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Budget Projection News: ABD has prepared its budget for the development of its 5 video games, and the construction of the resort city named Inisfree.

Budget Projection

W.B.S. and Budget Projection:

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure; the schedule of tasking, month by month in this case
Format: Month: Scheduled Task, Expected Cost, Percentage of Whole Fund, Total Needed Funding Remaining, Machines On Site, Daylight during this Antarctic Month

Inisfree, in the 10 novels, is said to've been built by a supercomputer teleported to the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, which then grew metallic tentacles down and out into the mountain beneath it, the sections and tips of which formed a grid of nodes, each of which expanded into a building being 'grown' instead of built by humans. Thus, that supercomputer was called The Grid Mind, as it was the mind which regulated the grid that grew into Inisfree. Today, we are not quite to that level of technology, so here is what we will use instead:

*Next-step/next-gen' tech concept: Instead of just using China's advanced, industrial/large-scale 3D-printers, we take a supercomputer and use it to regulate a power-grid-like device which has one of those industrial 3D-printers at each of its nodes, thus constantly 3D-printing/growing/assembling the city at all places on its property at all times.

*To keep the following math and schedule simple and easy for anyone to understand, we used the ballpark-figure of spending $1,000,000,000 in 28-30 day intervals during peak operating (construction) time periods. Again, to keep things in perspective, it cost about $45,000,000,000 to get the barren coastal property that is now the Dubai metropolis to the state it is enjoying today, so $9B is an incredible deal.

November: ARRIVAL; waiting on best flight windows; ideal/safe weather for cargo aircraft to fly in

⦁ ~$10,000,000 (seat and fuel costs; reserving entire USAF MAC cargo plane(s) to haul the 3D-printers and crews)
⦁ .1% of whole (of $9.5B)
⦁ 9,490,000,000
⦁ 10 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 10 Tunnel-Boring Machines (TBMs) at this time

December: TRAVERSE; many flights of personnel, supplies, etc., to McMurdo Station, then convoys to the chosen site, staging (perhaps at Amundsen-Scott if it is closest), vehicle inspections, refueling, supply drops, setting up any necessary wind barriers or fencing to prevent gear/trash from blowing around, etc.

⦁ ~$10,000,000 (SnowCat and fuel costs; reserving entire USAF MAC cargo planes to haul the 3D-printers and crews whenever possible; driving the Overland Traverse only when flights not available)
⦁ .1% of whole
⦁ 9,480,000,000
⦁ 10 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 10 TBMs at this time

January: STAGING; site surveys (at various stand-alone peaks near the Trans-Antarctic ridge), core samples, outpost pods moved (and kept on Inisfree's property here-to-forth as mobile command centers instead of research facility modules), TBMs transported in (from where they were driven to and staged at Amundsen-Scott, or a few 3D-printers that constantly print more TBMs to line up in convoys burrowing ever down and outward?), grade set, earth-moving/pseudo-terraforming (hottest month for Antarctica, so best/easiest time to do the most surface work; spend the previous 2+ months getting everything flown in and driven across the Overland Traverse if need be, assuming a Grid Mind isn't teleported into place)

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (some personnel for the site surveys, etc., then all SURFACE-earthmoving, mostly automated, though it is of note that the 2-story Amundsen-Scott station cost $150,000,000 in 1992, and 1 TBM costs $45,000,000+, and 1 Bagger 293 (world's largest excavator/vehicle) costs $100,000,000 (*though 3D-printing TBMs and Bagger 293s can reduce their pricetags down to ~$9,000,000 and $20,000,000, respectively)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 8,480,000,000
⦁ 10 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 10 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when there is direct sunlight for all of each 24-hour period.

