Today I want to tell you the stories of some of the the richest people of our planet who have been able to earn over a billion dollars thanks to their brilliant ideas, hard work and desire to get rich. What is most interesting, all these people did not inherit a huge fortune and did not win the lottery, they all started their business from almost nothing. Very interesting, read on.
Li Ka-shing - $26.5 billion
Li Ka-shing was born and lived in China until he left the country in 1940 and moved to Hong Kong. Due to the death of his father, he had to leave school at the age of 14 and go to work. His first job was in a trading company. plastic products and had to spend 16 hours there.
The first ten years, plus thrift, led to the opportunity to open his own business, Cheung Kong Industries. Like Ka-shing's previous job, it was a plastics business, but over time, it has grown into Hong Kong's largest investment corporation. Li Ka-shing himself is considered one of the richest Chinese.
Sheldon Adelson - $26 billion
Sheldon Adelson, the son of a taxi driver from Boston, began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 12 by selling newspapers. After that, he was a court reporter, mortgage broker, investment advisor and financial advisor. There was a period when he tried to sell toiletries and charter tours.
But the organization of the computer exhibition-fair COMDEX in 1979 became a serious success. For the next 2 decades, it was the leading exhibition in the computer field in the United States.
And in 1988, together with partners, he acquires a casino and a hotel in Las Vegas (Sands Hotel & Casino), after which he quickly begins to get rich.
Sergey Brin - $24.9 billion
This is already a new wave of billionaires who began to earn money in the age of computerization and the Internet. Sergey Brin, a 40-year-old Google owner and former Russian, was born in Moscow and then moved to the United States with his family of mathematicians. Engaged in search engines (this is how Google.com itself is called correctly) began at Stanford with classmate Larry Page. The system was tested at the university, and then they began to look for investors. The name Google is a mispronunciation of gugol, a word spoken during one of the project's presentations.
Brin and Page were included in the list of billionaires in 2004, when they were 30 years old. Today, Brin is mainly engaged in the development of new projects and directions, such as augmented reality glasses and an unmanned vehicle.
Larry Page - $24.9 billion
The co-founder and co-owner of Google has been running the company itself since 2011 and is actually responsible for it. strategic development. In addition to Google, he is actively engaged in the development of the clean energy sector, in particular, together with Brin, he invested in Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars. high level(this is a normal machine that is powered by batteries).
Roman Abramovich - $23.5 billion
A well-known personality in narrow circles, Roman Abramovich, a billionaire orphan, who was raised by his grandparents. He went into business while still a student, creating a cooperative for the production of toys and various polymers. After that, there were many other companies and cooperatives, both in production and in trade.
But, as some sharp tongues say, Abramovich's main talent is being able to be at the right time in the right place - thus he was able to gain control of Sibneft, which allowed him to become a billionaire.
Amancio Ortega - $20.2 billion
Until I read who it was, the name meant absolutely nothing to me - Amancio Ortega. If we say that this is the founder and owner of Zara, then a lot will fall into place.
He started sewing his first suits in his living room with the help of $25 and his wife. The first clothing store opened in 1975, and after a while became the owner of the popular clothing chain Zara. In addition to the Zara chain, he has chains of clothing stores for children, for young girls, lingerie stores, etc. In total, Ortega has more than 3,000 stores in 64 countries around the world.
Mark Zuckerberg - $19 billion
29-year-old Mark Zuckenberg is an icon modern world. Young, lazy, creative and rich. The creator of the largest social network Facebook, who created a system for his university - Harvard - but in the end could not finish it, because. there was no time left. Helped in the creation of Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskowitz, plus Eduardo Saverin. The first major investment came from Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal.
Now Facebook is a public company, which first lost a lot in price, and then (in 2013) began to rise in price. Zuckenberg now has a 17% stake, making him the youngest billionaire in history.
Kirk Kerkorian - $16 billion
The now elderly uncle of the age of 96 left school in the 8th grade for the sake of boxing. At that time, he achieved great success and even became the welterweight champion in the Pacific Amateur Boxing Championship. After the Second World War, he left the ring and went to the airfield and began to fly the plane, but in 1944 he ended up in Las Vegas, where he got stuck for 3 years. After losing a lot of money, he nevertheless said goodbye to gambling and bought the airline company Trans International Airlines for 60 thousand dollars. After some time, he was able to sell it for $ 104 million to Transamerica.
And since 1968, he took up Hollywood - he earned at MGM, United Artists, Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox.
Elon Musk - $6.7 billion
Elon Musk is one of those new rich people who capture the market with their brains, hands and business acumen. First big deal at the age of 12, he wrote a program that he sold for $500 (at that age I only spent pocket money on ice cream and buns). At the age of 25, together with his brother, he created a software company for news companies, and after 4 years he was able to sell it for a price of 307 million. He invested this money in the creation of PayPal, which, in turn, he sold to eBay for $1.5 billion.
Today he is engaged in the Space X space program and has contracts from NASA. Also engaged in the aforementioned Tesla Motors.
Dustin Moskowitz - $5.2 billion
About this young man You can also say he was at the right time in the right place. Dustin Moskowitz is Mark Zuckenberg's roommate and helped him build Facebook. On this moment he owns 5% of the shares and this is the basis of his fortune. Facebook is not his main project now - now he is working on the Asana project. This is a web application for efficient project collaboration. Of the interesting things, he rides a bicycle to work and participates in the Giving Pledge project (a philanthropic project from Bill Gates and Warren Buffett). The essence of the project is that half of the members' fortune goes to charity.
