Amancio Ortega Gaona was born in 1936 in Spain. He is a fashion entrepreneur and currently the richest man in Spain and 8th richest man in the World in 2007. He is the founder and chairman of the Inditex Group.

Ortega arrived at La Coruña, Spain, at the age of 14, due to the job of his father, railway worker. Starting as a gofer in various shirt stores in La Coruña, Galicia, in 1963 he founded Confecciones Goa which made b ...

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Azim Premji was born on July 24, 1946. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University USA. He is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro, one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquartered in Bangalore, the Indian equivalent to Silicon Valley. Azim Premji is one of the richest man in India. In 2007, he was worth $13.6 billion.

Under Azim Premji's leadership Wipro has metamorphosed from a Rs.70 million ...

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Bernard Arnault was born in 1949 in Roubaix- France. He is a French businessman and currently the 7th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars. After graduating from school, Bernard Arnault was admitted to the École Polytechnique from which he graduated with an engineering degree in 1971. After graduation, he joined his father's company. In 1976, he convinced his father to liquidate the construct ...

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Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 9 percent of the common stock.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a large number of industry insiders ...

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Ingvar Feodor Kamprad was born in 1926. He is a Swedish entrepreneur who is the founder of the home furnishing retail chain IKEA. Kamprad was born on a farm and began to develop a business as a young boy, selling matches to neighbors from his bicycle. When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him a reward for succeeding in his studies. He used this money to establish what has grown into IKEA.

While generally a private person, Ingvar Kamprad ...

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Jack Ma is founder and chief operating officer of Alibaba Group.

Born in the city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Ma graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute in 1988 .

He first started building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. After a stint as head of the China International Electronic Commerce Center's Infoshare division, he founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a China-based business to business ...

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Jawed Karim is a co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube.

Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1980. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota.

Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central ...

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Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

After graduating from Princeton, Bezos worked on Wall Street in the computer science field. Then he worked on bui ...

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Jorma Jaakko Ollila was born in 1950 in Seinäjoki, Finland. He is the non executive chairman of Nokia and Royal Dutch Shell. After elementary school education he went on to study for a Master of Political Science (University of Helsinki), a Master of Science in Economics and a Master of Science in Engineering Physics.

Prior to joining Nokia in 1985 Jorma Ollila worked eight years in corporate banking at Citibank's London and Helsin ...

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Lakshmi Narayan Mittal was born in 1950 in India. He is a London based Indian billionaire. He is the richest man in the UK and the fifth richest person in the world, with a personal fortune of US $51.0 billion.

Lakshmi Mittal began his career working in the family's steelmaking business in India, and in 1976 Mittal set out to establish its international division. In 1994 he branched out on his own, taking over the international operatio ...

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