February: BIGGEST SUBTERRANEAN CAVITIES: MAIN HANGAR, PITS for the UBERS, & WALL; Inisfree's version of NORAD (specifically, the underground mountain base of the North American Aerospace Defense Command) carved out; for the Overhang Base & Main Hangar (materials/ore/crystals extracted here (coal, iron ore, sandstone for masonry, limestone for semi-reflective exteriors, dolerite for roads, and a wide variety of meteorites, for ex., are common in this region, with extensive oil and natural gas fields nearby; under the Ross Ice Shelf) are then used for 3D-printing of all the following structures/constructs, and even used it to help shape/pack/reinforce the city's Perimeter Wall), as well as (simultaneously) the Uber-VTOLs' cylindrical shafts and Uber-Repulsines' spherical cavities. (*The Bingham Canyon Mine (deepest on Earth) and the Hull Rust open pit mine (largest/widest on Earth) are comparable to Inisfree's Main Hangar's dimensions, and each took about one century to dig with primitive original (1st-gen') mining/hauling tech' and far fewer dedicated machines.) As these large underground chambers are being carved out, the extracted materials are taken up the deepening CP Hatches (four smaller cylindrical access shafts connecting the Main Hangar to the surface), then used to form the Perimeter Wall (incl. its internal features and the Perimeter Rings; traffic-channeling terrain features). To reinforce these growing cavities under Inisfree's property, materials such as Maraging Steel, Spectra Fiber, carbon/carbon composites, silicon-carbide, nickel-based super-alloys, Graphene, Carbyne, Geothite (from mollusk limpet teeth), aluminum oxynitride (transparent aluminum), spider-silk-based armor (which is vastly superior to both Kevlar and ceramic armor in terms of strength, weight, and flexibility), and Buckminsterfullerene (as well as Hempcrete above-ground) will be used so that the wide spans in these cavities will be easily negotiated without need of internal crossbeams or other supports. And, yes, we can 3D-print those things, and supports made out of those things, too.

⦁ ~$100,000,000 (all automated UNDERGROUND-earthmoving; mountain-heart to the surface staging areas for the highway system and largest structures such as the Wall and Auzdome (the main stadium of Inisfree))
⦁ 1% of whole
⦁ 8,380,000,000
⦁ 10 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time (all 10 printers printed 10 TBMs per day for 20 of the 30 days of this month; to expedite the digging process, then each spent the final 10 days of this month making 10 printers per day)
⦁ *This is when the Trans-Antarctic Mountains result in direct sunlight for most of each 24-hour period.

March: BIGGEST SUBT' BUILDINGS; Overhang Base, Uber-VTOLs, Uber-Repulsines, Underway (as opposed to a highway, low-way, or overpass), SCUBA City (just its pit, not yet flooded/filled), Sea-tanks (also not yet flooded; just their pits, like the 'bowl' for a swimming pool), and the inverted-dome subterranean-hemisphere barrier/wall built (TBMs are driven in a spiral downward, making a perfect circle directly beneath the Perimeter Rings' future location, with each pass being a successively slightly smaller circle; concentric circular routes down until they reach the Keel Hatch's future location, leaving not tunnels and large pipes/tubes behind them, but the material of the inverted-dome.)

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (the largest 3D-printing projects/constructs in history; cost of 1,000+ Winsun (China's) or Enrico Dini D-Shape (for printing on the Moon; extreme cold) 3D-printers, or the cost of several of them, each of which will be reserved for constantly 3D-printing copies of itself until Inisfree is built/needs no more, so we could make Inisfree's 5+ 3D-printing-based factories first, then have them constantly 3D-printing major building parts until they were retasked for their original/future roles of 3D-printing cars, clothes, airplanes, etc.)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 7,380,000,000
⦁ 1,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time (10 of these printers spent all 30 days of this month each making 10 other printers per day)
⦁ *This is when the Trans-Antarctic Mountains result in direct sunlight for half of each 24-hour period.

