What makes a successful entrepreneur? What made the richest entrepreneurs so successful?
Hirav Shah, The Most Celebrated Astro-Strategist of India says,
I believe entrepreneurial success depends on the following traits
- Mindset
- Strategies
- Execution
- Luck or Grace of God
Hirav Shah asserts , if the timing is not favourable, all businesses will fail even if all factors are intact.
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Hirav Shah’s Astro Strategic Opinion
With everything that’s happened this year, it’s natural to have questions about your business. Any confusion or difficult YES/NO Business decision requires an expert opinion. You may be eligible for a Business check-up with Astro Strategist Hirav Shah to make sure your business strategy in terms of Brand, Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Mergers, Diversification etc…is still on track to reach your goals. Business Astrologer Hirav Shah’s answers have proven to be game changers.
Meanwhile, here is the most awaited The Hirav Shah’s list of the most successful USA’s businessmen who can inspire you in 2021
1. Jeff Bezos
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Introduction
Born on 12 January, 1964, Jeff Bezos is the founder & CEO of the e-commerce giant Amazon. Jeff tops the list of richest entrepreneurs in 2020 in the US and also he is the richest man on the planet today.
Past Work
He founded Amazon as an online bookstore in the year 1994. After that, there was no looking back for Bezos as he kept adding new categories of products.
Turning Point
Today, Amazon is not only the world’s largest online shopping platform but also has diversified interests in many other businesses like Amazon Web Services, Alexa, Junglee, Audible etc.
Bezos has been the world’s richest man since 2017 and this was his biggest turning point.
Earnings
Networth18,270 crores USD
Source E-Commerce
2. Bernard Arnault
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Introduction
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French billionaire businessman and art collector. He is the chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world’s largest luxury-goods company. In April 2018, he became the richest person in fashion, topping Zara’s Amancio Ortega.Arnault briefly surpassed Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world in December 2019. He again became the world’s richest person for a short time in January 2020.
Past Work
In July 1988, Arnault provided $1.5 billion to form a holding company with Guinness that held 24% of LVMH’s shares. In response to rumors that the Louis Vuitton group was buying LVMH’s stock to form a “blocking minority”, Arnault spent $600 million to buy 13.5% more of LVMH, making him LVMH’s largest shareholder. In January 1989, he spent another $500 million to gain control of a total of 43.5% of LVMH’s shares and 35% of its voting rights, thus reaching the “blocking minority” that he needed to stop the dismantlement of the LVMH group. On 13 January 1989, he was unanimously elected chairman of the executive management board.
Turning Point
Turning point came when he became the chairman & CEO of the fashion conglomerate LVMH, the world’s largest luxury-goods company. He also happens to be Europe’s richest person. LVMH has more than 70+ brands under its belt.
Earnings
Net Worth 13380 crores USD
Source Luxury Goods Company
3. Bill Gates
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Introduction
Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Past Work
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Turning Point
He is widely credited as one of the pioneers who revolutionized the personal computing industry with Microsoft’s operating system ‘Windows’. This became his career’s turning point and also the world’s. Started in 1975, Microsoft now has diversified interests in various companies including Skype, LinkedIn, Yammer, Microsoft Mobile (Earlier known as Nokia). He is also actively involved in various philanthropic projects.
Earnings
Net Worth 11,970 crores USD
Source Microsoft
4.Mark Zuckerberg
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Introduction
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.He also is a co-founder of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot and serves as one of its board members.
Past Work
Born in White Plains, New York, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched the Facebook social networking service from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. He is the only person under 40-years-old in Forbes’ list of the 20 richest people.
Turning Point
Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has grown leaps & bounds.Facebook became his life’s biggest turning point.
Recently, Facebook acquired social network & messenger apps called Instagram & WhatsApp respectively. Zuckerberg has pledged to donate 99% of his Facebook holdings towards charity.
Earnings
Net Worth 10170 crores USD
Source Facebook
5. Warren Buffett
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Introduction
Warren Edward Buffett ( born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, business tycoon, philanthropist, and the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered as one of the most successful investors in the world.
Past Work
Buffett has been the chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970.He has been referred to as the “Oracle” or “Sage” of Omaha by global media.He is noted for his adherence to value investing, and his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Research published at the University of Oxford characterizes Buffett’s investment methodology as falling within “founder centrism” – defined by a deference to managers with a founder’s mindset, an ethical disposition towards the shareholder collective, and an intense focus on exponential value creation.
