Someone turns millions and billions, but it's not you yet? To be honest, what do you think when you hear success stories about Her or Him, in which everything goes fantastically well: the first million years at 25, the most expensive car, a luxurious house, several active businesses that inspire assets .... The success stories of rich people, in fact, are too diverse to be “combed” with one brush and taken in a stereotyped way.
It can often seem that rich people become rich without lifting a finger, because behind such a person successful person there were already golden mountains, green rustling banknotes donated by parents, and not taking advantage of all this is a sin.
So that nothing seems, and finally understand the reality for yourself - that you can sit in a soft leather interior of a car, or open a bottle of the most expensive wine on your own terrace, and all this without reference to already prepared soil, we will simply demonstrate 10 real stories becoming the richest people in the world from virtually nothing. From scratch, without support and golden diapers.
By the way, not all the biographies of the rich people of the world, which we will now tell about, are familiar to you. If you were guided only by Forbes ratings, there will be an opening. Why not expand your own boundaries?
10. Michael Rubin opens the top ten richest people on the planet. The future billionaire and founder of Kynetic sold seeds to his neighbors as a child. At the age of 10, the enterprising boy was already hiring 5 guys to remove snow from neighbors' lawns for a fee. At the age of 14, Michael already had his own store, and at 23, under his leadership, there was a company with a turnover of $ 50 million. Michael's fortune is estimated at 2.3 billion dollars. Almost always strong personalities begin in this way: with the manifestation of an entrepreneurial vein from an early age.
9. Oprah Winfrey will be the only woman in our ranking of the richest people in the world. Yes, not in the first place, but if it were a rating of diligence and dedication, she could be safely given the championship. Now she is 62 years old and her path to success has nothing to do with the story of Cinderella. She can answer questions about how rich people got rich based on personal experience: she plowed and achieved everything herself. Oprah Winfrey was born into a poor family. Mother was a maid and father was a miner.
For the first 6 years of her life, Oprah lived with her grandmother in the wilderness. The American TV presenter herself admitted in an interview that she was raped at the age of 9 and became pregnant at 14. The child died shortly after birth. At the age of 17, Oprah began working as a reporter, and in 1986 she created her own program, The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2011, she launched her own TV channel, OWN. The state of the TV presenter is estimated at 3.2 billion dollars.
8. This guy doesn't make tens of billions like some of the top rankings do, but he does have something in store: almost $10 billion in hard-earned capital. He owns a 7.6% stake in Facebook. Dustin Moskowitz was born into a Jewish family in Washington DC. The father worked as a psychiatrist, but more information about Dustin's family was not disclosed.
7. On the honorable seventh place in our TOP-10 the richest people Canadian-American engineer Elon Musk. He is 12 years older than Dustin Moskowitz. Elon Musk's net worth is $12.3 billion. He founded SpaceX and X.com. The latter, after merging with Confinity, was called PayPal and was sold for $1.5 billion. Musk was born in South Africa. True, his father was a businessman, and his mother - famous model Therefore, it is difficult to call a family poor. But there is a downside to the coin - Elon was often beaten at school, and this, of course, left a significant mark on the level of self-esteem.
At 12, Elon made his first video game and sold it for $500. It was the first independent earnings on the way to billions. If you look at what such children do from an early age, you can predict future success for them. And success "overtook" Elon.
6. Meet Li Ka-shing, the richest and most powerful man in Hong Kong and Asia. While Forbes was estimating Hong Kong's Superman net worth at $25.5 billion, it has grown to $34. And this is 2015 data. We think Li still did well in 2016. In narrow circles, this enterprising Hong Konger is called "Superman" and is now 87 years old.
Li Ka-shing is the chairman of the boards of Cheung Kong Group and Hutchison Whampoa, which have a capitalization of about 15% of the Hong Kong stock market. Among the stories of rich people who started from scratch, his is one of the most difficult. For understanding: Lee was born in the family of the most ordinary teacher.
From the fifth grade, Kashin began selling watch straps, and a little later he got a job at a plastic watch factory. 16 hours of work in a factory and after attending an evening school - this is how the Hong Kong guy Li Ka-shing began his journey to the first million. Having gained experience in the factory, he began to trade in plastic flowers himself, and soon headed his own company.
5. The stories of rich people who started from scratch are not the same. Like the story of Sergey Brin, who also falls into our ranking of the richest people in the world in fifth place. Sergey is nothing at all - 42 years old and he is a co-founder of Google. Sergei was born into a Jewish family of mathematicians who moved to the United States in 1979, and the future billionaire was only 5 years old. In 2016, according to Forbes magazine, the fortune of an American entrepreneur with Russian roots was estimated at almost $35 billion.
