The First Job of the Revolutionaries

posted more than an year ago | category : Inspirational

The founders of big companies are always looked upon as the trend-setters, and have a huge fan following. But what is interesting is that many of them had a very modest start. So here we bring to you six such billionaires who started off with petty jobs, but made it big in the big mean world of business.

Warren Buffet: From Newspaper Delivery to Forbes
Warren Buffet, the business magnate the third wealthiest person in the world 2011, was just 13 when he started working first. He used to go door to sell chewing gum, cola, or weekly magazines in order to earn and save money. He ran a newspaper delivery business when he was in his teens and had already started working on his multi-billion empire since then. Always on the lookout for opportunities, he started painting pin-ball machines and had about $10,000 from his business ventures (selling golfballs and stamps, and detailing cars) by the time he graduated from college. He made his friend purchase a used pinball machine which was placed in barber shops, and within months they owned several machines in different barber shops, and today he is one of the most successful investors worldwide.

Michael Dell: From Dishwasher to Computers
Michael Dell is the founder of Dell and the 44th richest person in the world. Though he was born in a well-to-do family, he applied for the high school equivalency exam at the age of eight. He started working as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant, and used his earnings to invest in stocks. While in college, he started selling subscriptions for newspaper, and used the data to identify an untapped customer base. He started selling computer disk drives from his dorm room and later started purchasing unsold IBM PCs to add additional memory and disk drives to them, thereby selling them at around 15 percent less than the retail price. His data research and his curiosity (he apparently disassembled his first computer to see how it works) made him start a very successful business venture in the field of computers.