April: SMALLEST SUBT' BUILDINGS: SILOS GRID & SUBT' HALO MAPS; now that the biggest underground structures are built, we can dig out the silos network via the TBMs, while building the HAARP Facility (which doubles as aurora energy harvesting; a new type of powerplant). *With these silos emplaced by this month's end, we can sow all our crops (except the largest trees) in them and enjoy their harvest at least once this year (some plants can be harvested twice per growing season), and by the time the majority of our first visitors/patrons arrive to enjoy the restaurants, clubs, and other attractions; no need to ship in any food, come October, and we can then say we set the precedent of not only growing food on Antarctica, but growing it year-round; through the over-winter period and everything!

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (and filling up each silo with supplies/crops/etc. as they are made, ensuring none of them just sit there empty and doing nothing while the others ahead of them are formed and inspected/activated)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 6,380,000,000
⦁ 4,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time (again, 10 printers were reserved this whole month to make more printers)
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's one sunset per year occurs, followed by Pink Midnight.

May: BIGGEST SURFACE BUILDS; Auzdome (the biggest Outlands stadiums cost $1,000,000,000+ but we are using on-site materials, 3D-printing, etc., which cuts costs by as much as 80%, helping to balance out the fact that the Auzdome is many multiples larger than the largest Outlands stadiums), Sphinx, Cathedral, Sotu Perim Wall, Avalanche Wall, Epcot 2, Statue Park, etc. (*Simultaneously continue minor subterranean work; connecting the Uber Hangars to the subglacial riverways.), all this time the silos designed for surface regulation (temperature, water table, pH, etc.) are thawing the surface to a barefoot-walkable temperature range.

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (2nd largest 3D-printing projects/constructs in history)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 5,380,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's civil (& then nautical) twilight starts.

June: MEDIUM SURFACE BUILDINGS: SKYSCRAPERS & G.A.H.; form most of the highway system (decorate it with statues, fountains, & landscaping later) around the Sotu skyscrapers, as it is double/triple-decker there, and form the other skyscrapers such as the B.B.Spire, Palms, Tri-har-mechs, LHS, etc. Simple Math: If one (1) industrial-scale 3D-printer (the size of an average factory) can result in one 57-story building being printed in 19 days, and if you have more than 7,000 of them, you can 3D-print (all the skyscrapers of) Hong Kong, NYC, Tokyo, Chicago, Dubai, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Singapore, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Metro Manilla, Seoul, Chengdu, Bangkok, Jakarta, Busan, Kuala Lumpur, Panama City, Toronto, Nanjing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Houston, Istanbul, Melbourne, Osaka, Miami, Abu Dhabi, Moscow, Dalian, Sydney, Incheon, Doha, Mumbai, Wuhan, Beijing, Los Angeles, Delhi, San Francisco, Hangzhou, Dallas, Xiamen, Boston, Paris, Atlanta, London, Macau, Calgary, Qingdao, Taipei, Wuxi, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, Seattle, Kuwait City, Suzhou, Brisbane, Philadelphia, São Paulo, and every other city on Earth that has at least one skyscraper... all in less than one month. -- If you have a building that is 3/4 of a mile tall (~400 storeys), you could print it in less than one month if you had just 4 or 5 of this type of 3D-printer devoted to its construction. -- To put things in perspective, in terms of the astronomical savings this budget proposal and business plan will provide us, the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco is 61 floors, with a price tag of $1.1B due to the lingering use of obsolete construction methods. In our city, Inisfree, we can 3D-print tens of thousands of such skyscrapers, and far taller, much more impressive ones, for a budget of just 9 times the cost of that one tower. -- We also know that 1 much smaller (house-sized) 3D-printer (still industrial-scale, though, of course) can print 10 houses in one (1) day, so entire neighborhoods can be printed in less than one month by just one of this type of 3D-printer; again, imagine 7,000 of them working all at once! You can 3D-print all the neighborhoods (and all other buildings) in this entire city (or any city) in less than one month. Once a neighborhood or major building is complete, the 3D-printer on-site becomes part of its basement or parking garage, thus negating any need to have new parts (such as windows or pipes) ordered and shipped there. And, because of our universal use of biotecture, every major skyscraper is the equivalent of planting more than 1,000,000 trees. *By now, the surface of our Inisfree property is lukewarm, most ice melted, most water features (waterfalls, fountains, canals, etc.) nearly operating at capacity.

