20 10 Forbes Global Rich List was released in new york on June 5438+00. Mexican telecom tycoon carlos slim helu became the richest man in the world, while Bill Gates fell from the top to the second.
Born in Mexico City, Elu's father was a hotel owner and later made a fortune by investing in real estate. Under his father's example, Elu showed a keen interest in investment from an early age. 1 1 years old, he made the first investment in his life-buying government bonds.
After graduating from the National University of Mexico, Elu became a math teacher. In the 1980s, at his father's request, Elu left the teaching profession, took over his father's family business, and began to make great efforts in real estate projects. After entering the business, the technical expert from civil engineering showed a good business mind. Elu has a keen sense of business and is called "a bargain hunter". In addition to seizing the opportunity of the futures market, he also invested in a beer bottle production project, both of which earned him considerable profits. After marrying Somaya Jammeh, a well-known family, Elu founded Calso Industrial Group Company. Since then, Elu has been very enthusiastic about investment: he has acquired poorly managed companies or seriously undervalued stocks, and turned losses into profits through the adjustment and transformation of managers and mechanisms.
In the 1990s, Elu bought Telemex for $654.38+07.6 million, which laid the foundation for him to become a billionaire and won him the reputation of "Buffett, the Latin American stock god", and it took him only 654.38+06 years to reach the position of the third richest man on the Forbes rich list in 2006. In 20 10, Elu topped the Forbes rich list, and in 2010, Elu topped the Forbes rich list again with a value of 74 billion.