10 Billionaires Who Mint Most Money In 2013

By siliconindia | Tuesday, 07 January 2014, 13:16 Hrs

8. Larry Page

Larry Page, the other co-founder of Google is an American Internet entrepreneur and a computer scientist. Until 2001 both Brin and Larry operated Google as co-president, after that they appointed Eric Schmidt as chairman & CEO. But in 2011 Larry Page joined back Google as a CEO replacing Schmidt. His career initiated along with Sergey Brin when they developed the search engine Google. In 2013, the significant rise in Google stocks earned Larry Page a net worth of $3 billion within 24 hours, which is unbelievable, and his total came up to $9.3 billion.

9. Lui Chee Woo

A philanthropist, chairman of K.Wah Group and the owner of Galaxy Entertainment Group, Lui Chee Woo has also made through the list of billionaires who gained maximum wealth last year. In 1950 he established his first company by buying construction equipment from Japan and reselling it in Southeast Asia, later his biggest casino project, the Galaxy Macau, on the Cotai Strip started in May 2011, with the second phase slated for completion in 2015. In 2013 Lui Chee Woo became the second richest man in the world due to his growing gambling revenue in Macau with a net worth of $8.3 billion.

10. Carl Ichan

Carl Ichan is an investor and a businessman in America alongside he is the largest shareholder of Ichan enterprises, which is more than $7 billion. Being a graduate from Princeton University he started his career as a stockbroker. He challenged Michael Dell for his eponymous computer company and lost, but forced Dell and Silver Lake Partners to up their bid to $24.9 billion, according to Forbes. After the bets on Netflix and Herbalife he had a profit of $500 million and made a total net worth of $7.2 billion in 2013.