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Michael Bloomberg
Net Worth: $18 billion
Profession: Bloomberg is the current mayor of New York City and owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company.
How He Got Rich: Bloomberg
Fast Facts: Bloomberg received an M.B.A from Harvard University, and he gave away around $1 billion to charities in the past five years. He’s divorced, has two kids, and he was a lifelong Democrat before he decided to run as a Republican during his 2001 election.
Mar 12, 2010 8:31 PM
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We all know by now that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at the top of his game. He has succeeded in passing fellow tech gurus Larry Page and Sergey Brin – the founders of Google – on the Forbes list of America’s Richest, but now the 27-year-old has also topped Fortune’s “40 Under 40”...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is rich, that is of no doubt, but the young tech billionaire – just after the details of his $100 million donation to Newark public schools were released – has now edged out Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page when it comes to net worth for the fir...
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