Jul 18, 2023
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX among several others, Musk has a Bachelor of Science in economics & Bachelor of Arts in physics from University of Pennsylvania. He was accepted for a Ph.D. in Material Science at Stanford University. In Oct. 2022, he purchased Twitter for $44 bn.
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Bernard Arnault is the CEO & chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, world's largest luxury goods company. He has an engineering degree from École Polytechnique in Paris. In Jan 2023, he appointed his daughter Delphine to lead Dior, the group's second-largest brand.
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Jeff Bezos is a Princeton University graduate & has a degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. In July 2021, Jeff Bezos decided to give up his role as CEO of the e-commerce powerhouse Amazon while still maintaining his position as chairman.
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Larry Ellison co-founded software firm Oracle in 1977 & was its CEO until 2014. He was a science student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign from 1962- 1964 & later at the University of Chicago in 1966. Currently, he is the chairman & CTO of Oracle.
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Bill Gates co-founded software giant Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. Gates is a pre-law major & studied mathematics & computer science courses at Harvard University. In 2021, Gates & his then-wife, Melinda Gates finalised their divorce.
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Warren Buffett or the 'Oracle of Omaha,' is the head of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment group with companies, like Geico, Duracell and Dairy Queen. He studied Business Administration at University of Nebraska and Master of Science (Economics) at Columbia Business School.
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A ‘programming prodigy’, Zuckerberg studied psychology & computer science at Harvard University. In his second year, he started working on his project Facebook & later dropped out of Harvard to focus on this project. In 2017, he received an honorary degree from Harvard.
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Larry Page studied Computer Engineering at University of Michigan. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. He also pursued a Ph.D. at Stanford University where he developed the ‘PageRank’ algorithm, the foundational technology of Google.
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Steven Anthony Ballmer, a businessman & investor was the CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He also owns the Los Angeles Clippers of NBA. He was a Bachelor of Science at Harvard University & a classmate of Bill Gates! He dropped out of his MBA at Stanford University.
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Carlos Slim Helu & his family exercise control over América Móvil, the largest mobile telecommunications company in Latin America that operates in over 15 countries. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
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