4. You probably heard about this guy too. Larry Page is an American billionaire who, together with Sergey Brin, created the first search engine, which eventually grew into the most powerful tool for finding any information - Google. Larry was born into a professorial family, and while getting an education at the prestigious Stanford University, he met Brin. The joint launch of Google, as we see, has become a gold mine for the guys. Now the state of Larry Page is estimated at 32.3 billion dollars, and this is 17th place in Forbes ranking however, in 2014. We dare to assume that in 2 years a couple of billions have increased.
Biographies of the richest people in the world: TOP-3. Who is in the lead?
3. Another example of crazy success without any seemingly chance of it from birth is American businessman Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon is one of the twenty richest people according to Forbes magazine. Adelson once again proves that the richest people on the planet are not those who were born and immediately fell into golden diapers. The son of a taxi driver, a newspaper salesman at the age of 12, a court reporter and even a toiletry salesman. Sheldon got a lot. The future American billionaire was born into a Jewish family. And by the way, he is recognized as the richest Jew.
According to the most recent figures that have been announced, Sheldon Adelson's net worth is $38 billion. Not bad, right? The billionaire receives the main income from his investments in real estate: the construction of casinos, hotels, shops, expo centers, etc.
2. We only write "Mark", and you already understand who in question. And yes, you are not mistaken. The founder also enters the TOP 10 richest people in the world social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. In May, Mark's wealth was updated (talking about money), and the capital amounted to $ 51.6 billion. But the guy is only 32 years old! By the way, like many on the list, he is of Jewish origin. Father is a dentist, mother is a psychiatrist. Mark has 3 sisters. How much do you think doctors could provide for 4 children? While still a schoolboy, Mark developed a network version of the game "Risk", and while studying at Harvard - an internal social network, which he himself did not bring to mind, but the guys came to the rescue: Dustin Moskowitz, Eduardo Saverin and others.
1. Ex-president Inditex could not be outside our list of the TOP 10 richest people in the world. And, you know, we put it first. While many multiply their income several times, Amancio Ortega, we are sure, is not "lost". It was he who in October last year received the title of the richest man on the planet according to Forbes magazine. But in May 2016, his fortune was estimated at 72.9 billion dollars. If the name of the Indetex company does not tell you anything, then you have heard about the Zara brand. Here Amancio is the founder of this brand as well.
Amancio's father was a railroad worker, and his mother was even "better" a servant. The family was so poor that the guy did not even finish high school, and at the age of 13 he began working as a messenger in a shirt store. Yes, did the 13-year-old guy then think that in 2015 he would lead the ranking of the richest people on the planet? We doubt. Today, the billionaire invests considerable sums in real estate in Florida, Madrid, London, as well as in banks and tourism.
This is how the ranking of the richest people in the world looks like, who started the path to their success from scratch. Are there no borders? They really don't exist. Just act, and any goal will be achieved. Who knows, maybe you will find yourself in the Forbes ranking in a couple of years.
Every time a global crisis occurs, it hits the main areas of human life. As a rule, companies collapse with a crash, production facilities are closed with a bang. But in the general chaos there are entrepreneurs who not only do not pay attention to such shocks, but also benefit from them. And for some, such conditions become prerequisites for the development of their own multi-million dollar business.
Of course, if we talk about successful people from other countries, especially distant ones, the example looks uninspiring. After all, these great successful people developed in different conditions than ours. Therefore, we will not shake the air in vain, but we will talk about several entrepreneurs in Russia who today have millions of dollars of capital.
Domestic entrepreneurs
Most famous example all over the country - Russian young entrepreneurs who created the social network VKontakte. Almost all the founders and ideologists today have sold their shares in the business. The reason for this, as one of the main founders Pavel Durov admitted, is the impossible conditions within Russia for the development of honest private business. He complained that the service is constantly trying to seize, divide, change, and then sell. After all, he has a huge impact on the public. But Durov did not fight the pressure, but simply emigrated abroad and travels around the world, not staying anywhere for a long time. And gradually develops a new project with his team.
But we are more interested in the very fact that, despite the difficult economic period, it was possible to create such a powerful commercial project. For example, one of Durov's partners, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, invested $30,000 in his business at the start of his business, and six years later became Russia's dollar billionaire, and the youngest at that.
But these are not the only well-known domestic entrepreneurs today who have reached amazing heights in business in difficult economic times. Let's talk about a few more below.
Maxim Nogotkov
Even during the crisis period, Nogotkov stated that the Russian market is favorable for the development of his business: there are many unfilled niches and a low level of competition. He did not throw words into the wind, and four years after such a statement, he was included in the rating of the 200 richest entrepreneurs in Russia thanks to the creation and management of the Svyaznoy group of companies.
Ilya Shershnev
Not all well-known businessmen in Russia started their business in their student years, but Ilya is one of those. As a student, he worked for the real estate company Penny Lane Realty. Having gained the necessary experience there, he founded his own Swiss Realty Group. By the beginning of the crisis, the company's annual turnover was $ 10 billion. But Shershnev had no experience in keeping his offspring afloat in difficult conditions, so it had to be closed. But the entrepreneur did not retire, remaining to work in this area as an expert, evaluating and managing the real estate of three shareholders.
