14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing: -Jan Koum, the CEO and cofounder of WhatsApp, once lived on food stamps before Facebook made him a billionaire. (Net Worth $7.7 Billion) -Jack Ma taught English before founding Alibaba in 1999. (Net Worth $20.2 Billion) -Elizabeth Holmes started her blood diagnostics company when she was 19. Now at 30, shes a billionaire. (Net Worth $4.5 Billion) -Ingvar Kamprad was raised on a farm in Sweden before founding IKEA. (Net Worth $3.9 Billion) -Starbucks Howard Schultz grew up in a housing complex for the poor. (Net Worth $2.1 Billion) -Born into poverty, Oprah Winfrey became the first African American TV correspondent in Nashville. (Net Worth $3 Billion) -At one time, businessman Shahid Khan washed dishes for $1.20 an hour. (Net Worth $4.4 Billion) -John Paul DeJoria, the man behind a hair-care empire and Patron Tequila, once lived in a foster home and his car. (Net Worth $3.2 Billion) -Forever 21 cofounder Do Won Chang worked as a janitor, gas station attendant, and in a coffee shop when he first moved to America. (Net Worth $5.2 Billion) -Ralph Lauren was once a clerk at Brooks Brothers dreaming of mens ties. (Net Worth $7.8 Billion) -Leonardo Del Vecchio grew up in an orphanage and later worked in a factory where he lost part of his finger. (Net Worth $18.4 Billion) -Legendary trader George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and arrived in London as an impoverished college student. (Net Worth $24 Billion) -Oracles Larry Ellison dropped out of college after his adoptive mother died and held odd jobs for eight years. (Net Worth $48 Billion) -Roman Abramovich was orphaned as a child. Now the Russian tycoon owns the Chelsea football club. ($9.5 Billion)
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:32:54 +0000
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