$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Chen Tianqiao Chen is credited with having pioneered and built the online game industry and the online literature industry in China. Chen stepped down as CEO of Shanda Interactive Entertainment in 2012 and then took the company private. Chen and his wife …
$2 Billion | Rank #1445 Who is Xiang Guangming & family Weiming’s main business is solid waste incineration disposal. Xiang’s wife, Wang Suqin, also holds shares in the company. Coming from an average or middle class family, Xiang Guangming & family is one those great persons who have stormed …
$22 Billion | Rank #71 Who is Ray Dalio Working to make sure Bridgewater survives him, Dalio moved in 2018 to turn Bridgewater into a partnership and give employees more of a stake in the firm. Dalio grew up in a middle class Long Island neighborhood and started playing …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Zarakh Iliev The pair, who moved to Moscow from Azerbaijan, own roughly 14 million of square feet of real estate in Moscow. The partners developed a 225-acre wholesale distribution center, Food City, in Moscow and also several shopping centers on Moscow’s outskirts. …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Wei Yin-Heng Tingyi is now a big producer of ready-to-drink tea and bottled water in China, and it supplies half of the country’s instant-noodle market. The family also controls the Dicos fried-chicken chain. The family’s private company, Ting Hsin, sold its 37.17% …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Steve Case His Rise of the Rest tour funds startups from non-coastal states, stopping in cities to a host pitch competition for a $100,000 investment. Revolution has also invested in restaurant chain Sweetgreen, fantasy sports firm Draft Kings and wine retailer Vinfolio. …
$5 Billion | Rank #601 Who is Guenther Fielmann & family He opened his first optometry shop in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1972, and took the company public in 1994. It now has almost 800 outlets. The company, which sells roughly half of all prescription eyeglasses in Germany, also has …
$9 Billion | Rank #227 Who is Ann Walton Kroenke She inherited part of Bud’s stake in the retailer when he died in 1995. A registered nurse, Walton-Kroenke is not involved in Walmart as a board member or an executive. Her husband is billionaire real estate and sports mogul …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Li Tan She graduated from Sichuan University — the same school as her husband — in July 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. Li worked as a bureaucrat in Anhui Province from 1987 to 1992 before joining her husband at Chongqing …