Dmitry Salikhov
Before founding his business, Dmitry changed three various works. With the latter, he was fired due to a reduction in staff in connection with the impending crisis. But this did not disappoint him. Like many other entrepreneurs, he used this opportunity to start his own business.
It consisted in the provision of transfer transportation. He began with cooperation with several drivers in their cars, who, by agreement, met passengers at airports and delivered them to the specified addresses. When enough funds were raised to open his own office, Salikhov began to cooperate with the best taxi services. This gave I'way the status of an organization and brought in corporate clients. Now the company had two offices - one in each of the capitals of Russia.
But Dmitry did not stop there. Today, the services of his company can be used in 65 countries in 200 cities. At the same time, Salikov himself admits that he did not expect such a scale of business. His only desire was to occupy a free niche.
Andrey Guzairov
Before becoming an entrepreneur, Andrei worked in the West, where he spied on an idea for own business in Russia. Having accumulated for three years a suitable start-up capital, he opened the company CreditCardsOnline. The purpose of the project was to form a database of offers from all Russian banks to open credit cards. Today, 25% of the company's shares belong to the Finam Global fund, and the entrepreneur himself has a couple more Internet projects related to finance.
Andrey Romanenko
Before implementing successful idea, Andrey sold computer games, then made polyethylene
packages, and the start-up capital was earned on the production of plastic cards. It was quite a profitable business, but Romanenko felt that something more universal could be created. Thinking about options, he came up with the idea of creating Qiwi payment terminals. Initially, he did not make big bets on the project, but it turned out to be surprisingly successful. Already in 2013, it had more than 65 million users every month and a billion dollars of capitalization.
Vsevolod Starkh
Perhaps we lied, saying that Shershnev is one of the few who started a business while studying at a university. Vsevolod Fear surpassed him, starting entrepreneurial activity while being a high school senior. Even then, he was acutely aware of the need to earn his money, and the Internet provided the best opportunities for this. He started simply: he created his own website, bought a thousand USB cables in bulk and resold them online through his resource. When the enterprise began to develop successfully, he named the Sotmarket online store and began selling various accessories for mobile phones. Having accumulated enough funds, he further expanded his assortment with telephones themselves, then with small inexpensive equipment.
In 2012, he sold a controlling stake to the IQ One Holdings fund, and the online store grew in value to $ 100 million. The ideologue and founder himself continues to independently monitor the comments that customers leave on the resource. And there are up to 5 thousand buyers per day.
Dmitry Kibkalo
The formation of this entrepreneur is a confluence of various successful accidents. Although there is a whole category of people who believe that there are no accidents. And in a way they are right. And the case began with the fact that an employee of the production center Dmitry Kibkalo decided to give his father a board game "Jackal" for his birthday. The difficulty was that this pirate game was invented back in the 70s, and today it was not on sale.
Then Dmitry recreated it and turned to the manufacturers for a seal. It is strange why he did not turn to the popular online printing centers, where they make such things from one copy and more. In any case, this difficulty played important role in the further viability of Dmitry. He found a company that agreed to print the minimum batch of such a game - 100 copies. He gave one to his father, as planned. The remaining 99 were gradually sold out via the Internet, literally returning the invested money in just a month. Dmitry liked it and he created the Mosigra company, which began to sell board games but in offline format. Today, the chain of stores unites 17 own points of sale and 71 franchising projects. And they work not only in Russia. In total, Dmitry receives about 450 million rubles from the project.
Gevorg Sargsyan
It is difficult to describe Sargsyan's success. He did a fairly simple thing - he removed from the status of "pirated" products the adaptation of foreign games to Russian realities. True, such a step only looks simple from the outside. Before him was the need to sign a contract with foreign game manufacturers. To achieve this, I had to include all available communication skills and embellish my abilities and achievements a little. However, the contracts were awarded, Innova was established and successful business today brings Gevork one and a half billion rubles. The company is engaged in game projects in the amount of more than ten pieces, the most famous of which are Planet Side II, Lineage II, Aion and others. (11 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
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Today I want to tell you the stories of some of the richest people on our planet who were able to earn more than 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 company dealing with software for news companies, and 4 years later 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. Now he and his wife charitable foundation with a budget of 1.4 billion dollars, and he is also a member of the Giving Pledge project, which 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 American valuable papers while working for a representative office of 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. An enterprise that investigates computer crimes and ensures the security of influential corporations, large banks, oil companies, today is 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 spied on the idea affiliate programs by credit cards. 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 with removal from 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.
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 CEO 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. He received his start-up capital by issuing a $500,000 loan from Sberbank. This became possible after successful management activities under the supervision of famous businessman 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.
