How (Some) Billionaires Become Billionaires

Found this little article and thought it might be worth looking at for fun. This is how Buffett started. I will add people to the list as I find them…

The No. 1 job billionaires and multimillionaires held before they got filthy rich

There are billions of reasons to do this job.

Many of today’s self-made billionaires and multimillionaires held a sales job, or jobs, when they were younger — a fact they consider crucial to their current success, according to research conducted by sociologist and historian Rainer Zitelmann and published in his recent book “The Wealth Elite.”

Zitelmann interviewed 45 individuals, whose net worth ranged, on the low end, from 10 million to 30 million euros (roughly $11.3 to $34 million) to, on the upper end, several billion euros (more than $3 billion), and whose wealth was either entirely self-made or built on inheritances that were later multiplied. More…