Ken Griffin - $4.4 billion
Billions are made not only on computers. Ken Griffin is the owner of Citadel hedge funds. He got his first positive experience of playing on the stock exchange at the age of 18 and has not stopped working since then. He became one of the most famous specialists in his field. After 2008, the funds lost half their price, but are now gradually recovering.
John Arnold - $2.8 billion
Another successful stock player, John Arnold, started at Enron, now deceased. At the age of 27, he earned $1 billion for the company and received his bonus of $8 million. It was this money that he used to invest for himself and leave the annoying company.
In 2012, he surprised the whole world by announcing that he was retiring from trading after 17 years of successful experience. He and his wife now have a $1.4 billion charitable foundation and are also part of the Giving Pledge project we mentioned above.
Oprah Winfrey - $2.5 billion
Oprah Winfrey is a whole layer of American culture. This is the Cinderella of our days, who did not drop her shoe on the stairs, but plowed like a horse and used all the possibilities. The beginning of life is harsh, you can’t say anything: a strict mother, she was first abused at the age of 9, at 14 she gave birth to a child who died in infancy. But when I was in school, I first got a job at a radio station. At the age of 19, she already hosted local news, then daytime talk shows. The next major achievement is to promote a completely unpopular show so as to become a celebrity, and then, with experience and a name, create your own production company.
At 32, Oprah became a millionaire, and her show is the property of the nation. Since 1994, it has become so popular that the check for the year exceeded 9 figures. Oprah Winfrey became the first African American woman to be featured on the Forbes list.
Today, once on the air with Oprah, you can become a celebrity in 1 day. For example, this was done with Robert Kiyosaki in 1997 (of course, we will not belittle the achievements of Robert himself).
Mikey Jagtiani - $2.5 billion
Mikey Jagtiani, a Middle Eastern representative on our list of billionaires, was going to be an accountant, but his studies didn't work out. living in London was too expensive, plus the exams were also not going smoothly. To survive, I had to work as a taxi driver and a cleaner.
At the age of 21, Mikey Jagtian ends up in Bahrain alone with 6 thousand dollars (that's all the family had) and opens a children's goods store with this money. And today it is a retail chain in the list of the most profitable in the Middle East.
A corporation called Landmark includes 280 stores throughout the Middle East and brings Mike Jagtiani up to 650 million in profit per year.
Michael Rubin - $2.3 billion
Another representative of today's billionaires is Michael Rubin, CEO of Kynetic. He began his career as an entrepreneur as a child and sold seeds to his neighbors. At the age of 10, he already hired 5 guys to remove snow from neighboring lawns for money. At the age of 14, this future billionaire had already opened the first store, persuading his father to sign a lease. At 23, he was already a director in a company with $50 million in sales.
But he saw his destiny in ecommerce which is just beginning to develop. He invested about 80 million in his online store, but, despite increasing sales, he could not make this business sustainable. However, eBay came to the rescue, which bought the company from Rubin for 2.4 billion. The price is much higher than the real cost of this project, but eBay was behind in the race with Amazon, so they shelled out this money.
Today, Rubin is engaged in Fanatics clothing stores and websites of various kinds, in which he has already invested 500 million.
Eduardo Saverin - $2.2 billion
Another person who made a fortune on Facebook. Saverin is Zuckenberg's first investor and was the commercial director of the young project. But while Saverin was in New York on practice, Zuckenberg attracted new investors and artificially lowered his equity stake from 34% to 0.03%. Eduardo sued and got his share back up to 5%.
These 5% allowed him to get into the list of billionaires. In addition, the man turned out to be reasonable and, before Facebook filed for an IPO, he renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of Brazil, which allowed him not to pay US taxes. And although he has a Brazilian passport, he lives in Singapore and invests in online projects: an application that scans the barcode of a product and offers it at the lowest price on the Internet or online credit card payments using a webcam.
Sean Parker - $2 billion
Another co-owner of Facebook, Sean Parker, started out as a talented programmer and hacker. Already at the age of 16, he was arrested for hacking the websites of companies that were on the Forbes list. He also had a hand in creating the Napster Internet resource, through which it was possible to exchange music. It was a kind of breakthrough, albeit closed for "some" friction with the law. At 24, he meets Zuckenberg and is the president of Facebook. True, then he is removed, which, however, does not prevent him from keeping 3% of the shares and becoming a billionaire.
Today he is engaged in his startups.
Richard Desmond - $2 billion
The life of Richard Desmond also did not indulge at the beginning: his parents divorced, lived together in a small apartment, left school at the age of 14 to play drums and help his mother earn money.
His first real job was at the Thomson Newspaper, but by the age of 21 he owned two record stores. But the experience of the media also received its continuation - in 1974, Desmond became the publisher of the International Musician and Recording World magazine.
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According to recent research news agencies, in Russia, the youngest and most successful entrepreneurs were mainly participants in the digital environment and the Internet. To determine the popularity, several criteria were taken:
- all participants are citizens of the Russian Federation;
- age limit not exceeding 33 years;
- the status of the owner of the business or participate in it, their shares;
- annual revenue of $10 million.
