Rags To Riches: Meet The Billionaires Who Started With Zero

BENGALURU: People are born with silver spoons ? and enjoy each and every luxury of life. But there are people who made it big, starting from scratch to now counting billions. The road to success is never easy but these people as compiled by Indiatv have got perfect rags to riches story to narrate. Let us have a brief look.

Kirk Kerkorian

He remains the MGM’s largest shareholder with a 19 percent stake. Kerkorian dropped out of school in eighth grade and was one of the first to bet on Las Vegas.

Kerkorian bought and sold MGM many times, may again buy his own studio. He is an ex-boxer and former World War II fighter pilot trainer as well.

Jan Koum, CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp

Jan Koum was born in Ukraine and later immigrated to California with his mother and lived in a government assisted apartment. With very poor financial conditions, his mother used to work hard to earn a living and did various jobs like baby-sitting to sweeping floors. They had to live on disability allowance when his mother was diagnosed with cancer. Jan started working as a security and infrastructure engineer in Yahoo for 9 years. In 2009 he founded WhatsApp, which now, is the world's biggest mobile messaging service, with 600+ million users. Now it’s bought by Facebook for ?

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