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Elon Musk

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  • Space X- space technology & spacecraft

* Tesla- electric automobiles & renewable energy automobile solutions, solar panels

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Richard Branson

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British business magnate,investor,author & philanthropist 
*Virgin Group- 
Virgin Records- music label 
Virgin Atlantic- Airline
Virgin Galactic- spaceflight corporation
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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs

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  • Apple Inc.
  • Pixar
  • Walt Disney Company
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Bill Gates

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Wife- Melinda Gates

  • Foundation- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Microsoft- confounded with Paul Allen in 1975

Name- William Henry Gates III

  • Stepped down from Microsoft
  • Holds 1% shares currently in Microsoft
  • contributed millions during Covid’19
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Warren Buffet-USA

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  • Berkshire Hathaway -multinational conglomerate holding company
  • Geico- insurance company
  • Duracell- battery maker
  • Dairy Queen- restaurant chain

Known as Oracle of Omaha
Well known investor

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Jeff Besos- USA

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Richest man in the world

  • Amazon founder
  • Washington Post
  • Blue Origin- aerospace company, develops rockets for commercial use.
  • Donated $100million to feed America during Covid’19 pandemic
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Bernard Arnault -French

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CEO of LVMH(Louis Vitton Moét Hennessy)
LV merger with champagne producer Moét & Chandon and cognac producer Hennessy.

  • fashion, wine, jewellery, perfumes, watches
    E.g. LV, Thomas Pink, Givenchy, Tag Heur, Emilio Pucci, Dom Perignon, Tiffinay, Christian Dior
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Larry Ellison -USA

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Oracle -software company

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Amancio Ortega

Spain

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Zara- wealthiest clothing retailer

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Mark Zuckerberg -USA

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Facebook - cofounder, CEO, Chairman

Spouse- Priscilla Chan

Started FB in 2004 in Harvard at age 19

Contributed to Covid’19 through foundation run by his wife and him

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Jim Walton- USA

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Walmart- heir
World’s largest retailer
Youngest son of Sam Walton

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Alice Walton-USA

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Richest woman on Forbes’20
Middle and only daughter
Walmart

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Rob Walton-USA

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Walmart

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Sam Walton

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Founder of Walmart

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Sundar Pichai

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Google

Previously associated with Alphabet Inc. -conglomerate Multi industry company

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Tim Cook

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CEO- Apple Inc.

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Satya Narayan Nadella

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CEO- Microsoft

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Instagram

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Co Founders-

  • Kevin Systrom
  • Mike Krieger

CEO- Adam Mosseri

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Snap Inc.

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Evan Spiegel

Products-

  • Snapchat
  • Bitmoji
  • Spectacles
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Google

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Founder-

  • Larry Page
  • Sergey Brain
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Twitter

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Cofounder & CEO- Jack Dorsey

Cofounder & CEO of Square- mobile payments company

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Netflix

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Cofounder & CEO-

  • Reed Hastings
  • Marc Randolph
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Whatsapp

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CEO- Jan Koum (Ukraine)

Whatsapp is currently bought by Facebook.

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Xi Jinping

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General Secretary, Communist Party China

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Vladimir Putin

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Russian President

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Donald Trump

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USA President

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Angela Merkel

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First female Chancellor of Germany

  • led Germany through financial crisis and back to growth
  • allowed Syrian refugees into Germany
  • coalition government
  • BreXit
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Boris Johnson

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Prime Minister- UK

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Theresa May

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Preceeded Boris Johnson as PM of UK

Member of parliament

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Pope Francis

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Bishop of Rome, Roman Catholic Church

Residence- Vatican City

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Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud

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Crown Prince- Saudi Arabia
- Helped to identify sheiks and corrupt people in Saudi Arabia which helped to remove corrupt people who were considered in the Forbes List of rich and powerful people. Helped to get many names off the list.

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Narendra Modi’s

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Prime Minister- India

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Jerome H. Powel

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Chairman, Federal Reserve, USA

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Emmanuel Macaron

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President- France

Youngest president in France

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David Cameron

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Prime Minister- UK

Before Theresa May

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Li Keqiang

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Premier, China

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Ali Hosseini Khamenei

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Grand Ayatollah, Iran

Holy priest

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Mario Draghi

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President- Europe Central Bank

Known as Super Mario

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Jamie Dimon

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CEO- JP Morgan Chase

Largest Bank in the USA

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Carlos Slim Helu

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Richest Man in Mexico

Hi array Chairman, American Movil- Latin America’s biggest mobile telecom firm

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Justin Trudeau

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Prime Minister of USA

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