Michael Dell – Chairman and CEO, Dell

As a young boy Dell dismantled his first computer in his garage. He then started a computer company called PCs Limited while attending college. It became so successful that he dropped out of the college to operate it. In 2006, Dell donated $50 million to the University of Texas at Austin, which he attended but never graduated from. Ranked as the 41tst richest person in the world, he has a net worth of $15.9 billion.

Ingvar Kamprad – Founder IKEA

Kamprad is Swedish business magnate who founded IKEA, a retail company in 1943. He started doing business as a young boy when he used to sell matches to neighbours from his bicycle. He then expanded to sell fish, Christmas tree decorations, seeds, ballpoint pens and pencils. He founded IKEA at his Uncle Ernst's kitchen table. IKEA is an acronym for his name and Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd. According to Swedish business weekly Veckans Affärer, he is the richest person in the world. This report is based on the assumption that Kamprad owns the entire company. His actual net worth though is $ 6 billion.