Michael Bloomberg
CEO of Bloomberg
Age: 72
Net worth: $35.9 Billion
Major: Electrical engineering, business administration
Financial media mogul, Bloomberg, graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, and in 1966 he received his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He then worked at an investment bank before starting Innovative Market Systems, later to become Bloomberg L.P.
Mark Zuckerberg
Co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Age: 30
Net worth: $33.3 Billion
Major: Psychology/computer science – drop out
Social media entrepreneur, Zuckerberg, studied psychology and computer science at Harvard in the early aughts. It was there that he developed “Thefacebook” – which would later become Facebook – in 2004. He eventually dropped out to focus on the project, and now basically runs the social media world at age 30.
Li Ka-shing
Chairman of the Board of Cheung Kong Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa and Li Ka Shing Foundation
Age: 86
Net worth: $31.2 Billion
Major: Nothing
Business magnate Li Ka-shing was forced to drop out of high school in Chaozhou in Guangdong province, China, before the age of 15, after the death of this father. Li sold plastic flowers in Hong Kong in the 1950s and is now Hong Kong’s richest person. His fortune comes from – among other things – operating container terminals, health and beauty retail, supplying electricity, and developing real estate.
Sheldon Adelson
Chairman and CEO, Las Vegas Sands
Age: 81
Net worth: $30.5 Billion
Major: Corporate finance – drop out
Hotel heavyweight, Adelson, – who started a candy vending machine business at age 16 – attended City College of New York in the 1950s, majoring in corporate finance, but dropped out after less than two years. He joined the U.S. Army, worked as a court stenographer, then a mortgage broker and investment adviser, then real estate.
Larry Page
CEO of Google
Age: 41
Net worth: $30 Billion
Major: Computer engineering, computer science
Search King, Page, earned a Bachelor of Science, with honors, in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. He was enrolled in the PhD program at Stanford where he met fellow PhD candidate and future partner Sergey Brin, and the rest is internet history.