The list of promising establishment includes 10 young leaders. The beginning of their activities dates back to the first half of the 2000s and does not affect the manufacturing sector. An interesting observation also concerns the fact that young businessmen do not look away political activity or government controlled as a way to further advance and grow, but remain true to the course within the chosen market.
Top-10 is started by the youngest participant - Fear, Vsevolod. 28 years. Capitalization - $ 88 million. Moscow
Founder of the Russian retail network Sotmarket earned its first ruble billion at the age of 24. The online store he created united only 15 employees, but in a couple of years the business retail climbed to 3rd place in terms of attendance, and revenue exceeded a billion.
At school, Fear developed his own website, where he sold telephone cables through a Chinese intermediary. Enrolling in higher school economy, rented an office in a residential building and hired the first workers. Studying literature on programming, launched his own operating system accounting for goods, and data cables were added mobile accessories, gadgets, auto products and even garden tools. At the same time, the geography of distribution of goods increased, up to Kamchatka, and logistics was improved. Today Sotmarket LLC is 4 stars on Yandex. Market", more than 200 employees of call centers and 40% regular customers. The company is in liquidation, and a 51% stake has been sold to IQOne.
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Vishnevsky, Roman - 29 years old. Capitalization - $ 30 million. Moscow.
An ambitious trader made his first million dollars selling US securities while working for a Canadian company. With his own money, he founded the financial corporation UnitedTraders (UT), which trades in futures, stocks, and currencies. An innovative product of UT is considered to be algorithmic trading called Layering, which the company actively promotes as part of training programs for novice traders. Specializing in the American stock exchange, Vishnevsky and partners provide dealing rooms as a platform for the development of new strategies, taking into account market movements and professional assistance in Russia. Following corporate mission, since 2013, the investment fund "KvadratBlack" has been operating, providing money for the management, control of risks and sites with a high percentage return. Today, there are representative offices in Slovenia and Israel. UT plans to open an office in London and develop algorithmic robots.
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Sachkov, Ilya - 29 years old. Capitalization - $ 12 million. Moscow
Conceived at the University. N.E. Bauman, the idea of combating cybercrime was realized 12 years later in the organization of the Group-IB detective agency. The enterprise that investigates computer crimes and ensures the security of influential corporations, large banks, oil companies, is by far the largest in Russia. Highly qualified civilians and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs form the core of the company, but also represent a huge risk for business. The company is dependent on its specialists, and even one expert is extremely difficult to replace if someone decides to leave Group-IB. Now the company is looking for investments, including foreign ones.
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Guzairov, Andrey - 30 years old. Capitalization - $ 20 million Kazan
The first Internet project CreditCardsOnline appeared as a result of the loss of a position in American company in 2010, where Andrey spotted the idea of credit card affiliate programs. The following year, he buys the FinamGlobal fund and launches the Platiza.ru business. The product of this activity is an online identification service that PhilipMorris Corporation actively uses to monitor the age of site visitors. Holding FederalFinanceGroup appeared as a result of the previous business electronic passports. All projects are interdependent on each other, are successfully implemented and feel great among competitors. The further work of the holding is connected with attracting a larger number of partner banks, launching online services unique for Russia and expanding the range of financial services.
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Salikhov, Dmitry - 30 years old. Capitalization - $ 18.6 million Novosibirsk
The business activity of the young entrepreneur resulted in the company Iway, which is engaged in transfer transportation. The main motive for the development of their own business turned out to be dismissal due to staff reduction and numerous contacts in the transport infrastructure. The company has its own form style, and the service covers the scope of hospitality transportation from international airports to any locality and point of the city. Growing, Iway acquired offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today, more than 65 branches are open in different countries world, and more than 95% of orders are provided corporate clients. The entrepreneur plans to create his own fleet and move to increase capital.
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Pryakhin, Andrey - 30 years old. Capitalization - $ 19 million Volgograd
The creator of the design studio "Kefir" brought to the market the game project "Tyuryaga", which saved the businessman from bankruptcy. The game that offers virtual reality according to the laws of the zone, it turned out to be in demand by the public, and the criminal theme brought profit from the sale of gaming accessories and advertising. Operating under the motto: “We make games!”, The studio released the hit “In the trenches”, which attracted fans with the military theme of the 40s. The driver of modernity has become the new game format "OneLife" - not for life, but for death in the literal sense. The feature of the product is that the character does not have another chance. The death of a hero in game content ends up being deleted from the mobile device, where the second attempt no longer exists.
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Durov, Pavel - 31 years old. Capitalization $ 1 billion St. Petersburg
The dollar millionaire and former CEO of VKontakte owns the Telegram messenger product. As a student at St. Petersburg State University, he was thinking about more progressive ways of online communication. Against the backdrop of the success of Odnoklassniki and Facebook, the VKontakte project is being launched using money borrowed from relatives. In 2014, the free Telegram service appears, which has more than 100 million active audience per month.
International sanctions, the fall in oil prices, the devaluation of the ruble hit business hard and shook up the Forbes list. Who ended up in the top 10?
1. Leonid Mikhelson
Chairman of the Board of OJSC Novatek
State:$14.4 billion (+$2.7 billion)
Early 1990s Since 1987 he headed Kuibyshevtruboprovodstroy, in 1991 he transformed the trust into a private enterprise Nova.
Capital A stake in Novatek (24.8%), Sibur (43.2%).
