Aliko Dangote
Trading Firm
13.4 billion USD
Aliko Dangote was born in 1957. He is a Nigerian billionaire who is the Founder and CEO of Dangote. According to Forbes, Dangote’s net worth is around US$20.2 billion as of June 2022. He is the wealthiest person in Africa and the 70th richest individual in the world.
The Dangote Group started as a small trading firm in 1977. It began when His uncle loaned him $500,000 to begin trading items, including bagged cement and farming goods like rice and sugar.
Today, the Dangote Group is one of the most significant conglomerates in Africa, with global operations in Zambia, Benin, Ghana, and Togo.
The Dangote Group has elevated from a trading company to Nigeria’s largest industrial group. The company provides jobs for more than 11,000 people in West Africa.
Life Style: Aliko Dangote lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been divorced twice and has three daughters.
According to sources, he works 12 hours a day starting at 5 AM and works out six times a week.
Alex Karp
$850 million (company worth 1.11 Billion )
Software firm Co-Founder
Alexander Caedmon Karp was born in 1967. He has made his fortune being an American former businessman and co-founded a CEO of A software firm named Palantir Technologies. Karp successfully invested in startups and stocks after receiving an inheritance from his grandfather. In his earlier days, he founded A London-based money managing firm, Caedmon Group. By 2004, He teamed up with Peter Thiel, his classmate from Stanford, and others who co-founded Palantir as CEO.
Lifestyle: Karp lives in New Hampshire. He holds property in California.
He also leads a healthy lifestyle. His activities involve swimming, skiing, cross country, meditation, and martial arts.
Rihanna
Business
1.7 billion USD
Rihanna obtained a net worth of $1.7 billion. However, according to sources, most of Rihanna’s wealth comes from her business ventures rather than her music. Her most significant money venture was her makeup line, Fenty Beauty, which she co-owns with luxury goods group “LVMH .”She also co-owns the lingerie line, Savage X Fenty.
Oprah Winfrey
Talk Show Host & Philanthropist
2.5 billion USD
Winfrey was born in 1954 in Mississippi to her teenage mother. She would later on be later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. Her years of hard work and exploring different paths within her field has gained her success.
Robert F. Smith
Investor
6.7 billion USD
Robert Frederick Smith was born in the year 1962. Smith was born to two school teachers and grew up in a prominently black, middle-class neighborhood in Colorado.
Robert is an American businessman, investor, and chemical engineer. He is the Founder and CEO of his private equity firm “Vista Equity Partners.” The company is an investment firm concentrated on financing, forwarding software, and other resources to companies.
LifeStyle: In the late ’80s, Smith married his first wife, Suzanne McFayden, Then later married Hope Dworaczyk. Hope is the Founder and CEO of the skincare company MUTHA.
The colorado native has seven kids total; Three with his first wife and four with his second. He owns a few homes in Florida, Austin, Texas, Malibu, California, New York City, and Denver.
