: Kim Stanley Robinson

    Originally published: 6 October 2020

    The Ministry for the Future
    The Ministry for the Future

    This 2020 Novel is a Science fiction that revolves around the future world and how climate change has affected the planet. The complexity of the situation has been well explained in the book which could happen in the future if one is not aware of the difficult situation now.

    76. How the World Really Works

    Author: Vaclav Smil

    Originally published: 27 January 2022

    How the World Really Works
    How the World Really Works

    The 2022 book covers various topics and is written for general audiences. This book like its title actually talks about how the world works. From food production to energy conservation, it consists of all the basic information that involves our survival on the planet. Gates has considered this book a masterpiece and a must-read.

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    Conclusion

    Bill Gates has recommended many books and asked people to read them because he strongly believes that a reader becomes a leader in the future. He is an ardent reader himself and reads almost 50 books a year.  All these books in the list above will entertain, educate and inspire people with their interesting content and can be considered as treasures for book lovers.

    FAQs

    Who is Bill Gates?

    Bill Gates is an American businessman, author, developer, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of a multinational technology company.

    How many Books does Bill Gates read every year?

    Bill Gates reads approximately 50 books every year.

    Does Bill Gates have a Blog?

    Yes, Bill Gates does have a personal blog and its name is Gates Notes.

  • Microsoft – Perhaps The First College Dropout Success Story

    Company Profile is an initiative by StartupTalky to publish verified information on different startups and organizations. The content in this post has been approved by Microsoft.

    Perhaps the very 1st college dropout success tale is Microsoft, which was established by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Microsoft, a US-based multinational tech giant, was ranked No. 21 in the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest US companies by total revenue in 2020. It was the largest global technology corporation by revenue, as of 2016. Along with Google, Apple,  Amazon, and Facebook, it is considered one of the Big Five corporations in the United States software industry.

    In 2018, Microsoft was declared the world’s most valuable publicly-traded company. In April 2019, Microsoft has become the 3rd U.S. public company to be worth over $1 trillion, behind Amazon and Apple. As of 2020, Microsoft has the third-highest brand value in the world.

    Here’s more about this software behemoth and how it came to be known as “Microsoft.”

    Microsoft – Company Highlight

    Startup Name Microsoft
    Formerly Called Microsoft Consumer Products (1980–1982)
    Headquarters One Microsoft Way Redmond, Washington, U.S.
    Industry Software development, Computer hardware, Consumer electronics, Social networking service, Cloud computing, Video games, Corporate venture capital
    Founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen
    Founded April 4, 1975
    Subsidiaries LinkedIn, Skype Technologies, and GitHub
    Areas Served Worldwide
    Current CEO Satya Nadela
    Website www.microsoft.com

    About Microsoft
    Microsoft – Latest News
    Microsoft – Industry
    Microsoft – Name, Logo, And Tagline
    Microsoft – Founders
    Microsoft – Startup Story
    Microsoft – Mission and Vision
    Microsoft – Products
    Microsoft – Business Model and Revenue Model
    Microsoft – Funding and Investors
    Microsoft – Investments
    Microsoft – Acquisitions
    Microsoft – Growth
    Microsoft – Competitors
    Microsoft – Challenges Faced
    Microsoft – Future Plans

    About Microsoft

    Microsoft Corporation, located in Redmond, Washington, is a leading multinational tech company that produces computers, computer software, electronics, and related services.

    Microsoft’s best-known software products are the Microsoft Office suite, Windows operating system, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. The company’s main hardware solutions are the Microsoft Surface line of touchscreen personal computers and Xbox video game consoles.

    The company is organized into three equally sized broad segments: productivity and business processes (legacy Microsoft Office, Skype, cloud-based Office 365, Dynamics, Exchange, SharePoint,  LinkedIn), intelligence cloud (infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service offerings Azure, SQL Server, Windows Server OS), and more personal computing (Windows Client, display advertising, Bing search, Xbox, and Surface laptops, tablets, and desktops).

    Microsoft – Latest News

    “Digital technology is a deflationary force in an inflationary economy. Businesses – small and large – can improve productivity and the affordability of their products and services by building tech intensity,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. “The Microsoft Cloud delivers the end-to-end platforms and tools organizations need to navigate this time of transition and change.”

    As of October 26, 2021, in comparison to the same period previous fiscal year, Microsoft Corporation released the following results for the quarter ending September 30, 2021:

    • Revenues climbed by 22% to $45.3 billion.
    • Operating income climbed by 27% to $20.2 billion.
    • Net income grew 48 percent and 24 percent, respectively, to $20.5 billion GAAP and $17.2 billion non-GAAP.
    • GAAP diluted profits per share were $2.71, while non-GAAP diluted earnings per share were $2.27, representing a 49 percent and 25 percent rise, respectively.
    • GAAP results include a $3.3 billion net income tax benefit.

    “We had a good start to the fiscal year,” Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft, said. “Our Microsoft Cloud generated $20.7 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 36 per cent year over year.”

    Microsoft – Industry

    The information technology (IT) industry includes firms that produce software, hardware, or semiconductor equipment, as well as companies that provide internet or related services. The three main industry categories in the IT sector are technology hardware, software and services, equipment, and semiconductors and semiconductor tools.

    The software solutions industry category includes organisations that provide internet/online and software services as well as IT services. Online services are companies that provide interactive services or online databases, such as social networks or search engines.

