$15 Billion | Rank #119 Who is Mike Cannon-Brookes He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards. Atlassian, which has no sales team, boasts NASA, Tesla and SpaceX as customers. Cannon-Brookes has been a vocal advocate for reducing Australia’s …
$3 Billion | Rank #1012 Who is John Tyson The conglomerate owns beloved brands like Hillshire Farms, Jimmy Dean and Aidells sausages. Tyson is known for its chicken but the company’s beef revenues top that of chicken by approximately $3.5 billion. In 2019, Tyson Foods debuted its own alternative …
$4 Billion | Rank #709 Who is Shaul Shani He has since increased his fortune via mezzanine lending and investments in emerging economies. Starting in the 1980s, he cofounded three companies; two of them, Oshap Technologies and Tecnomatix, were acquired for $210 million and $228 million. In 2014, Shani …
$28 Billion | Rank #50 Who is Miriam Adelson She now owns more than half of the $48 billion (market cap) gambling empire, which has casinos in Las Vegas, Singapore and Macao. As GOP megadonors, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson donated $180 million to Republican campaigns and political action committees …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is George Thomas Muthoot The Muthoot Group was founded by his grandfather in 1887 as a trader in timber and food grains, supplying rations to large British-run plantations. The company has 5,400 branches across India and serves more than 200,000 customers daily. For …
$2 Billion | Rank #1645 Who is Huang Min Coming from an average or middle class family, Huang Min is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And currently ranks at 1645 on billionaires list making him one of the …
$3 Billion | Rank #1053 Who is Joseph Edelman Edelman founded Perceptive Advisors in 1999 and focuses on investing in biotechnology stocks. Edelman’s main Perceptive Life Sciences hedge fund is down 20% in 2021. It has lost money in only three years since inception. His fund generated returns of …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Yintai Jiang & family Daimay produces sun visors, seats and headrests, steering wheels and roof consoles. Customers include GM, Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagen, PSA and Great Wall. Jiang set up Daimay on the island of Daishan in the Chinese coastal city of Zhoushan …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Tsai Cheng-ta His father Tsai Wan-lin, who ran Cathay for years, was Taiwan’s wealthiest person at the time of his death in 2004. Brothers Hong-tu and T.Y., and cousins Richard and Daniel Tsai, are all billionaires too. Tsai Cheng-ta is from those …
