Below you can find the list of the Top 5 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World. For detailed coverage of this topic and a more comprehensive list, please see the Top 15 Serial Entrepreneurs in the World.
5. Mukesh Ambani
Net worth (in 2021): $75.7 billion
Country: India
Mukesh Ambani is the current chairman of Reliance Industries, an Indian multi-conglomerate operating in the petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom, and retail industries. Ambani’s father started Reliance as a small textile producer. Mukesh Ambani transformed the company into a diversified petrochemical giant. Today, Reliance Industries boasts a $123.8 billion market cap and annual revenue of approximately $80 billion. Mukesh Ambani owns various companies such as Reliance Retail, Reliance Life Sciences, Reliance Petroleum, Network 18, Football Sports Development Limited, Reliance Industrial Infrastructure, and Jio.
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4. Larry Ellison
Net worth (in 2021): $88.1 billion
Country: United States
Larry Ellison is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the second-largest software company in the world Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) which he founded in 1977. In the mid-1990s, Ellison saw a chance to compete with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) by developing a cheap alternative to desktop PC called a Network Computer (NC). Ellison’s premature cloud computing venture did not thrive as Microsoft’s Windows operating system kept winning the desktop market. In the 2000s, Ellison began Oracle’s aggressive strategy of purchasing rival software companies such as PeopleSoft (2005), Siebel (2006), BEA (2008), and Sun Microsystems (2010). Oracle’s biggest acquisition was the $9.6 billion deal for the world’s largest cloud-computing software provider, Netsuite (NYSE: N), in 2016. In March 2018, Ellison founded Sensei, a wellness startup focused on hydroponic farming and holiday retreats in Lanai Island, Hawaii. In the same year, Larry Ellison became one of the board directors of Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) after purchasing 3 million shares of the stock.
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3. Warren Buffett
Net worth (in 2021): $91.8 billion
Country: United States
The legendary investor Warren Buffett is definitely one of the top serial entrepreneurs in the world. Also known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett began to build up his wealth by selling soda, washing cars, delivering newspapers, and using his savings to buy a few pinball machines that he placed in local businesses. He purchased his first stock at the age of 11 and filed his first tax at the age of 13. The legendary value investor learned the fundamentals from one of his mentors Benjamin Graham. He enrolled in graduate studies at Columbia Business School after being rejected by Harvard Business School. In 1962, Buffett purchased Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) a textile company at that time. The company is now a conglomerate, owning over 60 companies, including the Geico insurer, the Duracell battery manufacturer, and the Dairy Queen restaurant chain.
2. Elon Musk
Net worth (in 2021): $177.2 billion
Country: United States
Our list of top 15 serial entrepreneurs in the world won’t be complete without Elon Musk. A radical dreamer, Elon Musk is an engineer. He is behind Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), rocket producer SpaceX, Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) and many more companies. The self-made serial entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and business magnate currently has a net value of $177.2 billion as of 15 February 2021, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaire List. Some of Musk’s ventures are slowly transforming the world, including Open AI, SolarCity, Hyperloop, and the Boring Company.
Musk is also shaking the crypto world as Tesla recently announced it bought $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. On the other hand, the multi-billionaire has contributed largely to the meme crypto currency Dogecoin’s growing popularity with his frequent tweets about it.
1. Jeff Bezos
Net worth (in 2021): $190.8 billion
Country: United States
Topping our list of the top 15 serial entrepreneurs in the world is Jeff Bezos. The richest man in the world founded the largest e-commerce company Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 1994 in his garage in Seattle. Through the years Amazon has grown to become a giant, acquiring Whole Foods in 2017 for $13.7 billion, establishing 17 physical bookstores, several Amazon Go grocery locations in New York, Seattle, and San Francisco. Bezos also has large holdings in more traditional investments, such as real estate. His 165,000-acre Corn Ranch in Texas was developed as a base of operations for his aerospace company, Blue Origin, and serves as a test site for the New Shepard suborbital manned vertical landing rocket. In the media and communications industry, Bezos has invested in Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) and the popular Business News Insider website. Jeff Bezos also acquired The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million. In the travel sector, Bezos decided to invest $112 million and $35 million respectively in Airbnb’s (NASDAQ: ABNB) B-Series financing and Uber’s (NYSE: UBER) transport services. One of his notable investments also includes Workday Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a company that provides human resource services in the cloud.
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