First Jobs Of The World's Top Billionaires 

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25 April 2024

From Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg, this is what some of the world's richest people were doing before they became billionaires

Elon Musk's first job was doing physical work on his cousin's farm in Canada, where he shovelled grain bins and tended crops, per CNBC


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At the age of 13, Bill Gates worked as a computer programmer during his senior year of high school


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Warren Buffet started his career as a newspaper delivery boy for The Washington Post


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As a teenager, Jeff Bezos got his first job at a McDonald's restaurant, where he was a fry cook. His salary was less than $3 per hour, per Britannica


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Bernard Arnault kick-started his career by working at his father's real estate company


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After graduating from Harvard in 1977, Steve Ballmer took up a job at Procter & Gamble as an assistant product manager


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Larry Ellison's first job when he dropped out of university was at Ampex where his duties included database management and programming


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Larry Page co-founded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford PhD student Sergey Brin


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At the age of 19, Mark Zuckerberg began writing code for his new website "Thefacebook" in the year 2004


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Sergey Brin cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford PhD student Larry Page


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