while drawing The richest people in the world Attention and spotlight to the huge sums they have raised and the work they do, many wonder how their start was? Did they go out into the world with a golden spoon in their mouth, as they say?
However, the truth is completely different.. There are brilliant names whose beginnings were ordinary and less than expected, and here are the most prominent examples:
Elon Musk… a farmer and a cleaner
For example, the CEO of Twitter, American billionaire Elon Musk, started out as a farmer, then switched to a job (cleaner).
The founder of “Tesla” and “SpaceX” was born in South Africa, and was forced to leave with his family to live in Canada and looked for work to help his family until he worked in an orchard, to leave him for a higher salary at a job cleaning a sawmill, and was paid $18 an hour.
Elon Musk (archive from Reuters)
Elon Musk described his job at the sawmill as the most dangerous in the world, noting that he had to wear protective gear and jump through a small tunnel; To remove sand, impurities and suspended matter.
And Musk has been number one on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the world since September 2021, with a fortune of $185.7 billion.
Oprah Winfrey .. a saleswoman in a grocery store
Media Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, stage actress, and international personality.
Oprah Winfrey grew up in a poor neighborhood where her father was a barber and her mother was a housekeeper, and Oprah Winfrey was subjected to much harassment in college because of the color of her skin, as she was of African descent, and has worked as a teenager at a local grocery store, but didn’t stay there long, to complete her education in Tennessee. After a scholarship, Oprah then landed a job at a radio station as a part-time reporter, according to the author Caitlin McInnes in her report published by the American site The Ladders.
According to Forbes magazine, Winfrey has a net worth of $2.5 billion, thanks to the success of her talk shows, television shows, and brand partnerships.
Oprah Winfrey
Warren Buffett.. Newspaper distributor
The beginnings of businessman and investor Warren Buffett were very modest in the business world. The billionaire businessman began his career by distributing the local American newspaper “Omaha World-Herald” on his bicycle at the age of 13 years.
And ‘Forbes’ magazine said that Buffett’s wealth is still $110.2 billion, which puts him fifth on the list of the richest people in the world.
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Mark Cuban… a garbage bag salesman
He is one of the most prominent businessmen in the United States and the world, he is of Russian descent and has had work experience in writing and film production.
Billionaire Mark Cuban was born in 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a family of middle-class Russian immigrants.
He also showed interest in the field of business at the age of 12, when he wanted to buy shoes that he was dying to own and could not do so due to his father’s disapproval of not having the money. It was only one of his father’s friends who advised Coban to work for him selling garbage bags, to earn an income to buy shoes and anything else he wanted.
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To make more money, Cuban increased his sources of income at an early age by selling football tickets and high school postage stamps.
Forbes estimates Cuban’s net worth at $4.6 billion.
Bill Gates… programmer
Bill Gates is a co-founder of Microsoft, and is one of the billionaires who have big money. He worked early in his life in the field of programming at the age of 13 due to his obsession with computers.
His fortune is 106 billion dollars and he is the fifth richest billionaire in the world, according to the website of the American business magazine Forbes.
Bill Gates (archive from France Press)
Jeff Bezos… a McDonald’s worker
Jeff Bezos is the founder and owner of Amazon, and held the fourth position on the list of the 10 richest people in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index until November 5, 2022.
Earlier, the second richest man in the world shared a photo of him eating burgers from McDonald’s restaurant chain, through his Twitter account.
And the Amazon founder attached that photo to a comment, in which he said, “My first job…and the burger is still great as it is,” indicating that he worked at that restaurant chain in its infancy.
Travis Kalanick… a traveling salesman
Travis Kalanick, the founder and former CEO of Uber, got his start in business as a teenage traveling salesman selling knives for Cutco in the 1990s until the age of 18, by which time he had already launched his first company, which offers preparation courses for the SAT test (the test that qualifies for admission to college in American education), is called New Way Academy.
Michael Dell… washes the dishes
DELL CEO Michael Dell was a stamp collector as a child, and his need to find a job was essential to finance his growing collection. When Dell was just 12, he started washing dishes at a local Chinese restaurant and he was so good that he was promoted to Later, according to Biography.com.
Michael Dell
Steve Jobs is a video game developer for Atari
Steve Jobs’ passion for technology and invention is not surprising. The late founder of Apple was so eager to learn the ins and outs of modern technology that he dropped out of college and became a video game developer at Atari. However, he didn’t stay long in this position, where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple a few years later when he was just 21 years old.
Steve Jobs
Tim Cook’s Newsboy
Current Apple CEO Tim Cook had a somewhat more modest start to his career, delivering newspapers in his Alabama hometown, working at a paper mill and then an aluminum plant in Virginia, before finally joining in the tech world in the early 1980s.
Apple CEO Tim Cook
The president of Macy’s worked as an oyster shucker
Macy’s CEO Terry Landgren originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but his grades did not help him achieve his dream, which prompted him to specialize in the field of commerce, and his father’s reaction was to quit to support him so he couldn’t In college, he got a job at a local restaurant cleaning oysters, eventually becoming a restaurant manager, before earning a degree in retail.