    IT services are companies that provide data processing services or IT consulting to other companies. Eventually, the software includes all sorts of commercial and consumer software, such as video games as well as business and systems software.

    The three industries that make up technology hardware and equipment are Technology hardware, communications equipment, storage and peripherals, and electronic equipment, instruments, and components. Communication equipment includes telephones, routers, and switchboards.

    Technology hardware, peripherals, and storage include computers, cell phones, and printers. Electronic equipment, gadgets, and accessories include companies that make barcode scanners, security systems and transformers, as well as distributors and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). An OEM is a company that develops types of equipment that are used in other businesses’ finished products. Many Dell laptops, for example, have Intel processors and Windows pre-installed; Intel and Microsoft may be called Dell’s OEMs.

    Semiconductors are materials that can transmit electricity in some situations but not in others, making them excellent for managing currents. Silicon is a very common semiconductor material. This industrial category comprises both semiconductor manufacturers and semiconductor peripheral equipment manufacturers.

    Microsoft – Name, Logo, And Tagline

    Microsoft is a combination of the words “micro-processors” and “software”.

    Microsoft Logo
    Microsoft Logo

    The Microsoft logo represents technological innovation that, with his Windows operating system, introduced the computer to the average person. Their logo serves as a constant emblem of quality in an operating system named “Windows,” which gives individuals access to the world of technology.

    The new tagline for Microsoft, the world leader in operating systems for more than a decade, is “Be what’s next.”

    Microsoft – Founders

    On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established the company, Microsoft.

    Founders of Microsoft - Paul Allen and Bill Gates
    Founders of Microsoft – Paul Allen and Bill Gates 

    Bill Gates

    William Henry Gates III is a successful American businessman, investor, author,  software developer, and philanthropist. Along with his late childhood mate Paul Allen, he co-founded Microsoft. Gates was the business’s largest individual stakeholder until May 2014, and he acted like the CEO, chairman, president, and principal software architect throughout his time there.

    He was the richest person in the world every year from 1995 to 2017, except for 2010 and 2013. He is the founder and chairman of BEN, Cascade Investment, bgC3, and TerraPower, among others. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s biggest private foundation, he has provided huge sums of money to many humanitarian organizations and scientific research initiatives.

    Paul Allen

    Paul Allen was an American businessman, researcher, investor, programmer and philanthropist. He is primarily remembered for co-founding Microsoft in 1975 with childhood buddy Bill Gates. Forbes listed Allen as the 44th richest person on the planet in 2018. Apex Learning and Stratolaunch Systems, as well as the Allen Institutes for Brain Science, Cell Science, and Artificial Intelligence, were all established by Allen.

    He donated more than $2 billion to a variety of organizations, including education, animal and environmental protection, the arts, healthcare, and community services. With SpaceShipOne, he sponsored the first crewed commercial spaceplane in 2004.

    He has earned several awards and distinctions in a variety of fields, and in 2007 and 2008, he was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.

    Microsoft – Startup Story

    Before co-founding Microsoft, Paul Allen and Bill Gates were ardent computer nerds in an era when computers were scarce. Even in high school, Gates and Allen skipped classes for spending all of their days in the school’s computer room. They were finally caught hacking into the school’s computer, but rather than being deported, they were granted unlimited computer time in exchange for assisting in improving the performance of a computer system.

    While still in high school, Gates and Allen founded Traf-O-Data, a modest firm with the support of Paul Gilbert, and sold a computer to the city of Seattle for traffic counts.

    In 1973, Gates left Seattle to attend Harvard University as a pre-law student. However, Gates’ first love, programming, never departed him, as he devoted much of his time in Harvard’s computer room polishing his skills. Allen moved to Boston shortly after, functioning as a coder and encouraging Gates to forgo Harvard so that they could work a full-time job on their concepts together.

    In January 1975, Allen brought Gates an article on the Altair 8800 microprocessor from Popular Electronics magazine. MITS, the Altair’s maker, was approached by Gates, who offered his and Allen’s services to develop an Altair version of the new Coding language.

    MITS decided to sell and commercialize the software under the name Altair BASIC when Allen and Gates presented their program to them after eight weeks. Gates and Allen were so enthused by the sale that they decided to start their software firm. As a result, on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico—the origin of MITS—Microsoft was created, with Bill Gates as its first CEO.

    The business opened its first international office less than a year later, in August 1977. ASCII Microsoft was the name of the Japanese branch. In 1979, the firm relocated to Bellevue, Washington, and two years later, Microsoft Inc. was formed. Allen was executive vice president while Bill was chairman and president of the board of directors.

    Microsoft – Mission and Vision

    Microsoft’s mission statement says, “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.”

    Microsoft’s vision statement is “to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.” The notion stated in this vision statement is how the organization goes above and beyond to help its clients make good changes.

    Microsoft – Products

    Microsoft’s products are quite numerous, and a significant portion of them are aimed at businesses and business customers. Until a few years ago, Microsoft’s products were largely desktop apps. Things have changed drastically over the years, with Microsoft creating a slew of discrete online and mobile apps for individual users.

    A few of the products are:

    • Microsoft Windows
    • Bing
    • MS DOS
    • Skype
    • LinkedIn
    • Windows Phone
    • Microsoft Solitaire
    • Visual Studio
    • X Box 360
    • Microsoft Office
    • Internet Explorer
    • Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft – Business Model and Revenue Model

    Microsoft’s primary revenue and profits come from developing, manufacturing, licensing, supporting, and selling a wide range of hardware and software products, cloud-based services, and services that integrate with them, as well as producing appropriate digital advertising that reaches a worldwide audience, conserving and expand its field of view and foundation.

