Interesting Facts of the World’s Richest

Posted: December 4th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Here are some very interesting facts about the world’s richest:

  • Youngest Billionaire: Mark Zuckerberg: 24 ($1.5 billion); Creator of Facebook.com
  • Oldest Billionaire: John Kluge: 94 ($9 billion); Media Giant
  • Larry Page, co-creator of Google, lost $1,000 every 11.7 seconds in 2008
  • Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, made $1,000 every 3.7 seconds in 2008
  • Number of Billionaires living in New York state: 74
  • Number of Billionaires who are entirely self made: 271
  • The University that has created the most billionaires: Harvard (49) with Stanford second (30)
  • Largest loss of a billionaire: Eli Broad (AIG) $780 million
  • Total number of US billionaires: 489

One Comment on “Interesting Facts of the World’s Richest”

  1. 1 david said at 11:59 am on December 5th, 2008:

    You forgot that the last 5 years of our gross capital went to the richest 2%


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