Number Net profit Novatek in 2015 increased by 2.1 times compared to the previous year, to 74.4 billion rubles.
Statistics In March 2016, the Board of Directors of Novatek increased the composition of the board from 9 to 12 people.
Deal Chinese Sinopec acquired 10% of Sibur for $1.3 billion, the deal was closed in December 2015.
Event Novatek at the end of 2015 turned to President Vladimir Putin with a request to allow gas supplies to Europe through Gazprom Export.
Partners Gennady Timchenko (No. 5), Leonid Simanovsky (No. 87).
Charity Heads V-A-C fund(Victoria - the Art of Being Contemporary), named after Victoria's daughter. The Foundation supports modern Art, allocates grants to young artists and curators. In addition, he is an investor in the Victoria Gallery in Samara.
Detail Michelson is the owner of a major development project in Leningrad region: 510 ha near Sestroretsk, including 370 ha of alluvial area. It is planned to build more than 3 million square meters here. km of real estate.
Sport In autumn 2013, Novatek became the main sponsor of the Russian Football Union instead of Gazprom. In January 2014, Sibur became an NBA basketball development partner in Russian regions. In addition, Sibur supports the Russian Student Basketball Association.
2. Mikhail Fridman
Chairman of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group
State:$13.3 billion (- $1.3 billion)
Early 1990s Traded scarce as a student theater tickets, created the club "Strawberry Glade" in the MISiS hostel in Belyaevo, arranged meetings, concerts and discos. In 1988, together with friends from MISiS, he organized the Courier cooperative, which was engaged in the delivery of products to the population. The first big money for those times was earned by washing windows.
Capital The main owner of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank, X5 Retail Group (48%), A1, Rosvodokanal) and the LetterOne Holdings group (Dea, Vimpelcom (56.2%), Turkcell (13.22% )).
Number Alfa Group received $14 billion in March 2013 from the sale of its stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Deal In March 2015, LetterOne acquired the German oil and gas company Dea for € 5.1 billion. In October, at the request of the British authorities, under the threat of deprivation of licenses for the development of deposits, Dea sold its assets located in the kingdom. In return, the Norwegian assets of the German energy concern E.On were acquired.
Event In 2013, Alfa Group created a special company for its foreign assets, LetterOne Holdings. In 2014, LetterOne transferred the group's shares to Vimpelcom.
Venture In February 2016, LetterOne invested $200 million in an on-demand service Uber taxi, which was valued at $68 billion at the end of last year.
Brand Owns the brands Beeline, Pyaterochka, Perekrestok.
Citizenship Israel.
Charity Alfa-Bank finances the Life Line charity foundation, which helps children with severe cardiac diseases.
Hobby He is fond of cinema, music, chess.
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In his free time, he flies by helicopter to his recreation center in the Tver region, where he not only rests, but also negotiates with partners.
Friedman is a fan of extreme off-road travel. In 2015, he traveled to Iran, and most of the billionaire's constant companions, including members of the Forbes list, were afraid to keep him company.
3. Alisher Usmanov
Founder and major shareholder of USM Holdings
State:$12.5 billion (- $1.9 billion)
First business In the late 1980s, he organized the Agroplast cooperative, which produced plastic bags.
Capital The main shareholder (48%) of USM Holdings, which combines assets in the mining industry and metallurgy (Metalloinvest), telecommunications (MegaFon), the Internet (Mail.ru Group and DST Global), television (YuTV Holding, STS Media ").
Number Usmanov allocated 1 billion rubles in 2015 to support the Russian Football Union.
Deal In 2015, after a protracted corporate conflict, Usmanov's structures managed to buy out the share of the UCP fund in the VKontakte social network, thereby consolidating all the largest Russian social networks.
Event In early 2015, the Mail.Ru Group holding controlled by Usmanov overtook Yandex in terms of capitalization, becoming the most expensive Internet company in Russia.
Brand In 2015, Usmanov increased his stake in the English football club Arsenal by buying out the shares of his partner, Farhad Moshiri. Thus, he owns a 30.04% stake in the football club, alone - the Kommersant publishing house.
Partners Andrey Skoch (No. 18), Ivan Tavrin (No. 194).
Charity founded charitable organization"Arts, Science and Sports", which helps sick children, as well as theaters, museums and sports organizations. In 2014, he bought the Nobel medal of the discoverer of the structure of DNA, James Watson, for $4.1 million and returned it to the scientist.
Toy Owns two yachts, both called Dilbar (after his mother): 2005 (Oceanco shipyard), 66 m, maximum speed 16 knots, and manufactured in 2008 (Lurssen shipyard), 110 m, maximum speed 21 knots. Also has an Airbus A320-300 aircraft.
Sport He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Fencing Federation, President of the International Fencing Federation.
4. Vladimir Potanin
President of Interros Holding, General Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel
State:$12.1 billion (- $3.3 billion)
Who was in the USSR Worked in the Ministry foreign trade USSR, in 1990 he went to work at the International Bank for Economic Cooperation and in the same year created Interros, which offered consulting services to participants in foreign trade activities.
Capital The basis of the state is a 30.41% stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of nickel and palladium in the world.
Statistics Norilsk Nickel's revenue in 2015 decreased by 28% compared to 2014, to $8.5 billion.