    The following are the three primary segments of Microsoft Revenue Generation:

    • Business Processes and Productivity – It comprises income from the sale and licensing of the company’s various software products and cloud services for various devices and platforms. Office 365 Suite, Outlook.com, Exchange Email Platforms, OneDrive and SharePoint Content Management Tools, Skype Call Services, and others are examples of such goods and services.
    • Intelligent Cloud – Revenues from Microsoft’s server products and cloud storage services are included. Sales and licencing of Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, System Center, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Service, among other products, support Microsoft’s commercial strategy.
    • Personal Computing – It comprised revenue from Microsoft services and products that give developers, professionals, and end-users cross-platform functionality. Microsoft makes money from licensing Windows OS, Windows Phones, and Microsoft patents, as well as selling mobile phones and PC peripherals.

    It also makes money from selling and licensing Microsoft Xbox gaming systems, as well as Xbox live subscriptions, transactions, advertising, and royalties from third-party video games. Search advertising on the Bing Search Engine and proceeds from display advertising on the MSN portal is also included in this category.

    Microsoft – Funding and Investors

    Date Round Amount Lead Investors
    Sep 1, 1981 Venture Round $1M Technology Venture Investors

    Microsoft – Investments

    Date Organization Name Round Amount
    Sep 29, 2021 Truveta Corporate Round –
    Aug 17, 2021 Rubrik Corporate Round –
    Jul 29, 2021 OYO Series F $5M
    Jun 4, 2021 Intelight Seed Round CA$1.5M
    Jun 3, 2021 Sibucayi Pre-Seed Round $1K
    Jun 1, 2021 One Store Venture Round ₩17B
    May 25, 2021 Siemens Healthineers Grant $2.5M
    Apr 14, 2021 Bukalapak Venture Round $234M
    Mar 1, 2021 Loggi Series F $212M
    Feb 1, 2021 Databricks Series G $1B

    Microsoft – Acquisitions

    Acquiree Name About Acquiree Date Amount
    Clear Software Clear Software is an Intelligent Automation platform that protects and extends technology investments. Oct 22, 2021 –
    Ally.io Ally.io is a strategic goal-planning and execution management software. Oct 7, 2021 $76M
    TakeLessons TakeLessons is an ed-tech company with a robust, engaging learning platform and community for lifelong learning. Sep 10, 2021 –
    Clipchamp Clipchamp is the video editing platform that empowers anyone to tell stories worth sharing. Sep 7, 2021 –
    Peer5 Peer5 operates the world’s largest peer-to-peer (p2p) content delivery network. Aug 10, 2021 –
    Suplari Suplari focuses on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs. Jul 28, 2021 –
    CloudKnox Security CloudKnox develops a multi-cloud permissions management platform that protects critical cloud infrastructure resources and identities. Jul 21, 2021 –
    RiskIQ RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors. Jul 11, 2021 $500M
    ReFirm Labs ReFirm Labs is a group of IoT security experts that develops a new method for vetting and validating firmware. Jun 2, 2021 –
    Kinvolk Kinvolk is a software development company with commercial support for Linux, Kubernetes, and consulting across the cloud-native stack. Apr 29, 2021 –

    Microsoft – Growth

    As of July 2021, Microsoft reported $46.2 billion in revenue, $16.5 billion in net income, and $2.17 in profits per share for the quarter. The company’s revenues increased by 21% year over year, but its net income increased by a more robust 47 percent.

    First and foremost, Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, saw a 51 percent increase in revenue in the quarter compared to the same quarter a year earlier, a number that would drop to 45 percent if currency changes were taken into account, according to the firm. According to preliminary research, the 51 percent rate is the company’s highest Azure growth since the fiscal Q3 2020 period or the first calendar quarter of last year.

    Taking a look at the rest of the company’s performance, we may rank the revenue growth outcomes of its three main divisions as follows:

    • Intelligent Cloud has grown by 30%, thanks in part to Azure’s expansion.
    • Productivity and Business Processes: 21% increase, with LinkedIn (46%) and the Dynamics 365 CRM solution leading the way (49 percent growth).
    • More Personal computing is growing at a rate of 9%, with search leading the way (53 per cent, excluding traffic acquisition costs).

    Microsoft – Competitors

    The top competitors of Microsoft are Apple, Sony, Samsung, Mozilla, Logitech International, Google, IBM, Cisco, VM Ware, SAP, Salesforce, Red Hat, AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.

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    Microsoft – Challenges Faced

    Mobile – The fact that Microsoft has yet to figure out how to break into the mobile market is, of course, its largest and most obvious weakness. The mobile market share of Microsoft is now at 3.5%. This is a pitiful figure when compared to Apple’s 14.8 percent and Google/Android’s 80.2 percent.

    Furthermore, Microsoft’s Surface tablet has only managed to capture less than 3% of the tablet market. As a result, Windows is the only major operating system without a functional mobile component.

    Ecosystem – Additional problem for Microsoft would be that their platform isn’t up to par. Of course, there is one exception: Office 365. However, its Windows Store is about a fifth the size of the App Store and Google Play, Microsoft only recently released a free online version of its Office suite, Bing remains a distant second to Google Search, and Google’s Chrome browser surpassed Internet Explorer in total market share for the first time this month, and it doesn’t have a viable iTunes competitor.

