$5 Billion | Rank #622 Who is Lin Xiucheng & family He injected his LED business into a Shanghai-listed firm in exchange for a majority stake and changed its name to Sanan Optoelectronics in 2008. Lin shares majority ownership of his main holding company, Fujian Sanan Group, with son …
$3 Billion | Rank #913 Who is An Kang An won a national science award at age 29. An’s hobby: Reading. Coming from an average or middle class family, An Kang is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And …
$5 Billion | Rank #552 Who is Robert Ziff The brothers’ late father, William Jr., built up Ziff Davis, published PC Magazine and Car and Driver, and sold the company for $1.4 billion in 1994. The brothers created the Ziff Brothers Investments and increased those proceeds by tenfold with …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Hu Kun Contec went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in August 2020. More than 70% of Contec’s revenue comes from overseas. Coming from an average or middle class family, Hu Kun is one those great persons who have stormed their way …
$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Dieter Schnabel By its own account, Helm began in 1900 as a Hamburg-based import-export business “for merchandise of every description.” Dieter’s father, Hermann, took over from the namesake founder, Karl O. Helm, in 1950 and set a path focused on chemicals. After …
$12 Billion | Rank #167 Who is Brian Chesky Airbnb went public in a blockbuster IPO on December 10, 2020, with the share price more than doubling to upwards of $144. A former bodybuilder, Chesky attended Rhode Island School of Design where he met Gebbia. Chesky is the son …
$4 Billion | Rank #637 Who is Robert Rowling The Omni chain has 60 locations and 21,000 rooms nationwide with big new hotels in Dallas, Atlanta and Boston. Rowling still owns Gold’s Gym, with 700 locations worldwide. He had it up for sale in 2018. He gave $25 million …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Fredrik Österberg Evolutions sells casino solutions to online gambling operators, primarily live-streamed tables of blackjack, poker, craps and roulette. Evolution’s first casino studio was set up in Riga, Lituania, in 2006. Today the company has live-casino studios in nine countries, including the …
$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is Iskander Makhmudov Makhmudov is also a shareholder in Transmashholding, Russia’s largest maker of locomotives and rail equipment. Born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, he lived in Tashkent and graduated from a local university with a degree in oriental studies. Billionaire Andrei Bokarev is a …