Deal In 2013-2014, Potanin's Interros sold the Profmedia media holding and the Cinema Park cinema chain, receiving a total of about $1 billion.
Court At the end of 2013, he divorced his first wife Natalia. Proceedings on the division of property in the courts have not yet ended.
Conflict From 2008 to 2012, he participated in the so-called nickel wars and fought with another shareholder of the MMC, Oleg Deripaska (No. 41), for control of Norilsk Nickel. In 2012, Potanin and Deripaska, through the mediation of Roman Abramovich (No. 13), signed a settlement agreement.
Policy From August 1996 to March 1997 he was First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government.
Charity In 1999, he established the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation, which spends about $10 million a year on education, culture and sports. In 2013, Potanin joined the Giving Pledge movement, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and bringing together businessmen who have decided to spend most of their fortune on charity. In 2015, he transferred the fund's endowment from the UK to Russian jurisdiction.
Hobby Alpine skiing, dominoes. Plays hockey with President Putin, trains with Vyacheslav Fetisov.
Toy Yacht Anastasia, 2008, length 75.5 m, maximum speed 15 knots.
Sport One of the initiators of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, invested $2.2 billion in the construction of the Rosa Khutor ski resort (including about $500 million of his own funds).
5. Gennady Timchenko
Member of the Board of Directors of Novatek and Sibur
State:$11.4 billion (+ $0.7 billion)
Early 1990s He worked as vice president of the foreign trade organization Kirishineftekhimexport (Kineks), established at the Kirishi Oil Refinery in the Leningrad Region. In 1996, at a privatization auction, together with partners, he bought Kinex, from which Gunvor later grew, one of the world's largest oil traders.
Capital Shares of Novatek (23.5%), Sibur (14.5%), Stroytransgaz group (63%), Transoil (80%).
Number 161 billion rubles - the amount of state contracts received by Timchenko's structures in 2015, according to Forbes.
Event On March 20, 2014, the United States imposed sanctions against Russia. Along with Timchenko, the list included representatives of the Russian leadership, as well as their "closest advisers", since the United States considers them responsible for Moscow's policy towards Ukraine.
Partner Leonid Mikhelson (No. 1).
Brand Aquanika water.
Citizenship Finland.
Hobby She is raising Romi, the daughter of the Labrador Koni, Vladimir Putin's dog.
Sport President of the SKA Hockey Club, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the KHL, Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee, member of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation and the Board of Trustees of the Russian Chess Federation, one of the founders of the Yavara-Neva judo club.
Charity The Charitable Foundation of Elena and Gennady Timchenko is engaged in supporting the older generation, developing sports and culture, and helping children.
6. Alexey Mordashov
Chairman of the board PAO directors Severstal
State:$10.9 billion (- $2.1 billion)
Early 1990s In 1992, he was appointed director of finance and economics at Cherepovets metallurgical plant(CHMK). He entered into the first contracts with traders who sold metal to the West. Having bought a controlling stake in ChMK, he removed director Yuri Lipukhin from managing the enterprise.
Capital Severstal (79.2%), Nord Gold (90.6%), Power Machines (100%).
Number In 2015, he received $577 million in dividends from Severstal.
Event Resigned in May 2015 CEO Severstal, which he has occupied since 1996.
Brand Owns the Utkonos online grocery store and a 15% stake in TUI, one of the largest travel concerns in Europe.
Partners Together with Yuri Kovalchuk (No. 162), he owns Rossiya Bank, which is under sanctions, the National Media Group and T2 RTK Holding, a joint venture between Tele2 and Rostelecom.
Detail He plans to invest 10.5 billion rubles in the next 10 years in the development of his enterprise Sveza, the largest plywood manufacturer in Russia.
7. Viktor Vekselberg
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova group of companies
State:$10.5 billion (- $3.7 billion)
Early 1990s In 1988, he headed the laboratory of the Special Design Bureau for rodless pumps "Konnas", together with his employees organized a cooperative for the development software. In 1989, he created the Research and Production Enterprise "KomVek" ("Vekselberg's Company"), which was engaged in the sale of aluminum and copper obtained from waste cable abroad. In October 1990, together with an institute friend, at that time already a US citizen, Leonard Blavatnik, he established joint venture Renova.
Capital Owns a 5.66% stake in UC Rusal, large stakes in Swiss companies Oerlikon (44.7%) and Sulzer (63.4%).
Number He received $7 billion in cash in March 2013 from the sale of Rosneft's stake in TNK-BP.
Court Businessman Mikhail Abyzov (No. 133) is trying to sue Vekselberg for $450 million for his stake in IES Holding. The case is pending in the British Virgin Islands.
Former senator Leonid Lebedev (No. 108) calls himself a "secret shareholder" of TNK-BP and demands $2 billion in compensation from former partners Viktor Vekselberg and Leonard Blavatnik.
Deal In August 2015, Renova doubled its stake in Sulzer. The company spent about $1.1 billion to buy about 30% of the shares.
Collection He owns the world's largest collection of Faberge jewelry, the exposition is exhibited in the businessman's private museum in the Shchuvalovsky Palace in St. Petersburg, on the restoration of which he spent about $ 40 million.
Brand"Akado".
Charity In 2015, Renova donated its 5-star Sochi Azimut Hotel to the Russian Children's Educational Center.
