With the question, co-funder of WhatsApp, Jan Koum directly into the new world billionaires list. No one thought, Koum first is poor.
Koum family migrated to the United States from the Ukraine two decades ago and fully lives depend on social benefits. However, today it has an estimated net worth of more than US $6.8 bilion.
Reported by business Insider, Friday, February 21, 2014, the following a billionaire who not only build a successful business from scratch, but they are also included in the new list of world billionaires.
The stories of their struggles to collect the coffers of wealth reminds us all that anyone can achieve remarkable success through determination, perseverance, strong will and little luck.
1. Jan Koum
He is the CEO and co-funder of WhatsApp. The amount of wealth owned by 37 37 years old man, according to Forbes about US $6.8 billion.
At the age of 16 years, Koum migrated to the United States from Ukraine. They live very limited and entirely dependent on government welfare.
Koum help sweep at the grocery store. In 2009, he and friend, Brian Acton, launched a messaging application among user of smart phones to connect people around the world. Currently WhatsApp user reached 450 million users.
2. Kenny Troutt
He is the funder of Exel Communication. According to data as of September 2013, the amount of assets held by US $1.7 billion.
Troutt was raised only by his father. Due to hit the cost, he sold life insurance to go to Southern Illinois University.
He gathers his wealth coffers of Exel Communications, which he founded in 1988. In 1996 the company was authorized to sell shares to the public.
Two years later, Troutt merge his company with telegrobe the US $3.5 billion. deal. Currently Troutt chose to retire and have a substantial investment in a horse race.
3. Howard Schultz
He is the owner of starbucks. amount of assets held by September 2013, amounting to US $ 2 billion. Schultz grew up in a poor housing.
"I always felt growing in different conditions with others, they have more resources, more money, and a happy family. And for some reason, why and how, I used to climb the fence to see them. Currently I have had suit and tie, but I'm always aware of where I came first, "Schultz said in interview with one of British tabloid, the Mirror.
Schultz finally managed to get a football scholarship at the University of Notherdam Michigan and worked at Xerox after graduation.
Shorty after that, he acquired a starbucks coffee shop which at the time only had 60 outlets.
Schultz became CEO of the company in 1987 and successfully developed the Starbucks currently has more than 1,600 outlets wordwide.
4. Ken lagone
Total wealth per September 2013 amounted to US $ 2.1 billion. His father worked as a plumber and his mother a servant in the cafeteria.
To help pay for her school at Bucknell University, he also worked odd jobs and his parents mortgaget their home.
In 1968, Ross Perot Lagone worked to acquire Electronic Data system (HP). Only two years later, he then partnered with Bernard Marcus of Home Depot set up, the company went public in 1981.
5. Oprah Winfrey
Total wealth per September 2013 amounted US $ 2.9 billion. Winfrey was born to a poor family in Mississippi, but did not lose his spirit to be able to get a scholarship at Tennessee State University and became the first African woman correspondent on US TV.
In 1983, Winfrey moved to Chicago to work on a talk show that came to be known "The Oprah Winfrey Show".
6. Shahid Khan
The amount of wealth that he possesses per September 2013, amounting to US $ 3.8 billion. Currently he is in the list of richest people in the world.
There was no thought, first to meet the needs and the cost of tuition, Khan worked washing dishes for a fee of US $ 1.2 per hour. That he did during a lecture at the University of Illinois.
Currently Khan is the owner of Flex - N - Gate, one of the largest auto parts manufacturing in the United States.
In addition, he also has the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL club and soccer club Fulham, Primer League.
7. Kirk kerkorian
Total assets held by September 2013 which amounted to US $ 3.9 billion. In the past, to help ease the family's finances are immigrants from Armenia, Kerkoin decided to drop out of junior high school and chose to become a boxer.
During the second world war, Kerkoin worked in the Royal Air Force, England. But, then he changed his interest became much resot and build the larges hotel in Las Vegas. Now, he became the owner of a giant resot.
8. John Paul Dejoria
Total assets held by September 2013 amounted US $ 4 billion. At the age of 10 years, to help support his family, he sold the paper and Christmas cards.
Because his parents are no longer able to support her, he too was sent to an orphanage. And he spent some time in an orphanage before finally choosing to join the military.
He then ventured to borrow US $ 700 and create a Paul Mitchell System. He sells shampoo from door to door and stayed in the car because it is not thinking about his old residence.
At the moment became the owner of Patron Tequila and has investments in several other industries. (eh).
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