Jeffrey Preston Bezos CEO of Amazon
Realizing the internet market growing at a dizzying speed, 2,300%/year, on July 16, 1995, Bezos established Amazon.
At the time, Bezos was just 30 years old and he quit his job to do this crazy thing.
To date, Amazon has become the second US publicly traded company to reach the trillion-dollar market after Apple. Bezos, who boldly built the e-commerce empire, is now the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of 156 billion USD.
Jack Ma CEO Alibaba
He founded Alibaba in 1999 with a capital of 60,000 USD and many other members. With wise deals and an investment from softBank, Jack Ma has helped Alibaba become a giant.
In 2013 alone in the Chinese market, Alibaba had 231 million customers with the transaction amount through its services reaching 248 billion USD.
Recently, Jack Ma surprised everyone when he announced that he would leave Alibaba to focus all his time on charity work on education.
Pierre Omidyar - CEO of eBay
Pierre Omidyar created eBay just to help his girlfriend sell a collection of candy. But 17 years later, it has become a giant company with a market capitalization of up to 56 billion USD and brought Omidyar 6.7 billion USD in assets.
Pierre Omidyar is currently the richest person in Hawaii and lives in a luxury villa in Honolulu. He has also retired a long time ago and committed to donating 90% of his assets to charity after his death.
Hiroshi Mikitani CEO of Rakuten
Mikitani graduated from Hitotsubashi University, then while working for the Industrial Bank of Japan, he was sent to study abroad in the US for a MBA course at Havard University.
On February 7, 1997, Mikitani and some of his friends set up Rakuten with $250,000 without any other financial support. To date, this website has become a virtual supermarket with a market capitalization of up to 13.5 billion USD and annual revenue of over 4 billion USD.
Rakuten has always maintained its position as the number one e-commerce website in Japan, and is one of the biggest names in this field worldwide. This company is also in the top 10 largest Internet enterprises in the world with annual revenue of 5 billion USD.