    Microsoft – Future Plans

    For years, Microsoft has preached about the promise of rapid IoT growth via sensors and simple devices, all while creating a cloud empire and covertly acquiring startups that will help it manage these billions of cloud-connected devices.

    According to some estimates, there are now 22 billion linked gadgets, with that number expected to rise to 50 billion this year, by 2025, or 2030, depending on whose study you trust. Although there is some debate over how many devices will be linked to the internet and when they will do so, Nadella has rebuilt Windows and Azure to prepare for it.

    Microsoft also faces stiff competition from companies wishing to handle the billions of internet-connected gadgets. ARM, Qualcomm, Amazon, Huawei, Qualcomm, IBM, Intel, Dell, Google, Cisco, HP, Samsung, Oracle, and others are vying for a slice of this growing market, however, there is no definite victor yet. If the software titan is to succeed, it will have to persuade competitors and form partnerships with a large number of them. And this was why in current history, Microsoft has partnered with Cortana and Amazon on Sony on the future of cloud gaming, Alexa integration, Walmart on grocery store innovation, Samsung on Android apps, and many others.

    Nadella made it absolutely clear that the company is devoting a considerable amount of resources to see what the next big thing is. Simultaneously, they aren’t asserting that this is their way of implying that this one item will consume all of  Android, Windows, and iOS. People have generally grasped that Windows has a billion users worldwide, Android has 2 billion, and iOS has a billion. And it’s not like either of them was responsible for the death of another.

    Microsoft – FAQs

    What does Microsoft do?

    Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company based in Redmond, Washington, that makes computer software and hardware, consumer devices, computers, and associated services.

    Who founded Microsoft?

    On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft.

    How does Microsoft make money?

    Microsoft’s primary revenue and profits come from developing, manufacturing, licensing, supporting, and selling a wide range of hardware and software products, cloud-based services, and services that integrate with them, as well as producing appropriate digital advertising that reaches a worldwide audience, conserving and expand its field of view and foundation.

    Who is the current CEO of Microsoft?

    Satya Nadella is the current CEO of Microsoft.

    Which companies do Microsoft compete with?

    The top competitors of Microsoft are  Apple, Sony, Samsung, Mozilla, Logitech International, Google, IBM, Cisco, VM Ware, SAP, Salesforce, Red Hat, AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.

  • Top 6 Billionaires Tackling Climate Change

    The world has evolved and is still in the process of evolving. We are surrounded by technology and have our hands on things that are making our life easier. However, the more we have evolved, the more we started ignoring nature. This has resulted in drastic climatic change, so much is that we are losing 149 billion metric tons of ice in Antarctica. This has led to the rise of the global sea level in a big way, and researches shows that by the year 2050 big populated cities will get under the water.

    Now, the richest and wealthiest people have also contributed to climatic change. The richer they are, the more their carbon footprint increase. Reports claimed that half of the global emission is caused by the 10% wealthiest people in the world. Nw, with great power, comes great responsibility. This rare planet now needs to be saved. We do not have a planet B. Fortunately, some of these wealthy people are aware of what their actions are doing to the world. So all of them are doing their part to save the planet. In this article, we will talk about some billionaires and what they are doing to tackle climate change. So without any further ado, let’s get started.

    Jeff Bezos
    Elon Musk
    Bill Gates
    Bernard Arnault
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Larry Ellison

    Jeff Bezos

    The second richest person in the world and the founder of E-commerce giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos is clearly aware of what carbon emission is doing to the world. To counter the situation, Jeff Bezos along with Amazon has started an initiative known as The Amazon Climate Pledge, it is signed by other 104 corporations and its main target is to achieve net-zero carbon emission by the year 2040. Apart from that Bezos also has set up a fund called Bezos Earth Fund. Amazon also has a climate fund of $2 billion and this will be invested in new unique technologies that are needed to make a zero-carbon economy. In his Bezos Earth Fund, it is $10 billion and already 16 groups that working on climate change are given $790 million.

    Elon Musk

    There is hardly anyone who isn’t aware of this person, Elon Musk is currently the richest person in the world with his company like Tesla and SpaceX. He is now the owner of the popular social media site, Twitter as well. From the very first, this person is aware of what Carbon emission is doing to our world.  His company Tesla is an electric carmaking company which is an alternative to fossil fuels. His company is known for energy-saving and also for avoiding waste.  In 2021, Musk donated $100 million to an NGO called XPrize. XPrize has hosted a competition of four years through which they pledge to find a solution to achieve the removal of 10 gigaton carbon removal target per year by 2050.

    Bill Gates

    Bill Gates is not only known for his wealth but also for his philanthropy, the founder of the popular multinational tech company Microsoft. Gates is very much aware of the climate change issue the planet faces and has always spoken about its drastic consequences. Being that upfront about climate change, his company Microsoft took many steps to save the planet. In 2019, Microsoft pledged and set a target to source 100% renewable electricity by the year 2030. It has also decided to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 as well. Bill Gates has already authored a best-seller known as ‘How To Avoid A Climate Disaster’. Apart from Microsoft has taken a big challenge of being carbon negative by the year 2030. Microsoft is also part of Amazon’s Climate Pledge and has signed it.

    Bernard Arnault

    The French business Tycoon Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of the biggest luxury goods company LVMH. Some of the biggest luxury brands like Louie Vuitton, Dior and Sephora are under this. Under the directive of Arnault, LVMH has its own program called  LVMH Initiatives For the Environment (LIFE) program, it has decided a target to achieve the use of 100% renewable energy and eradication of fossil-based plastic use in packaging by 2026. Apart from that, LVMH claimed to achieve their goal of  25% reduction of carbon emissions by 2020, in fact, they reportedly surpassed 37% of carbon emissions 12% more than their target.

