His oil and gas conglomerate Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company, just forged a partnership with BP, selling 30% stake in 23 oil blocks in India for $7.2 billion and forming a marketing joint venture. The deal is being touted as one of biggest foreign investments in India. He’s also betting on shale gas, having...
Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011 Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. According to Social Media Today as of April 2010,...
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Facebook along with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. Moskovitz owns a 6% share of Facebook. He is also a co-founder and the CEO of Asana.
Sean Parker (born 1979) is an American Internet technology businessman, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Napster, Plaxo, and Causes, and was a part of Facebook. He reportedly continues to be involved with Facebook in an unofficial capacity. His father began teaching him programming when he was seven years old; at 16, he was sentenced to
Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg and others. It is unknown how many shares Saverin owns in Facebook since it is not publicly available, however journalist Allison Kade speculated that Saverin might have 5%, worth about
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer scientist, software developer and philanthropist best known for creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is CEO and president. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. In...
This list of college dropout billionaires is based (where not otherwise noted) on an annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people compiled and published by Forbes magazine on March 11, 2009. The listed net worth represents the estimated value of assets less debt as of February 13, 2009. The list does not include heads of...
Mukesh Ambani is an Indian business magnate. He is the richest man in Asia and the fourth richest man in the world with a personal wealth of US$29.0 billion. On 29 October 2007, a strong rally in the Indian stock market and the appreciation of the Indian rupee boosted the market capitalisation of all Reliance...
