While I was comparing top world billionaires 1991 with top world billionaires 2008, I found an interesting fact regarding these lists from money.cnn.com. In top world billionaires 1991, we can names: Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah from Brunei, Sam Moore Walton from Arkansas, Albert Reiichman from Canada, and Forrest Mars SR from America and also King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz from Saudi Arabia at the top five world billionaires.
Top Five becomes billionaires because they acquire wealth from their previous generation. That’s the pattern. And the most interesting is in top world billionaires’ 2008 list. There was new name: Warren Buffet from America, Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico, William Gates from America, Lakshmi Mittal from United Kingdom.
In 2008, there was a new pattern for top world billionaires, which inherited wealth doesn’t longer become dominating in top billionaires list. In 2008, the top gained wealth because its entrepreneur idea, self gained wealth. In France this was called as”Nouveau Riche”.
In the next top world billionaires list, we might see another nouveau riche since entrepreneur ideas now becoming keys of success. Larry page with Google, Mark Zuckerberg with facebook is one of the examples from next nouveau riche. What an interesting pattern. Ideas now become invaluable assets
