$2 Billion | Rank #1238 Who is David Baszucki In 2020, the company grew daily active users by 85%, to 32.6 million; hours spent on Roblox’s app and website soared 124%, to 30.6 billion. Players on the platform can buy a digital currency, Robux, which lets them purchase special …
$7 Billion | Rank #324 Who is Mike Adenuga His mobile phone network, Globacom, is the third largest operator in Nigeria, with 55 million subscribers. His oil exploration outfit, Conoil Producing, operates 6 oil blocks in the Niger Delta. Adenuga got an MBA at Pace University in New York, …
$6 Billion | Rank #403 Who is Li Xiaohua & family Clients include Panasonic, LG Chemical and Comtemporary Amperex Technology. Li graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a major in polymer materials in 1993. He worked for World-Pak Corp. in the U.S. after graduation until 1996. His brother …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Christine Knauf Based in Iphofen, Germany, the company employs more than 35,000 people around the world and has annual revenue of over $11 billion. Its product line includes plasterboards, cement boards and insulating materials. Knauf Gips dates to 1932, when brothers and …
$2 Billion | Rank #1513 Who is Vinod Saraf In 1989, he set up his own venture to manufacture isobutyl benzene, the key raw material used for making ibuprofen, a popular painkiller. His listed Vinati Organics is now among the world’s largest producers (by volume) of ibuprofen. His older …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Meng Qingshan & family Coming from an average or middle class family, Meng Qingshan & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And currently ranks at 1929 on billionaires list making …
$2 Billion | Rank #1292 Who is Alexandra Daitch She’s one of four billionaire sisters who inherited stakes in the company from their father W. Duncan MacMillan, who died in 2006. Her great-great-grandfather, W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse on the end of an Iowa …
$2 Billion | Rank #1292 Who is Alberto Siccardi & family The $429 million (sales) firm, based in Castel San Pietro, Switzerland, designs joint replacement and spinal surgery products. In the early 90s, Siccardi had a bad fall in the Swiss Alps and got a double hip replacement. Dissatisfied …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Vijay Shekhar Sharma One of the biggest beneficiaries of India’s 2016 demonetization, Paytm has notched up 400 million users and 25 million transactions daily. Sharma made a splash in August 2018 by getting Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to invest $300 million in …