    Mark Zuckerberg

    The man behind the biggest social media platform, Facebook and the company Meta is Mark Zuckerberg. Meta in 2021 said that it has reached its target of net-zero of carbon emissions and energy that it has purchased. In 2019, it was one of the largest buyers of renewable energy and is also on the path to investing funds in the projects of carbon removal and nature-based compounds. Zuckerberg along with Meta is focusing on sustainability and is working to tackle the impact of climate change in the world.

    Larry Ellison

    Larry Ellison is the co-founder and the former CEO of Oracle Corporations. The Oracle Corporation has always believed in sustainable business and has several sustainable goals. Larry Ellison started the SailGP catamarans race in the year 2018, it is to be the first climate positive sport. Its main slogan is ‘Powered by nature’ and has set a target to be 100% charged by renewable energy sources by the year 2025. Apart from that, Ellison has also bought a Hawaiian island and has pledged to turn the island into a place of clean energy. He brought the island in 2012 for $300 million.

    Conclusion

    With the threat of global warming rising every day, the planet is in danger. There are companies that are playing a big role in the increase of global warming as they are producing carbon emissions. The Billionaires are now taking responsibility and are coming forward by initiating new projects and taking part in sustainable development programmes to save the planet.

    FAQs

    Who is the richest person in the world?

    Elon Musk is the richest person in the world.

    Who is Jeff Bezos?

    Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the biggest E-commerce platform Amazon.

    How much CO2 does the world produce?

    Approximately, the world produces over 43 billion tons of carbon emissions every year.

  • Income of The Top Richest People in The World [2022 Updated List]

    With the increase in their wealth, the richest of people also inspire the world to come to their level. However, very few people can hustle as the richest do. Top richest people inspire more people to hustle and motivate them. Here is a list of the world’s richest people’s monthly income, annual income, earnings in a week and a day.

    Income of World's Richest Billionaire 2021
    World’s 10 Richest Billionaires 2021

    Richest People in the World

    Elon Musk
    Jeff Bezos
    Bernard Arnault & Family
    Bill Gates
    Warren Buffett
    Larry Ellison
    Carlos Slim
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Jim Walton
    Charles Koch
    Amancio Ortega
    David Koch
    Ingvar Kamprad

    Elon Musk

    Founder – SpaceX
    Net Worth (2022) – $229.1 Billion

    Elon Musk Income | Salary of the Richest People in the World

    Elon Musk Income:
    Annual: $249534246575
    Monthly: $20794520547
    Weekly: $5198630136
    Daily: $693150684

    The Co-founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and the CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Inc., Elon Musk is known as an entrepreneur and business magnate of worldwide fame. He is currently known as the richest person in the world and highest-paid CEO, who notably retains his position as one of the top 3 of the highest income holders of the world. Musk successfully crossed the $200 billion on September 27, 2021, following the surge of a Tesla stock and was worth 203.4 billion at the close of the markets on the same date. With this, he surpassed Jeff Bezos, who attained the same in August 2020, and Bernard Arnault, to achieve the feat!

    Elon Musk is also the founder of The Boring Company, Neuralink, and OpenAI but his fortune is strongly tied to the ownership of Tesla.

    Jeff Bezos

    Founder – Amazon
    Net Worth (2022) – $171.4 Billion

    Jeff Bezos Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Jeff Bezos Income:
    Annual: $171616438356
    Monthly: $14301369863
    Weekly: $3575342465
    Daily: $476712328

    Jeff Bezos is the executive and the biggest shareholder of the web-based shopping giant Amazon. Bezos is an American innovation business visionary and speculator, esteemed over $100 billion. He is among the top 3 persons with the highest income in the world. Bezos’ different business interests incorporate aviation and e-commerce. He is the originator and proprietor of Blue Origin, a space transportation company. Established in 2000, the organization has directed dry runs to space starting in 2015, and arrangements for business suborbital human spaceflight starting in 2018. He likewise bought The Washington Post daily paper in 2013.

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    Bernard Arnault & Family

    Founder – LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton

    Net Worth (2022) – $152.9 Billion

    Founder – LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton

    Net Worth (2022) – $152.9 Billion

    Bernard Arnault Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Bernard Arnault Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Bernard Arnault Income:
    Annual: $147945205479
    Monthly: $12328767123
    Weekly: $3082191780
    Daily: $410958904

    Bernard Arnault oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. Arnault got his start by putting up $15 million from that business to buy Christian Dior in 1985. LVMH spent $3.2 billion in 2019 for luxury hospitality group, Belmond, which owns or manages 46 hotels, trains and river cruises.

    Bill Gates

    Founder of Microsoft
    Net Worth $117 Billion
    Founded in 1995

    highest income per day in the world
    Bill Gates Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Bill Gates Income:
    Annual: $121315068493
    Monthly: $10109589041
    Weekly: $2527397260
    Daily: $336986301

    Bill Gates is the Co-founder and Technology advisor of Microsoft Corporation. Bill Gates was the second  richest person in the world in 2018 following Jeff Bezos. He became the third richest person, after Bernard Arnault, who took him over in the July of 2019. Bill Gates is one of the best-known businesspeople of the tech industry. He has been scrutinized for his business strategies, which have been viewed as unfocused, a conclusion that has now and again been maintained by various court rulings. Later in his vocation, Gates sought after various magnanimous attempts, giving a lot of cash to different altruistic associations and logical research programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which was set up in 2000.

