Five impressive billionaire entrepreneurs who were super poor before starting.
- Billlionaire Lifestyle

- Aug 13, 2018
- 4 min read

When it comes to talk about billionaires, you'd easily find the related information. even you can easily know about about who they are, where from they started, and what was their background. Internet is all about history, you van easily get to know about the people who are famous. According to my research, there are 2203 billionaires in this world. And America is the first country to have large number of billionaires in it. Many of them had fortunate families, and first class education. But, all the billionaires aren't rich from the starting. There is a large number of those billionaires who are self made billionaires. Yeah, they are self made billionaires. And it's because of they didn't give up on their dreams and goals. These self made billionaires started from the beginning, they faced hurdles, difficulties. They are the one's who started from nothing and chased down their ways beyond their limits. I myself like to read about billionaires and specially about self made billionaires, because their stories are the best one's and it's amazing and motivating too. What we learn from their past and their present is that, nothing is impossible and you can do everything and you can also make an impossible thing possible if you have a will of changing what's irritating to you. Let's talk about those five self made billionaires.
1: Jan Koum:
Net Worth: $9.2 billion.

If you use social media, then he's surely known to you guys. Jan Koum is the founder of Whats-app. And it's famous about him that before launching Whats-app he used to collect food stamps and he was a janitor. His birthplace is in Ukraine. When he was only 16, along with his mother he immigrated to america, where they settled mountain view in California. He and his mother worked at a grocery store, and he used to learn coding and how to use computer by reading manuals. In mean time he got a job at Yahoo, where he met Brian Acton. Keeping in mind the speed of growing apps, he bought an IPhone and thought of making an app which could be used to send messages. After launching Whats-app, this app became more popular and brought the attention if Facebook toward it.
2: John Paul DeJoria:
Net Worth: $3.4 billion.

He's mine favorite, because of his past history. Obviously you'd like him too after reading about him. He was homeless before he found a niche in hair care. Can you imagine living out of your vehicle and selling shampoo and conditioners and dreaming that it'd pay you a lot more than anything someday? Obviously it's a tough decision to make. He founded a hair care company "John Paul Mitchell Systems". They started with $700 to run their business. He has endured being homeless many times when his wife abandoned him and his son talking all the money they have with her. He worked for many hair care companies, and kept getting fired several times. But then he thought of make his own company with the help of his friend and now his company is the world's beat hair care company.
3: Oprah Winfrey:
Net Worth: $2.9 billion.

She's the most known women in the history of billionaires as she was the most poor women before she became the queen of all media. She also made her name in the most watched day-time show. She was born on a small farm in Mississippi, and was raised by her grandmother. She had a very miserable and an unstable childhood. When she was a teenager, her father decided to give her the best education and she won a speaking contest and got scholarship and enrolled in Tennessee state university. She got a job at a t.v. show and started hosting a talk show in morning. Her way of speaking brought the attention of audience toward the talk show and toward her too. Then she got an acting role in the screen adopting of " The Color Purple", and became the third women in the world to own and host her own show. Her show brought 10 million viewers everyday.
4: Larry Ellison.
Net Worth: $56.5 billion.

Obviously the most inspiring man on our list, Larry Ellison was dropped twice from his college. He's the founder of Oracle, and was born to a single mother. His company is one of the leading company in market to make software technology corporation. In his childhood he was adopted by her mother's aunt and had a bad childhood because he got sick. He did well in his college in the start but he left his college after her adopted mother passed away. He had a very little money for money, and decided to go to California to do a job. He became a computer programmer and was offered a job at IBM. There he decided to make a software with two of his colleagues. And his software got hit so much that IBM showed interest in buying his software. This software helped IBM to double their sales every year. He named that software as Oracle. And currently he's the world's fourth richest man in the world.
5: J.K . Rowling:
Net Worth: $1.2 billion.

Most famous novelist, Rowling was a single mother while she wrote harry potter. She was born in United Kingdom. She was on a train when she thought of writing harry potter novel. It took her seven years to complete her first book. And now, she's the first author billionaire on the Forbes list. When she got her book completed, her book series has sold 450 million times which made her fortune.




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