Turning Point
He owns Berkshire Hathaway which owns more than 60 companies including Geico & Duracell. This became the biggest turning point of his life.
Earnings
Net Worth 8,730 crores USD
Source Berkshire Hathaway
6. Larry Page
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Introduction
Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin.
Past Work
Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 (stepping down in favor of Eric Schmidt) then from April 2011 until July 2015 when he moved to become CEO of Alphabet Inc. (created to deliver “major advancements” as Google’s parent company),[6] a post he held until December 4, 2019. He remains an Alphabet board member, employee, and controlling shareholder.
Turning Point
Being the co-founder & CEO of Alphabet Inc., the holding company of Google, was his career’s turning point.
Apart from being the world’s largest search engine, Google also runs a bunch of popular digital services like YouTube, Maps, Drive, Cloud, Gmail etc. Alphabet is also taking various innovative initiatives in health & smart home appliances sectors.
Earnings
Net Worth 7810 crores USD
Source Alphabet
7.Amancio Ortega
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Introduction
Amancio Ortega Gaona (born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories shops. For a brief period of time in 2015, he was the richest man in the world, bypassing Bill Gates when his net worth peaked to $80 billion as Zara’s parent company, Inditex’s, stock peaked.
Past Work
1972, he founded Confecciones Goa to sell quilted bathrobes.
In 1975, he opened his first Zara store with his wife Rosalía Mera.
In 2009, Zara was part of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima), of which Ortega owned 59.29%, and aside from over 6,000 stores included the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy’s Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear, Bershka and had more than 92,000 employees.
Turning Point
Co-founding Inditex which runs the popular fashion chain Zara was the biggest turning point.Inditex has 8 brands & operates more than a whopping 7,500 stores across the world.
Earnings
Net Worth 7560 crores USD
Source Fashion Chain
8.Larry Ellison
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Introduction
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of Oracle Corporation.
Past Work
While working at Ampex in the early 1970s, he became influenced by Edgar F. Codd’s research on relational database design, which led in 1977 to the formation of what became Oracle. Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid- and low-range systems, later competing with Sybase (created 1984) and Microsoft SQL Server (a port of Sybase created in 1989) which led to Ellison being listed by Forbes as one of the richest men in the world.
Turning Point
Being the co-founder of the software company Oracle was his life’s biggest turning point. Oracle is mainly in CRM databases. And, with its recent acquisition of NetSuite, it took a giant leap in cloud computing.
Earnings
Net Worth 7560 crores USD
Source Oracle
9.Carlos Slim Helu
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Introduction
Carlos Slim Helú (born January 28, 1940 in Mexico City) is a Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine. He is the richest person in Latin America.
Past Work
His conglomerate includes mobile telecom, education, health care, industrial manufacturing, transportation, real estate, media, energy, hospitality, entertainment, high-technology, retail, sports and financial services. He accounts for 40% of the listings on the Mexican Stock Exchange,while his net worth is equivalent to about 6 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product.As of 2016, he is the largest single shareholder of The New York Times Company.
Turning Point
His strategy and decisions became his career’s turning point.He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso .
Earnings
Net Worth 5700 crores USD
Source Investments and Mobile Telecom
10. Michael Bloomberg
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Introduction
Michael Rubens Bloomberg KBE (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P.. He was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, and was briefly a candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States.
Past Work
He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his own company in 1981. That company, Bloomberg L.P., is a financial information, software and media firm that is known for its Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg spent the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO.
Turning Point
Being the co-founder & CEO of the media giant Bloomberg was his biggest turning point. Bloomberg also expanded into financial & software services.
Earnings
Net Worth 5490 crores USD
Source Media, Finance & Software
Conclusion
World Famous Astro-Strategist and Business Astrologer, Hirav Shah shares his extraordinary insights for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs to succeed in their businesses.
He says , Besides everything, it is important to consult an Astro strategist, to get remarkable ideas which have the potential of attracting wealth, success & prosperity, promoting planetary effects in your life! Do not leave things to fate and be smart enough to imbibe the wisdom & magic of Astrology in your life, when it comes to the most important aspect of your life which is – Wealth.