    Warren Buffett

    Founder- Berkshire Hathaway
    Net Worth (2022) – $117.4 Billion

    Warren Buffett Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Warren Buffett Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Warrent Buffet Income:
    Annual: $88767123287
    Monthly: $7397260273
    Weekly: $1849315068
    Daily: $246575342

    Warren Buffet is an investor, CEO and the biggest shareholder of Berkshire Hathway, the American multinational aggregate holding organization. The best financial specialist on the planet, Buffett is likewise a business head honcho and an altruist esteemed at $68.2 billion. He is the Buffett, the fourth wealthiest individual on the planet, is frequently alluded to as the Wizard of Omaha or Prophet of Omaha, and is noted for his adherence to esteem contributing and for his own thriftiness in spite of his massive riches.

    Larry Ellison

    Founder – Oracle Corporation
    Net Worth (2022) – $104.8 Billion

    Larry Ellison Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Larry Ellison Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Lary Ellison Income:
    Annual: $95178082191
    Monthly: $7931506849
    Weekly: $1982876712
    Daily: $264383561

    Larry Ellison is the prime supporter of Oracle Corporation and was the CEO of the company until September 2014. With a net worth of $43.4 billion, Larry is, as of now, the seventh wealthiest individual on the planet. As of now, he is the official administrator and boss innovation officer of Oracle. Larry Ellison has given up to 1% of his riches to philanthropy and has marked The Giving Pledge. He ranks 8th position in the Forbes list of top 10 richest person in the world.

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    Carlos Slim and Family

    Founder – Grupo Carso
    Net Worth (2022) – $80.7 Billion

    Carlos Slim Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Carlos Slim Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Carlos Slim Income:
    Annual: $89753424657
    Monthly: $7479452054
    Weekly: $1869863013
    Daily: $249315068

    Carlos Slim is a Mexican business head honcho, financial specialist, and giver who is among the most successful entrepreneurs and one of the wealthiest individual on the planet esteemed at $80.7 billion. Slim is known as the Warren Buffett of Mexico, getting his fortune from his broad possessions in an extensive number of Mexican organizations through his aggregate, Grupo Carso.

    Mark Zuckerberg

    Founder – Facebook (Meta)
    Net Worth (2022) – $71.7 Billion

    Mark Zuckerberg Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Mark Zuckerberg Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Mark Zuckerberg Income:
    Annual: $92219178082
    Monthly: $7684931506
    Weekly: $1921232876
    Daily: $256164383

    Mark Zuckerberg, a prime supporter and CEO of Facebook. He is among the richest people on the planet with net worth esteemed at $71.7 billion. American developer, Internet business visionary, he established Facebook from his school apartment in Harvard. The site later extended quickly with one billion users joining in by 2012.

    Jim Walton

    Founder – Walmart
    Net Worth (2022) – $66.5 Billion

    Jim Walton Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Jim Walton Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Jim Walton Income:
    Annual: $58191780821
    Monthly: $4849315068
    Weekly: $1212328767
    Daily: $161643835

    Jim Walton is the youngest son of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart – the retail brand. The Waltons are the richest family in America. Walton held a seat on Walmart’s board until 2016 when he yielded the seat to his son Steuart. Jim Walton shares 96% ownership of the family’s Arvest Bank, of which he is the chairman and CEO.

    Charles Koch

    Founder – Koch Industries
    Net Worth (2022) – $58 Billion

    Charles Koch Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Charles Koch Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Charles Koch Income:
    Annual: $48328767123
    Monthly: $4027397260
    Weekly: $1006849315
    Daily: $134246575

    Charles de GanahlKoch, esteemed at $55.2 billion, is an American businessperson, political benefactor and altruist. Charles Koch is the 12th wealthiest individual on the planet. He is co-proprietor, director of the board, and CEO of Koch Industries, well known additionally for its say in a prevalent American TV demonstrate ‘The Newsroom’. His family possesses 42% of the shares of the aggregate.

    Amancio Ortega

    Founder- Inditex Fashion group
    Net Worth (2022) – $55.8 Billion

    Amancio ortega Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Amancio ortega Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Amancio Ortega Income:
    Annual: $58191780821
    Monthly: $4849315068
    Weekly: $1212328767
    Daily: $161643835

    Amancio Ortega is the founder and former chairman of Inditex Fashion Group. He is the richest man in Europe and the 2nd richest mai in the world as of July 2019. He cofounded retail chain ‘Zara’ for clothing and accessories with his ex-wife Rosalia Merabest. He owns around 59% of Inditex. Amancio has a net worth of USD 68 Billion.

    David Koch & Family

    Founder – Koch Industries
    Net Worth (2019) – $50.5 Billion

    David Koch Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    David Koch Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    David Koch Income:
    Annual: $49315068493
    Monthly: $4109589041
    Weekly: $1027397260
    Daily: $136986301

    David Koch is the sibling of Charles Koch, was the Executive Vice President of Koch Industries. Esteemed same as his sibling at $55.2 billion, David was the 6th wealthiest individual on the planet. David likewise possessed 42% of the aggregate that the sibling acquired from their dad and afterwards extended. David coch wife Julia Koch & family has net worth of $47.4 billion (2021).

