Famous™ Billionaire Carlos Slim Helú surpasses Bill Gates…
Carlos Slim Helú was born into a wealthy family. His father Julián Slim Haddad began a store with his brothers called La Estrella de Oriente (“the Star of the East”) which was a dry goods store formed in 1911. He and his 4 brothers contributed 25,800 pesos or the equivalent of about $2,490. By 1921 the store had acquired $100,000 in merchandise.
How many billionaires does it take to screw in a light bulb? Keep in mind this particular bulb will ignite Microsoft’s fight against Google. There are approximately five billionaires working on this deal; Steve Ballmer, Jerry Yang, Eric Schmidt, Rupert Murdoch and Carl Icahn.
As a result of the fight to acquire Famous™ Yahoo, Steve Ballmer has had to watch as Microsoft’s shares fell 10%, and when you own 400 million shares that amounts to about a billion dollars in losses. However, for a man whose net worth is approximately $15 billion dollars, who’s going to snivel (read the rest of the article here…)
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Born on August 30th 1930 Warren Buffet 77 has become one of the greatest American investors ever. His net worth is approximately $62,000,000,000 (billion, sometimes you just need to see the ZEROS to get the idea) as of 2008. Warren has three children Susie, Howard Graham and Peter Buffett.
Warren Buffett one of the world’s richest men has just stated of Obama, "He is my choice." And when someone who has been called "The Oracle of Omaha."