Presently, two of the richest persons in the world are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the owners of Google. Five years ago they were estimated to be worth $43 million. Since then, their business has constantly experienced growth. Google is now worth an estimated $155 billion with a stock purchase price surpassing the $500 mark. Google has continued to grow and succeed, while others in the competition find it hard time to survive. Their service has been disruptive by consistently changing for the better and creating new ways of directing more and more traffic to their site.
Jeffrey Bezos President, CEO and Chairman of Amazon. 15 years ago he has launched the most clicked site for selling of books. Currently he is worth $3.6 billion and is ranked number 70 on Forbes’ 2006 list of the world’s wealthiest people.
David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! presently estimated to be worth $3.12 billion dollars. Competitor sites like Google, AOL and MSN are giving Yahoo! a run for their money. This it manages to remain a valuable search engine on the Internet through joint ventures and other innovative concepts.
Pierry Omidyar and his wife Pam, creator of eBay, launched their site on Labor Day, September 1995 based on Pierry’s curiosity to see what would happen if all people had equal access for trading in a common venue. They are estimated to be worth over $10 billion. It was called Auction Web when it was launched. Since then it has grown with exceedingly high membership numbers in the market, in addition to great expansions within their corporation as well.
You don’t have to be a genius or even a college graduate to reach the levels of success these people have. You can make a 6 figure career either with 100K crossing or setting up your own business. Follow your dream, work hard and you never know – you could be the next Internet billionaire!
