From Elon Musk to Warren Buffett: First Jobs Of The World's 10 Richest People (2024)

At present, the world’s 10 richest people including Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and many more, cumulatively have more than $1,300 billion in wealth. While these ultra-rich people are indeed sitting with a lot of wealth currently, can you imagine how they all started their careers?

What were their first jobs? Let's unfold that for you.

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From Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, here's what the first jobs of the world's 10 richest people were.

1. Elon Musk

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$205 Billion

First job:At first, Musk worked at his cousin’s farm in Waldeck, Saskatchewan, tending to vegetables and shovelling grain bins.Then Musk learned to cut logs with a chainsaw in Vancouver, British Columbia, according to the book.

2. Jeff Bezos

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$167 Billion

First job:At the age of 16, Bezos got a summer jobat McDonald's frying burgers in 1980.

3. Bernard Arnault

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$163 Billion

First job:In 1971, Arnault kick-started his career by working athis father's real estate company.

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4. Bill Gates

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$130 Billion

First job: Bill Gates worked as a computer programmer for TRW during his senior year in high school at the age of 15.

5. Steve Ballmer

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$127 Billion

First job: After graduating from Harvard in 1977, Steve Ballmer took up a job at Procter & Gamble asan assistant product manager.

6. Larry Ellison

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$126 Billion

First job:Larry Ellison’s first job when he dropped out of university was at Ampex where his duties included database management and programming.

7. Larry Page

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$119 Billion

First job: Larry Page cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford PhD student Sergey Brin.

8. Mark Zuckerberg

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$119 Billion

First job: At the age of 19,Zuckerberg began writing code for his new website"Thefacebook" in the year 2004.

9. Warren Buffett

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$117 Billion

First job:At the age of just 13, Warren Buffett took up hisfirst job ofdelivering newspapersin Washington D.C.

10. Sergey Brin

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$113 Billion

First job: Sergey Brin cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford PhD student Larry Page.

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