to become an entrepreneur you must dedicate your time and money back into the business you are
building oftentimes successful entrepreneurs don't start a business for the money
they start a business to provide a service to the public that makes their lives easier
you won't believe the journey the people on this list had to take to get where they are today
this is the top 10 most successful entrepreneurs in the world number 10 vera wang born in 1949 in
manhattan new york vera wang had a privileged upbringing she became a figure skater during
high school she competed in the figure skating championship with her partner james stewart
unfortunately her skating career fell short when she failed to make it to the olympic team her
entrepreneurship journey began after she graduated from college and earned a degree in art history
she started working for vogue at the age of 22 and within just a year she was promoted to
fashion editor and for the next 15 years she continued to hold that position until 1987.
she quit her job during that year and started a job as a design director for ralph lauren
wang realized that there was a shortage of non-stereotypical bridal gowns so with the
financial help of her father she opened her own bridal boutique her boutique rose to fame right
away and her clientele was made of popular celebrities such as kate hudson and victoria
beckham the price range of her wedding dresses is between seven thousand five hundred dollars
and twenty three thousand dollars number nine mark cuban mark cuban is another inspiring
entrepreneur whose net worth is estimated to be around 4.3 billion dollars united states dollars
he began earning his own money at the young age of 12 by selling garbage bags to afford
pricey basketball shoes while he was just an undergraduate student at indiana university cuban
managed to scrounge up enough money to buy a bar a move that was considered daring by his professors
after graduation cuban founded his first company micro solution which he sold seven years later
for six million dollars united states dollars he launched a website called audionet with fellow
university students the website which was renamed broadcast.com earned him 13.5 million dollars
united states dollars in revenue in 2000 he bought a major stake in dallas's mavericks
and thanks to him the team began to win more games until they became nba champions cuban
continues to invest money in startup companies and even became an investor on the popular tv
show shark tank in 2011. number eight steve jobs co-founder of apple steve jobs is a legend in
the entrepreneurship world jobs was interested in electronics at a young age he made the daring move
of asking the hewlett-packard president for parts for a high school project of his hewlett was very
impressed by jobs and offered him an internship at his company where jobs met steve wozniak
one of wozniak's hobbies was building small computers .20 years old jobs took an interest in
this hobby and convinced him to start a business with him they set up a shop and jobs garage in his
parents house named it apple and started working on the prototype the first prototype raised enough
cash to develop their product and they created apple ii which earned 200 million dollars united
states dollars in revenue within the first two years due to a few hardships along the way steve
jobs sold his share of apple and resigned in 1985. he launched a new company next and attempted to
sell the next computer but his attempts failed due to the expensive price he then shifted his
attention to another business pikes are animation studios where the animated movie toy story was
created the movie was a big hit and pixar's worth was at one billion dollars united states dollars
apple then bought pixar for 400 million dollars united states dollars and rehired
jobs again for the next 10 years apple began to launch products that were massive successes
thanks to steve jobs he officially resigned from his ceo position in 2011 and passed away six weeks
later from cancer number seven sergey brin with a net worth of 66 billion united states dollars
sergey brin was titled the seventh wealthiest person in the world as of july 2020. bryn was born
in moscow russia and moved to the usa in 1979. he was enrolled at stanford university and during
his orientation day he met larry page the two of them transformed bryn's dorm room into an office
they created a website pagerank which ranked other websites on the number of page links that they had
this website soon became a search engine which they called google in 1998
they also launched the company google incorporated and within its first five years google reached
great success with more than 18 million searches a day the company continued to grow and it acquired
youtube for 1.6 billion in stock in 2006. bryn stepped down from his role from google's parent
company in december of 2019 number six larry ellison founder and ceo of oracle larry ellison
is an american entrepreneur with a net worth of 72.9 billion dollars united states dollars
ellison grew up in chicago and was raised by his aunt and uncle who adopted him he attended the
university of illinois but dropped out after just one year after the death of his adoptive mother
ellison never graduated from college for the next 10 years ellison continued to jump from one job
to another during those years he began learning basic computer skills and software programming
he started working on the first ibm compatible mainframe system and in 1977 he launched oracle
as ellison continued to develop and update oracle the revenue started to double every year
for seven consecutive years despite a few bumps in the road oracle's success never stopped and
as oracle's largest shareholder ellison became one of the world's richest people number five mark
zuckerberg mark zuckerberg became a household name when facebook gained worldwide fame and success
