CEO Today Top 50 – Warren Buffett
CEO Top 50
Name: Warren Buffett
Net worth: Approx. $83 billion
Company: Berkshire Hathaway
Bio: It’s not hard to believe that philanthropist and business magnate, Warren Buffett, is considered one of the most successful investors in the world – in his youth, he attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the pursuit of business and investing and invested in a 40-acre Omaha farm as a freshman. When Berkshire Hathaway began selling class A shares on May 29, 1990 with the market closing at $7,175 per share, Buffett became a billionaire.
In 2008, he was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of approximately $62 billion, only dropping by a place to second a year later after donating billions of dollars to charity. Buffett is dedicated to philanthropy, having donated almost $32 billion so far and signing a promise with Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg they called the “Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge”; a promise to donate at least half of their wealth to charity, and invite others with great wealth to do the same.
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