Thursday, December 11, 2008

Self-made billionaires, and their first jobs

Via Eddy Elfenbein, here are a few notables:

Warren Buffet
Greatest Wealth - $62 Billion at age 77
First Job – Newspaper delivery boy

Michael Dell
Greatest Wealth - $17.3 Billion at age 43
First Job – Dishwasher for a Chinese restaurant

Steve Jobs
Greatest Wealth - $5.4 Billion at age 53
First Job – Gopher at Hewlett Packard

Oprah Winfrey
Greatest Wealth - $2.7 Billion at age 54
First Job – Part time radio news broadcaster

Mark Cuban
Greatest Wealth - $2.8 Billion at age 50 (and probably half of that after his divorce)
First Job – Bartender

Like Michael Dell, I was a dishwasher for most of my high school time, although I did some landscaping and babysitting for about $2/hr, before the massive 50% increase when I started at the restaurant.

Still have yet to crack a billion.

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