8. Vladimir Lisin
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK
State:$9.3 billion (- $2.3 billion)
Who was in the USSR He began his career as an electrician in the Yuzhkuzbassugol association. After graduating from the institute, he worked at metallurgical enterprises, went from assistant to a steelmaker to deputy general director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant. In the late 80s, he headed the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which traded substandard metal abroad.
Early 1990s He was vice president of Trans CIS Commodities, one of the main companies of the Trans World Group of the Cherny brothers and the Ruben brothers.
Capital NLMK (85.54%), transport holding Universal Cargo Logistics (UCL Holding, 100%).
Deal In 2011-2012, he spent $5.8 billion to buy from the state shares in the First Freight Company, the largest freight rail operator in Russia, which became part of UCL.
Collection He collected the world's largest collection of iron castings from the plant in the Ural city of Kasli (it has been operating since 1749).
Hobby Sports shooting, hunting. He built the largest in Russia sports and shooting complex "Lisya Nora" in the Moscow region.
Sport Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee, President of the Shooting Union of Russia and the European Shooting Confederation (ESC), Vice-President of the International Sports Shooting Federation (ISSF), President of the All-Russian Association of Summer Olympic Sports (VALOVS).
Detail In the database of Rospatent, Lisin is listed as the author of new methods for washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle, obtaining a coating on a metal strip, and the owner of a couple of dozen more patents.
9. Vagit Alekperov
President of NK Lukoil
State:$8.9 billion (- $3.3 billion)
First business In the late 1980s, he worked as the general director of the production association Kogalymneftegaz; in 1990–1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. In 1992-1993, he created the LangepasUrayKogalymneft oil concern, on the basis of which Lukoil OJSC was created. Since then he has been President oil company. In the process of privatization, he became its largest shareholder.
Capital A block of shares in Lukoil (23%).
Number He received $480 million in the form of dividends for 2015, spent $111 million on the purchase of additional shares of Lukoil.
Charity Founder of the Regional Foundation social programs"Our Future", which is engaged in the development of social entrepreneurship.
Collection In October 2015, he opened his Numismatics Museum in Moscow. There are more than 700 coins on display: Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Byzantium, medieval Europe, Russian empire, RSFSR and USSR. The most expensive coin, platinum 12 rubles of 1844, was bought in 2013 at the Maison Palombo auction for 380,000 Swiss francs or $410,000.
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For the Olympics in Sochi, Lukoil carried out the reconstruction of the Krasnopolyanskaya HPP at a cost of 475 million rubles.
In 2013, he bequeathed his entire block of shares to his son Yusuf on the condition that he would not have the right to sell or divide this block. The goal is to ensure stability for Lukoil for many years to come.
10. German Khan
Member of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and Supervisory Board of Alfa Group
State:$8.7 billion (- $0.8 billion)
First business After graduation, he started sewing and selling clothes together with Alexander Furman, a future State Duma deputy. After the partner left the business, Khan did not want to work alone and in 1989 came to the Alfa-Photo cooperative of Mikhail Fridman (No. 2) and Alexei Kuzmichev (No. 15), whom he knew from MISiS.
Capital The second shareholder after Mikhail Fridman of Alfa Group (Alfa Bank, X5 Retail Group (48%), A1, Rosvodokanal) and LetterOne Holdings (Dea, Vimpelcom (56.2%), Turkcell (13.22 %)).
Number Almost $200 million was received by LetterOne in the form of dividends from the Turkish operator Turkcell in 2015.
Deal In March 2015, LetterOne Group acquired the German oil and gas company Dea for €5.1 billion. Hahn, a former Executive Director TNK-BP took an active part in the preparation of the deal.
Citizenship Israel.
Hobby Likes to hunt in company with Peter Aven (No. 19) and Iskander Makhmudov (No. 21). All three are founders of Medved LLC in the Arkhangelsk region, which, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, is engaged in “hunting and breeding of wild animals, including the provision of services in these areas.”
Detail In 2010, he bought a house in London on Eaton Square for $91 million.
Do you know who is the most successful businessman in Russia? You will probably immediately name such names as Prokhorov, Abramovich, Usmanov, Fridman and others. The success story of "old school" businessmen dates back to the 80s and 90s. The chronology of earning billions from these people is of the same type and is known to everyone. The 21st century is now in the yard - the time of new discoveries and the furious development of the IT industry. Some have gloriously succeeded in this and become successful millionaires at a fairly young age. Here is a list of the "Most successful businessmen Russia up to 40 years. Of course, the leader in this area is Pavel Durov, but there are several more people who managed to make their multi-million dollar fortune before the age of 40. This article is a story about how successful businessmen in Runet become.
31 years old, founder and owner of the popular messenger Telegram. Net Worth - $1 Billion
In 2014, the number of users of the unique Telegram messenger was about 35 million people, and a year later there were more than 60 million (active monthly statistics). The trend of registering new users has continued to this day. In May 2015, Pavel Durov stated that 220,000 new users connect to the Telegram cross-platform application every day. If we estimate the scale of development of this project, then today the number of users should exceed 100 million people. The uniqueness and popularity of this messenger is immediately determined by the fact that the application itself is free and available for instant download and use. Also, an exceptional feature of Telegram is its confidentiality - all users of this social network can be sure that their correspondence will always be private and inaccessible to interception.
