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Zuckerberg is Now World's Richest
2. Carlos Slim: Slim is a Mexican businessman and philanthropist, who is the Chairman and CEO of Telmex and American Movil. He studied Engineering from National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he was simultaneously teaching Algebra and Linear Programming. He learnt the basic business strategies from his father. At the age of 12 he bought shares in a Mexican bank. He started his business through real estate, construction and mining business. He has been the Vice President of the Mexican Stock Exchange and President of the Mexican Association of Brokerage Houses.
Consecutively for two years, i.e. 2010-2011, he is ranked as the richest person in the world. His corporate holdings are estimated of the value of $74 billion, as on 2011. He is ranked as the 23rd powerful people in the world by Forbes. Slim has been awarded the Entrepreneurial Merit Medal of Honor from Mexico's Chamber of Commerce. He was also awarded as the CEO of the year in 2003 by Latin Trade magazine.