his love for programming started in high school he and a fellow student adam d'angelo created a
plug-in that caught the attention of microsoft the two of them were offered a job at microsoft but
they both rejected it to attend college zuckerberg went to harvard university to study programming
but that wasn't enough to satisfy his love for programming in 2004 he created a website which
he named fasimash where he uploaded pictures of other students that he acquired by hacking into
the database of the university he had a vision of creating a website where students could be
introduced to one another and he successfully created facebook which was a combination of
mispis and friendster he officially launched facebook with his co-founder from his dorm room
and within just a few weeks a large number of students created their profile on the platform
after a year and a half zuckerberg had earned 12.7 million dollars
currently facebook has more than 2.4 billion active users and is one of the most visited
websites on the internet zuckerberg's net worth sits at 96 billion dollars united states dollars
number four elon musk elon musk is a south african entrepreneur that took the world by a storm
as a child he was introverted and loved to read he was also very interested in computer programming
in 1989 he attended queen's university and in that same year he obtained canadian citizenship
as he thought it would help obtain american citizenship which he acquired in 2002
he went to stanford university but dropped out less than a week later to take advantage of
the rise of the internet he created his first company zip2 corporation with his brother the
company was sold for 307 million dollars he then created x-com which merged with another company
that had a money transfer service and that was the birth of paypal musk became a billionaire
when he sold it to ebay for 1.5 billion dollars spacex yelen's third company was founded in 2002.
his company made history as the first private company to send a spacecraft to space
with spacex's success musk became a co-founder of tesla motors a company dedicated to creating
electric cars and as of 2020 his net worth is estimated to be around 83.6 billion dollars united
states dollars number three bill gates founder of the world's biggest software company william
henry gates 3 more famously known as bill gates is an inspiring example of a successful entrepreneur
bill gates was born in 1955 in seattle despite his parents wanting him to pursue a law career gates
was more interested in programming and coding he attended a prestigious school in seattle where he
alongside paul allen a fellow student started to ditch their classes to use the school's computer
room at the age of 16 the two students created software that earned them twenty thousand dollars
gates and allen were attending harvard university when the world's first microcomputer was created
they took this as an opportunity to contact the manufacturer about having written a version of
a computer language for the microcomputer when in actuality they hadn't written anything to
their surprise the president of the company asked them to see what they have written
the two of them worked day and night to write it and it successfully ran and that's how microsoft
was born in 1986 gates was earning 61 million dollars after the release of the operating system
windows and he became one of the richest people overnight by 1999 his wealth was estimated to
be a staggering 90 billion dollars gate's net worth currently sits at 114 billion dollars
number two jeff bezos it can be said with confidence that jeff bezos is one of the most
successful entrepreneurs of our time bezos was born in 1964 in albuquerque new mexico
his first job was during high school he worked as a cook during the morning shift after high school
he attended princeton university where he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and
computer science with an impressive gpa of 4.2 in 1986. after graduation he received multiple
job offers before he began working at the then newly founded investment bank d e shaw and company
he worked there for four years and became the company's youngest senior vice president
bezos was once browsing the internet and he discovered that the world wide web usage was
increasing tremendously each year he decided to take advantage of this discovery and to open
an online bookstore he moved to seattle with his family and started working on the software for his
virtual bookstore with a handful of employees out of his garage he created amazon.com named after
the river where he listed 1 million books the first purchase was made in july of 1995 and the
website continued to grow in popularity thanks to mailing lists and news groups by 1996 amazon sales
achieved more than 15 million dollars in sales and had grown into a company with 1 000 employees
he decided to diversify his company and to sell more than just books to eliminate any competition
the company continued to grow and dominated all of the online retail websites despite bezos humble
beginning he became one of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs in the world with a net
worth of 190.6 billion dollars number one john d rockefeller john d rockefeller born in 1839 was an
entrepreneur who revolutionized the oil industry and became one of the richest men in the world
his net worth is estimated to be 418 billion dollars in 2019 he was born to a middle-class
family and at the age of 16 he landed his first job working as an assistant in a bookstore
earning 50 united states dollars per month at the age of 20 he was working as a commission merchant
with a business partner when he saw an opportunity in the oil industry he closed his company which
had grossed 450 000 and opened his first oil refinery in cleveland and within the first
two years rockefeller dominated the oil industry and his refinery became the largest in cleveland
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