Unprecedented success of Durov after the launch of the social network "VKontakte"
Pavel Durov is a truly successful businessman and entrepreneur. The source of his wealth and popularity originates in the social network VKontakte, which he launched in 2006. This project has gained incredible popularity among the Russian-speaking population. This startup began to rapidly grow in mass. Having hooked every resident of the post-Soviet space into his social network, Pavel Durov very soon became a major millionaire, and the estimated value of VK exceeded $ 1.5 billion. For several years, Durov bought up shares on VKontakte. Pavel made millions of dollars doing it. In December 2014, Durov sold his last 12% of his own shares and ceased to be the owner of the most popular social network in Runet.
Pavel Durov's fortune
Little is known about Pavel's current life, because the billionaire does not like interviews and the press. In his Instagram, we can see photos from New York, then from San Francisco. Durov also often visits European capitals. It is known that Pavel is a true lover of picturesque nature. The young often visits the Finnish lakes, rests in Karelia and skis in Switzerland from time to time.
Today it has 1 billion dollars. He is the most successful young businessman in Russia. Pavel himself has repeatedly stated that the estimated value of Telegram varies from 3 to 4 billion dollars. He made these estimates based on what offers he received regarding the buyout of the Telegram messenger.
Ivan Tavrin: 39 years old, owner of YuTV Holding (USM Holdings). Net worth - $400 million
In 1996, while still a student at the MGIMO Faculty of Law, together with his friend, he founded advertising agency"Contract". In 2000, the agency's annual profits exceeded $10 million. In 2001 he founded new company called "Regional Media Group".
The area of activity of RMG was still the same - the sale of media assets. In 2005, eight regional TV stations operated under the auspices of RMG. Tavrin's fortune at that time already totaled tens of millions of dollars, but the successful businessman went further. In 2010, Ivan Tavrin established the Media-1 holding, which was created to merge assets with AF Media Holding (which included well-known TV channels such as Muz-TV and 7TV), which was subsequently owned by the combined company became known as YuTV Holding. Thanks to this integration, Ivan Tavrin received a 50% stake from YuTV Holding.
To date, the state of Ivan Tavrin has about $ 400 million. In addition to owning shares in YuTV Holding, a successful businessman is a member of the board of directors of Kommersant, and also holds the post of CEO of Megafon.
Voinov brothers - Semyon and Efim, 33 years old: founders of Zeptolab. Net Worth - $250 million each
Successful modern Russian businessmen are even those who make mobile games. Such representatives are the Voinov brothers - the creators and developers of the most popular game for mobile phones Cut The Rope. In 2015, the game reached a new promising level - the Indian company Nazara Games bought the franchise from Zeptolab. The prospect of this deal is designed to capture the Indian subcontinent.
The mobile game Cut The Rope was released in 2010 and over the 5 years of its existence has acquired an audience of 750 million users. Along with this, Semyon and Efim Voinovs became big millionaires. The popularity of the Cut The Rope game is so great that the main character Om Nom became crowded on the screen of a mobile device - a whole series was dedicated to him, and in 2016 a whole cartoon about Om Nom was released.
The Voinov brothers are truly successful businessmen in Russia. They made their fortune creating exciting games under mobile devices. The success story of Yefim and Semyon is truly amazing.
Little is known about the brothers' personal lives. Warriors do not like to give interviews and remain in the shadows from television cameras and the press.
Petr Kutis: 38, founder of OneTwoTrip. Net Worth - $130 Million
Successful Russian businessmen have also succeeded in the air ticket sales market. One of these representatives is Petr Kutis, the founder of OneTwoTrip. In 2014, online sales of airline tickets (including hotel and hotel reservations) totaled $11.2 billion worldwide. The indicator is very impressive, but analysts predict that the market will continue to grow and increase by 20-25% every year.
Experts believe that Kutis' fortune is about $ 130 million, but the businessman himself does not cover or comment on his financial affairs. It is known that in 2012 OneTwoTrip was invested in 25 million dollars by companies such as Phenomen Ventures ($9 million) and Atomico ($9 million). By the way, Atomico belongs to Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom. information that funds from Goldman Sachs ($8 million) and Vostok New Ventures ($4 million) were invested in OneTwoTrip in 2015. However, successful businessman Petr Kutis refuses to comment and reveal all the secrets of transactions .
Alexander Agapitov: 31, founder of Xsolla and Slemma. Net Worth - $125 million
Not all successful Russian businessmen were excellent students in educational institutions. A clear example is Alexander Agapitov, who was expelled from the institute for low attendance. Alexander at a certain point stopped going to classes, because he was engaged own work- he wrote a unique algorithm for betting sites analytics. His software was so successful that he predicted the outcome of sporting events with an 80% probability. Soon Agapitov launched his own service for paying for games via the Internet. The first development of the future millionaire was not doomed to major success, however, along with it, new ideas and developments were born. After a while, the improved product began to gain success, and soon the service developed into Xsolla, which is headquartered in California. More than 700 payment systems around the world operate on the basis of Xsolla software. The estimated value of the company varies from 1 to 1.5 billion dollars.
Conclusion
The stories of successful businessmen always surprise the masses. All these people differ from ordinary mortals in their strong-willed attitude and faith in their work. The new generation of businessmen is inversely different from the representatives of the old school. Successful modern businessmen are, first of all, people of the future. After all, all of them are somehow connected with the media space, the IT industry and the Internet, and all these areas are our future.