    Ingvar Kamprad

    Founder – IKEA
    Net Worth (2018) – $58.7 Billion

    Ingvar Kamprad Income | Salary of Richest People in the World
    Ingvar Kamprad Income | Salary of Richest People in the World

    Ingvar Kamprad Income:
    Annual: $57205479452
    Monthly: $4767123287
    Weekly: $1191780821
    Daily: $158904109

    Ingvar Kamprad was the Swedish business financier and originator of the renowned IKEA. The Swedish billionaire died in January 2018. He has positioned the 8th wealthiest individual on the planet at $58.7 billion in 2018. The Swedish retail organization was World’s biggest furniture offering organization in 2008. Kamprad transferred all his assets to his sons Peter Kamprad , Mathias Kamprad and Jonas. All the kamprad brothers are billionaires. Each of them has net worth of $1.3 billion (2021).

    FAQs

    Who is the richest person in the world 2022?

    Elon Musk is the world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of $229.1 Billion followed by Jeff Bezos, who is worth $171.4 Billion.

    How many billionaires are there in the world 2022?

    In the 35th annual Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, there are 2,755 billionaires.

    Who are top richest people in the world?

    Top 10 Richest in the world are:

    • Elon Musk
    • Jeff Bezos
    • Bernard Arnault & Family
    • Bill Gates
    • Warren Buffett
    • Larry Ellison
    • Carlos Slim
    • Mark Zuckerberg
    • Jim Walton
    • Charles Koch

    Which Country has the most Billionaires?

    Countries with the most Billionaires with ranking:

    1. United States
    2. China
    3. India
    4. Germany
    5. Russia

    Who is the highest paid person in the world?

    Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, is the highest paid employee in the world. He received $265 million in 2020 (base salary of $3 million, stock awards of $250 million, and perks around $1 million).

  • Who are the Top 10 Richest People in the World Today?

    All the businesses and jobs make for the economy. A major factor that plays a huge role in shaping and influencing the global economy is the cream of people in the world.

    This cream constitutes the richest people in the world. Anyone who is able to earn well and live a luxurious life is said to be rich. But there are few who have made a mark of richness in the entire world.

    There are certain people who are born rich and work hard to make themselves richer. There are also people who start from scratch and create a place of their own.

    The most wealthy persons in the world include Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and more. These people occupy a huge place and importance in the whole world.

    What Determines the Wealth of a Person?
    Most Richest People in The Whole World

    1. Elon Reeve Musk (Elon Musk)
    2. Jeffrey Preston Bezos (Jeff Bezos)
    3. Bernard Jean Etienne (Bernard Arnault)
    4. Willian Henry Gates III (Bill Gates)
    5. Lawrence Edward Page (Larry Page)
    6. Warren Edward Buffett (Warren Buffett)
    7. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Sergey Brin)
    8. Lawrence Joseph Ellison (Larry Ellison)
    9. Steve Anthony Ballmer (Steve Ballmer)
    10. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (Mukesh Ambani)

    Why does the Position of These People changes?

    What Determines the Wealth of a Person?

    The factor that determines how rich a person is their net worth. This worth is calculated in terms of monetary values. Higher the net worth, the richer the person is.

    What does Net Worth Mean?

    In simple economic terms, it is the value of all assets minus all liabilities. It is a difference between what one has and what one owes to others. It is the amount by which the value of a person’s assets exceeds the liabilities.

    It is a quantifiable concept. It measures the value of a person, organization, or country. High net worth means good financial strength and a good credit rating of a person or organization. Low net worth means weaker financial strength and lower credit rating.

    Most Richest People in The Whole World

    The rich are a huge contributor to the global economy. They not only contribute but also are great influencers of the economy and people’s perceptions. Most of these people have used technology for the betterment and enhancement of regular people’s life.

    Here are the top five richest people in the world:

    Elon Reeve Musk (Elon Musk)

    Elon Musk | Richest People in the world
    Elon Musk | Richest People in the world

    This 50-year-old man, popularly known as the CEO of Tesla Motors, is the richest person in the world. He was born in South Africa and is now an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of PayPal (PYPL), Neuralink, and OpenAI.

    Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, Chief engineer, and designer of the famous (Space exploration technologies) SpaceX. He is also the founder of the Boring Company. He started his entrepreneurial journey with the startup, Zip2.

    Since then, this man has not stopped exploring the field of technology and has made himself the richest in the world. At present, he has a net worth of 24,930 crores USD.

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    Jeffrey Preston Bezos (Jeff Bezos)

    Jeff Bezos | Richest People in the world
    Jeff Bezos | Richest People in the world

    He is an entrepreneur, computer engineer, investor, and commercial astronaut, born in New Mexico in the year 1964. Jeff Bezos is the founder of our beloved Amazon. The name that brought a revolution in the electronic commerce industry.

    Jeff Bezos has been the CEO of Amazon from the beginning to the year 2021. Now, he is the executive chairman of Amazon. He also possesses his space company, Blue Origin. He made news all around the world for his trip to space in his company-built rocket.

    He enjoyed the first rank in the list for around three years and was put back by Musk last year. He has a current net worth of 18,400 crores USD.

    Bernard Jean Etienne (Bernard Arnault)

    Bernard Arnault | Richest People in the world
    Bernard Arnault | Richest People in the world

    He is an entrepreneur and investor, born in the year 1949 in Roubaix, France. Bernard Arnault is the Chief Executive and Chairman of the leading luxury goods company, LVHM. The firm owns high-end brands like Louis Vuitton, Sephora, and more.

