Steve Jobs
was born in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Apple Inc..
On April 1, 1976, Jobs signed a contract and decided to establish a computer company. In April 1977, Jobs showed the Apple II prototype at the first computer exhibition in the United States. In 1998, apple launched iMac . The innovative transparent shell color design made the product a big seller and allowed Apple to survive the financial crisis. On August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs submitted his resignation to Apple's board of directors.
On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor at the age of 56.
Since 1972, he has believed in Buddhism .
Elon Reeve Musk
was born on June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. He is an entrepreneur and an academician of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He has triple nationality of South Africa, Canada and the United States. He serves as CEO and CTO of Space Exploration Technology Company (SpaceX), CEO of TESLA (TESLA) Company, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SolarCity Company (SolarCity).
Elon Musk graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a double major in economics and physics. From 1995 to 2002, Musk and his partners established three companies, namely online content publishing software "Zip2", electronic payment "X.com" and "PayPal". In June 2002, Musk invested US$100 million to found , an American space exploration technology company, and served as CEO and chief technology officer. In 2004, Musk invested US$6.3 million in Tesla Motors and became the company's chairman. On May 31, 2012, the "Dragon" capsule of Musk's company SpaceX successfully docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth, ushering in the era of private operation of space transportation. At 4:45 on February 7, 2018, SpaceX's "Falcon Heavy" launch vehicle was successfully launched for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, and successfully completed the complete recovery of two first-stage booster rockets.
In 2021, Musk became the first person in history to be worth more than 300 billion US dollars. [On December 13, Elon Musk was named Time magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year.
Kazuo Inamori
was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Kagoshima University. At the age of 27, he founded Kyoto Ceramics Co., Ltd. (now known as Kyocera), and at the age of 52, he founded Second Telecom (formerly known as DDI, now known as KDDI, the second largest communications company in Japan after NTT). Both companies are in He entered the Fortune Global 500 in his lifetime. It is a pity that after the war in Japan, the trend was to choose smart and eloquent people as leaders, ignoring moral norms and ethical standards, resulting in frequent scandals in the political and business circles. He suggested that the selection criteria for leaders should be that virtue should be higher than talent, that is, those who are superior to others should put personality first, courage second, and ability third. He pointed out that love is the torch that ignites passion for work. No matter what the job is, as long as you go all out to do it, you will have a great sense of accomplishment and self-confidence, and you will be motivated to challenge the next goal. Successful people are often those who are addicted to what they do.
Yanai Masaru
was born in Chuo-cho, Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from the Department of Political Economics of Waseda University. Currently, he is the chairman, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Japan's Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. The company was founded in 1963 and owns the famous brand "Uniqlo" (Uniqlo). It is a leading company in casual clothing in Japan.
In April 2021, the 2021 Forbes Rich List was released. Masayan Yanai and his family ranked 31st on the "2021 Forbes Global Rich List" with US$44.1 billion.
Jack Welch
was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1960 with a doctorate in chemistry. After graduation, he joined the General Electric Plastics Division; at the end of 1971, Welch became a general manager of Chemistry and Metallurgy. General manager of the business unit and continued to be promoted. In August 1979, he became the company's vice chairman. In April 1981, at the age of 45, Jack Welch became the youngest chairman and CEO in the history of General Electric.
Jack Welch is the chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE). In just 20 years, this business legend increased GE's market capital more than 30 times, reaching 410 billion US dollars, and its ranking rose from 10th to 1st in the world. The " Six Sigma " standards, globalization and e-commerce he promoted have almost redefined modern enterprises.
retired in September 2001. He is known as "the most respected CEO", "the world's number one CEO", and "the most successful and greatest entrepreneur in the United States today".
On March 2, 2020, Jack Welch passed away at the age of 84.
Bill Gates
was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is an entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, founder of Microsoft, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (foreign). He once served as chairman, CEO and chief software designer of Microsoft .
Bill Gates started computer programming at the age of 13. He was admitted to Harvard University at the age of 18. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen. Bill Gates served as the chairman, CEO and chief executive officer of Microsoft. Software designer .
From 1995 to 2007, he became the top richest person in the world by Forbes for 13 consecutive years and the top richest man in the United States by Forbes for 20 consecutive years. In 2014, Bill Gates resigned as chairman of the board and returned to . World 's richest man. On February 26, 2020, it ranked third in the " 2020 Hurun Global Rich List " with a wealth of 740 billion yuan. In October 2021, he ranked 4th in the "2021 American Rich List" with a wealth of US$134 billion.
Jeff Bezos
founded the world's largest online bookstore Amazon (Amazon). In 1999, he was elected to the Times 》Weekly Person of the Year. In August 2013, Bezos spent US$250 million in his own name to acquire the " Washington Post ".
In February 2014, Jeff Bezos, who was only 50 years old, ranked 7th on the 2014 World Rich List with 225 billion yuan. On September 29, 2015, Forbes released a list of the top 400 richest Americans, showing that Jeff Bezos ranked fourth with a net worth of US$47 billion.
On July 20, 2021 local time, Amazon founder Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos took the Blue Origin "New Shepard" rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometers above the earth's surface. Traveling with them are the oldest and youngest astronauts: an 82-year-old female pilot and an 18-year-old Dutch student.
Masayoshi Son
was born in Japan and is an internationally renowned investor. Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978. In 1981, he founded software banking group . He is currently the chairman and president of Software Bank Group.
On April 6, 2020, Sun Zhengyi ranked 50th in the "Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs" with a wealth of 135 billion yuan. On June 25, Masayoshi Son announced his withdrawal from the board of directors of Alibaba Group.
Masayoshi Son, 18, made a profit of 1 million by selling a video game imported from Japan on campus. In 1976, at the age of 19, while in school, he used the resources of the famous American Jet Propulsion Laboratory to sell the patent of a pocket voice translator to Sharp Company, earning his second million US dollars.
Larry Page,
is an honorary graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a bachelor's degree in science and engineering from the University of Michigan and a PhD in computer science from Stanford University.One of the founders of Google, he officially became CEO of Google on April 4, 2011.
On April 6, 2020, Larry Page ranked 13th on the "Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs" with a wealth of 380 billion yuan.
In 2000, under Page's leadership, Google developed into the largest Internet search engine. Yahoo chose Google as its default search results provider. In 2001, Page resigned as CEO and hired Dr. Eric Schmidt from Novell to serve as CEO of Google, while he served as product director. In 2003, Page led Google to launch AdSense after acquiring Semantics and Sprinks for US$102 million. This advertising plan can advertise based on website content.
In 2004, Google was listed on Nasdaq .
Warren Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He has a master's degree in economics and is currently the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is a world-famous investor. His main investments include stocks and funds.
On April 6, 2020, Warren Buffett ranked third in the "Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs" with a wealth of 590 billion yuan; On March 2, 2021, Warren Buffett had a wealth of 589 billion yuan. Ranked 6th in the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List ";
In May 2022, Berkshire Hathaway shareholders voted at a ratio of nearly 9 to 1 to support Buffett to continue to serve as chairman and CEO. .
On March 1, 2016, Forbes announced the list of the world's richest people, and Warren Buffett ranked third with a personal wealth of US$60.8 billion.
On June 17, 2022 local time, the 2022 Buffett Charity Lunch Auction ended, with the winning bid price of US$19.001 million (equivalent to RMB 127.62 million), setting a record for the "Buffett Lunch" auction. This is the last time a "Buffett Lunch" auction will be held.