Well-known financial sharks who managed to build a business from scratch In order to name and describe all the happy owners of billions in capital, a whole book is not enough.
Most of the participants in the Forbes rating lists are businessmen who made their capital through the privatization of assets. large enterprises and firms. But we will talk about those who created their financial empires starting from the bottom.
So who are the top 10 entrepreneurs who own multi-billion dollar companies built from scratch?
The first place is occupied by the Russian businessman Sergey Galitsky, who is the director of the Magnit retail chain. Galitsky began his career as a student, helping the deputy manager of a Krasnodar bank. Such a non-dusty position allowed him to acquire useful connections and influential acquaintances.
Having managed to get initial capital in the amount of $ 30,000, Galitsky chose to invest them in the purchase of a popular product at that time, namely cosmetics and perfumery. Such a first investment fully justified itself and paid off in full, after which Galitsky registered the first distribution company Trans-Asia, which became the prototype of the future Magnit.
At the moment, the general condition of a businessman is estimated at $3 billion.
The second place was taken by billionaire Aras Agalarov. In a short period of time, the businessman turned from a graduate of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions into an influential general director of the Crocus company.
Agalarov took his first steps in business by exporting souvenir products from Russia, importing computer equipment and components in return. Despite the success in trade, it was decided to stop this type of activity and establish a new, exhibition business format.
Aras Agalarov is the creator of the first Moscow boutique, located on Stoleshnikov Lane. At the moment, the main business that brings Agalarov income in the amount of $1.5 billion is his company for the construction of large shopping centers.
The third place went to the alcohol tycoon with Georgian roots Rustam Tariko, whose determination can only be envied (of course, white envy). Holding the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Standard Bank, he successfully provided assistance to Italian tourist operators, settling tourists in the Rossiya Hotel, which was inaccessible at that time.
The appearance of new influential acquaintances from among Italian businessmen helped Tariko conclude a contract for the supply of elite Martini alcohol. It was an unheard-of success that gave a financial impetus to further development Tariko empire.
The businessman's fortune is estimated at $1.5 billion.
The fourth place rightfully belongs to Alexander Dzhaparidze (state about $1.1 billion). Success came to him after Japaridze, being an ordinary geologist in the geophysical expedition headed a joint project with the Americans, the purpose of which was seismological exploration of the area.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Alexander Japaridze managed to buy the necessary equipment and provide seismic services on a private basis.
Fifth place was headed by the owner of the Fashion Continent, and concurrently the governor of the Tula region, Vladimir Gruzdev. got mine start-up capital by issuing a loan in the amount of $500,000 by Sberbank. This became possible after successful management activities under the leadership of the well-known entrepreneur Oleg Boyko.
The governor's fortune is estimated at $950 million.
Sixth place is former employee Institute of Oceanology Andrey Rogachev, with a modest capital in $900 million. The idea of creating a business did not initially arise in the head of an entrepreneur, but in the late 80s Rogachev introduced an unusual idea to supply enterprises with devices to measure the concentration of harmful substances in products.
Thus, the first LEK cooperative was created. Having received the long-awaited loan, Rogachev within three years engaged in the supply of such equipment. The next source of income was the business of resettling communal apartments. After Andrei Rogachev left for the banking business, the beloved commercial network"Pyaterochka".
Seventh place went to the insurance magnate Sergei Sarkisov (capital $950 million). Favorable ground for the creation of an insurance company was provided by connections in Ingosstrakh.
Being fluent in Spanish, Sarkisov was able to attract the Spanish insurance company Iberia Seguros, which made a significant contribution to the development of a single "Russian-European Insurance Company".
Eighth place was taken by the founder of Maxi-Invest, Nikolai Maksimov. Together with his wife, he was engaged in the trade of wood and paper, after a preliminary loan of 75,000 rubles. Over the years of existence, the Niktan company could boast of millions of turnovers. Guided by the desire to expand the business, Maksimov started buying shares in large metallurgical plants. This was the beginning of the creation of the now famous Maxi-Group. The capital is almost $950 million.
Ninth place belongs to Viktor Kharitonin, owner of the Ufa pharmaceutical company Pharmstandard. General capital estimated at $900 million.
Kharitonin began his career while still studying at the institute, opening an intermediary organization LLP "Creditinform". Later, having moved to Moscow, he became the founder brokerage company, which specialized in exchange trading in vouchers. A big breakthrough in creating a large business was the purchase of shares in the Ufa-Vita company.
The tenth place is proudly occupied by Samvel Karapetyan, President construction company"Tashir". Karapetyan is a graduate of the Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. He achieved his first financial success by creating a sewing cooperative "Zenith", specializing in sewing overalls and fashionable at that time T-shirts with the image of pop stars.
After moving to Kaluga from his native Kalinino, Karapetyan became the head of the Kalugaglavsnab company, it was on its basis that the Tashir corporation was created. The core issues of the company are the construction and operation of shopping centers and exhibition halls.
And finally Reading a brief history career of each of the 10 people mentioned, you might get the impression that the process of creating a business from scratch is an elementary procedure that does not require ordinary mental and financial opportunities. Only now, if the financial issue can be solved with the help of loans, with ingenuity, everything is not so simple. Definitely, these people are special in their own way, if they were able to achieve such heights. It remains only to wish them good luck and professional success.