    He has a major ownership share in Christian Dior that makes for most of his net worth. Other assets that contribute to his wealth include equity in Hermes, Moelis & Company, and cash.

    The French tycoon has gained great popularity and earned a big place on the list. He has a current net worth of 18,960 crores USD.

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    Willian Henry Gates III (Bill Gates)

    Bill Gates | Richest People in the world
    Bill Gates | Richest People in the world

    He is a software developer, businessman, and author. He was born in the year 1955 in Seattle. He is the co-founder of Microsoft. It is the biggest software company in the world.

    The company makes personal computers, phones, servers, software development tools, intelligent devices, and more. Bill apart from his business achievements, is a great philanthropist. He has helped a lot in the fight against Ebola, malaria, polio, and covid-19.

    Besides his ownership share in Microsoft, his other huge net-worthy asset is Cascade Investment LLC. At present, Bill Gates has a net worth of 13,140 crores USD.

    Lawrence Edward Page (Larry Page)

    Larry Page | Richest People in the world
    Larry Page | Richest People in the world

    A person who has made people’s lives so convenient is Larry Page. He is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur born in the year 1973 in Michigan, USA. He is popular for being the co-founder of Google.

    Google is like a household name for the entire world. Over the years, it has acquired YouTube and Android. Last year it saw a fifty percent rise in its shares.

    Larry became a multi-billionaire at the mere age of twenty-seven years. He has a keen interest in space and flying cars. Larry Page has invested in the related companies. Currently, he has a net worth of 11,670 crores USD.

    Warren Edward Buffett (Warren Buffett)

    Warren Buffett | Richest People in the world
    Warren Buffett | Richest People in the world

    He is a businessman and a keen investor born in Nebraska, the USA in 1930. Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a company that has its subsidiaries in insurance, energy generation, manufacturing, and many more.

    Warren is famous for being a buy-and-hold investor who has made his huge wealth by gaining undervalued companies. Many books, movies, and documentaries have been made inspired by Buffett.

    He is one of the best and most renowned investors of all time in the world. His current net worth stands at 11,380 crores USD.

    Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Sergey Brin)

    Sergey Brin | Richest People in the world
    Sergey Brin | Richest People in the world

    He is a computer scientist, businessman, and popular internet entrepreneur. He was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. Sergey Brin is the man who co-founded Google with Larry.

    Brin is no longer the president of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. But he continues to be a controlling shareholder and board member.

    He stands two steps down his co-founder in the list with a net worth of 10,700 crores USD.

    Lawrence Joseph Ellison (Larry Ellison)

    Larry Ellison | Richest People in the world

    He is a businessman, entrepreneur, and investor born in New York, the USA in 1944. Larry Ellison is popularly known as the co-founder and former CEO of the renowned software company, Oracle corporations.

    The businessman serves as the chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Oracle. The company is the second-largest software company in the world. With time, they acquired many other companies in different fields.

    Larry is also an equity holder in Tesla and has a net worth of 10,300 crores USD.

    Steve Anthony Ballmer (Steve Ballmer)

    He is a businessman and investor born in the year 1956, hailing from Michigan, USA. At present, he owns National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Clippers. Steve Ballmer is also known to be famous for being the CEO of Microsoft for fourteen years.

    He still is the biggest individual shareholder in Microsoft of 4%. He and Gates studied together at Harvard University.

    This American businessman has made great progress over the year and has a net worth of 9,260 crores USD.

    Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (Mukesh Ambani)

    Mukesh Ambani | Richest People in the world
    Mukesh Ambani | Richest People in the world

    He is a popular billionaire businessman in India. He was born in Aden, Yemen in 1957 but was brought up in Mumbai, India. Mukesh Ambani is the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, the company with the largest market value in India.

    He dropped out of Stanford University to come back to India and work towards the expansion of Reliance. The company has indeed expanded to its great potential especially in retail and telecommunications under his direction.

    Mukesh is the only Indian who stands among the top ten richest people in the world with a net worth of 9,160 crores USD.

    Why does the Position of These People changes?

    The position of these people on the list does not stay intact forever. It keeps on changing. The net worth of these people is not only because of themselves but also has the contribution of regular people.

    A large amount of their wealth is in publicly traded stocks. The stock market as we know has its fair share of highs and lows. So, the changes in market valuations, and assets & liabilities lead to changes in the net worth of the richest people in the world.

    Elon for example made it to the top because of the massive rise in share prices of Tesla. So, the share market plays a huge role in determining the position that a rich person holds.

    Conclusion

    The richest cream of people in the world plays a huge role in building the economy. These also act as role models for many people who wish to be like them one day. Their journeys consist of hard work, execution, an eye for opportunities, overcoming obstacles, and a non-give-up attitude.

    The above-mentioned are the top 5 richest persons in the world. These men have created revolutions in their fields and made it to where they are today.

    FAQs

    Who are the top 5 richest people in the world?

    The top 5 richest people in the world are:

    • Elon Musk
    • Jeff Bezos
    • Bernard Arnault
    • Bill Gates
    • Larry Page

    What is the net worth of Elon Musk?

    Elon Musk has a net worth of 249 Billion.

    What is the net worth of Jeff Bezos?

    Jeff Bezos has an estimated net worth of $184 billion.

    Who are the richest family in the world?

    The richest family in the world are:

    1. The Walton Family – United States
    2. The Mars Family – United States
    3. The Koch Family – United States
    4. The Al Saud Family – Saudi Arabia
    5. The Ambani Family – India