World’s Most Powerful Ceos In 2018

World’s Most Powerful Ceos In 2018

Forbes has recently named the world’s most powerful CEOs for 2018 and below is a review of how this great men all started, some got there fast, some not that fast but a summary of how they arrived here could place us on the lane of encouragement…

Jeff Bezos, 54 (Amazon)

 

Jeff Bezos who on July 5, 1994, founded Amazon an online marketing site originally made for selling books and later on diversified into selling music and videos. Today, Amazon doesn’t just sell these alone but almost any kind of consumer goods you can think of. Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, Bezos has to be the only man with net worth to surpass $150billion for the past 3 decades that Forbes has been following up the richest Americans. As of today 3rd of January, his net worth is $127.6 billion.

Larry Page, 45 (Alphabet)

 

Larry Page the CEO of Alphabet, but before then, he attended Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin who he co-founded Google with and launched after raising $1 million from well-wishers in 1998. By 2000 Google has indexed one billion Internet URLs. Being the first CEO of the company until 2001 and later assumed the position again in 2011. As of today Page, net worth is $48.9B.

Mark Zuckerberg, 34 (Facebook)

Zuckerberg founded today’s top social media website originally for students to match faces with names in 2004 at the age of 19 and launched it for public use in 2012. By the year 2018, the Facebook CEO faced a lot of critics from the members of the public after revealing that Facebook shared users’ data with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, not only that, in the same year the company suffered from a cyber-attack. That attacker had access to 50 million user’s accounts according to Facebook. Today Mark’s net worth is estimated to be $50.8B today.

Warren Buffett, 88 (Berkshire Hathaway)

 

Buffett has always been a lover of business. He almost skipped college to dive into it if not for his father, even while in college he sold door-to-door magazines, Coca-Cola bottles, and even bubble gums, at age 11 he bought shares from the New York Stock Exchange for him and his sister. Warren Buffett owns a wide variety of businesses through his massive conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B). He grew the failing New England Textile Company into a booming enterprise, He began buying shares in Berkshire from Seabury Stanton, the owner, whom he later fired in 1964. According to Forbes, today he can boast of $80.4B net worth.

Jamie Dimon, 62 (JP Morgan)

 

Jamie Dimon who I once heard could not afford to take his then girlfriend (present wife) out for a date which she funded is today the CEO of JP Morgan, one of the big four of America bank. Dimon worked for BankOne before JP Morgan bought the bank in 2004 and by the last day of 2005 was named the CEO, by the same date 2006 was named President and Chairman. As of 1/4/19, his net worth is 1.2 billion U.S dollars.

Jack Ma, 54 (Alibaba)

 

Jack is China’s wealthiest man who had a very funny and interesting career start. He had to take the annual china’s exam into college and made it at the fourth trial, in 1995 he traveled to the US to get more information about the Internet, he noticed that China had no presence online, then he designed a funky one and in 3 hours of launch got the attention of an investor. Ventured into web design through the aid of his US friends, a company he called China page. In 1999 Alibaba was born which he became the CEO of the group having subsidiaries like Alibaba.com, Taobao Marketplace, Tmall, eTao, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Juhuasuan, 1688.com, AliExpress.com, and Alipay. Today, his net worth hits $32.6B.

Source: Nairaland.com