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Mukesh Ambani

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                MUKESH AMBANI Mukesh Ambani is an Indian entrepreneur; spearheading India’s most valuable company, Reliance Industries Limited, as the CEO and chairman. His company is ranked amongst the Fortune Global 500 with Ambani owning 44.7% stake, making him its largest shareholder. He was born on 19th April 1957 in Aden, Yemen. After completing his graduation and gaining a degree in chemical engineering, he enrolled in Stanford University but dropped out a year later when his father insisted that he came back to India to assist him with their company. Ambani joined the company in 1981 and from that time onwards, his career escalated with great force. He is credited for substituting India’s use of fabric to more innovative materials like petrochemicals and polyester fabrics. His feats include supporting the increase of oil and gas exploration in the country. He set up India’s first private oil refinery known as Jamnagar Refinery,...

Sergey Brin

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            Sergey Brin Who Is Sergey Brin? Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He met  Larry Page  at Stanford University, and the two created a search engine that would sort web pages based on popularity. Google became the most popular search engine in the world after launching in 1998, its overwhelming success turning the co-founders into billionaires. Brin and Page later became president and CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, before they stepped down from their roles in December 2019.  Early Life Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Russia. The son of a Soviet mathematician economist, Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979. After receiving his degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park, Brin entered Stanford University, where he met Larry Page. Both students were completing ...

larry page

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                          Larry Page  Who Is Larry Page? Born in Michigan in 1973, Larry Page's parents were both computer experts. Following in their footsteps, he studied computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met  Sergey Brin . The duo developed a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages and, with Page as CEO, Google became the world's most popular search engine after launching in 1998. Page and Brin later took charge of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, until stepping down from their everyday roles in late 2019.Early Life and Education Lawrence Page was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan. His father, Carl Page, was a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence, and his mother taught computer programming. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, Page decided to con...

Warren Buffett

Who hasn't heard of  Warren Buffett —one of the world's richest people, consistently ranking high on Forbes' list of billionaires? His net worth was listed at $80 billion as of Oct. 2020. 1  Buffett is known as a business man and philanthropist. But he's probably best known for being one of the world's most successful investors. Which is why it's not surprising that Warren Buffett's  investment strategy  has reached mythical proportions. Buffett follows several important tenets and an  investment philosophy  that is widely followed around the globe. So just what are the secrets to his success? Read on to find out more about Buffett's strategy and how he's managed to amass such a fortune from his investments. KEY TAKEAWAYS Buffett follows the Benjamin Graham school of value investing, which looks for securities whose prices are unjustifiably low based on their intrinsic worth. Rather than focus supply and demand intricacies of the stock m...

Russia

Official name:  Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya ) Land area:  494,208,000 sq mi (16,377,742 sq km) Total area:  496,223,000 sq mi (17,098,242 sq km) President:  Vladimir Putin (Since 2012) Prime Minister:  Mikhail Mishustin (Since 2020) Capital:   Moscow, 12.41 million (2018) Other large cities:  Saint Petersburg 5.383 million; Novosibirsk 1.636 million; Yekaterinburg 1.482 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.264 million; Samara 1.164 million (2018) Currency:  Russian ruble National Holiday:   Among others, the most celebrated is Victory Day (5/9), celebrating the defeat of the Nazis.   Population:  146,039,519 (March 2022 est.) Population Change:  Growth rate: -0.08%; 11 births/1,000 population, 13.5 deaths/1,000 population, 1.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population; infant mortality rate: 6.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.) Life Expectancy:  73 years   Nationality/Demonym:  Russian ( Ro...

Jeff bezos

  Who Is Jeff Bezos?  Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of  The Washington Post  and founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin. His successful business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the world. Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University. After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 he became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E. Shaw. Four years later, Bezos quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com, an online bookstore that became one of the Internet's biggest success stories. In 2013, Bezos purchased  The Washington Post , and in 2017 Amazon acquired Whole Foods. In February 2021, Amazon announced that Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of the year. Early Life and Education B...

Elon musk

  Who Is Elon Musk? Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.  Musk made headlines in May 2012, when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of SolarCity in 2016 and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President  Donald Trump 's administration. In January 2021, Musk  reportedly surpassed  Jeff Bezos  as the wealthiest man in the world. Early Life Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. As a child, Musk was so lost in his daydreams about inventions that his parents and doctors ordered a test to check his hearing. At about the ...