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (in 50 years, the USA spent ~$425,000,000,000 on its interstate/superhighway system)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 4,380,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's astronomical twilight starts.

July: ATMOSPHERIC BUILDINGS: CLOUD CITY; get the main artificial lunar & U.V. lighting construct airborne to counteract some of the Antarctic night/winter (make ongoing/overwinter surface construction easier/safer), as well as to test its observatory during this darkest month, while continuing work on the surface of Inisfree's property; residences (apartments, castles, and all other types) with the finishing touches (furnishings, core/skeleton staff, etc.)

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 for Cloud City; largest aircraft ever built (*Note: The I.S.S. cost $150,000,000,000.)
⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (we're making thousands of multi-million-dollar mansions, but 3D-printing ALL of them, cutting costs by up to 80%, so each $1,000,000, for ex., becomes closer to $200,000, and we can reduce that, too, by using materials we excavated in the previous months instead of ordering them and having them shipped/flown to us)
⦁ 21% of whole
⦁ 2,380,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's night occurs and is darkest, & aurora (for 3 years during each 11-year solar cycle) is brightest.

August: FLATEST/WIDEST SURFACE BUILDINGS: SPACEPORTS; fly in what we aren't yet making, such as specialty foods/equipment, etc. (and see the terminal gates' waterfalls!)

⦁ ~1,000,000,000 (the largest airports have cost ~1.25BILLION+ to build)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 1,380,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's astronomical twilight returns.

September: SMALLEST SURFACE BUILDINGS: CLUBS; entertainment portion of the project, attracting scientists from all 73 facilities around Antarctica's coast, as well as fun-lovers and thrill-seekers from around the world (even the Ibiza, KaZantip, Burning Man, Sensation, Electric Daisy Carnival, etc., crowds). *By now, all water features are operating at capacity, and the canals, moats, rivers, ponds, main lake, SCUBA quadrants, and Sea-tanks are all flooded/filled.

⦁ ~$100,000,000 (~2,000,000 per club, though Dante, for ex., will cost more than the others, so we'll gross-estimate ~1,000,000 per club, with the exception of Dante which will be ~51,000,000)
⦁ 1% of whole
⦁ 1,280,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's nautical (& then civil) twilight returns.

October: VARIOUS OTHER SURFACE BUILDINGS: MALL & RESTAURANTS; shopping portion of the project, attracting even more tourism. *By now, the food grown in the half-buried and subterranean greenhouses (biodomes and silos grid, not to mention what was planted and grown in all the troughs of all the buildings, and, later, on the rooftop gardens/farms) is ready for harvesting and use in our recipes, as well as in our Food Processing Facility, so we can start cooking with our own supply, and start stocking our Grocery Store (and even it will have grown some of its own food, such as the items for its salad bar).

⦁ ~$1,000,000,000 (Mall of America cost $650,000,000 in 1992)
⦁ 10.5% of whole
⦁ 280,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when Antarctica's one sunrise per year occurs, preceded by Pink Midnight.

November: SURFACE PLANTS; commercial farmland, rooftop biotecture, flora, and landscaping, as well as production of the POVs (Privately-Owned Vehicles) & municipal/government vehicles (such as the commercial repulsines of/for the two Spaceports *which can be 3D-printed in the chambers beneath those two Spaceports), and NWO MIL gear (such as the ST suits), while the Sentry Towers formed outside

⦁ ~$100,000,000 (shift to producing all our own foods, flying in only tourists/guests/contractors/employees/dignitaries)
⦁ 1% of whole
⦁ 180,000,000
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when the Trans-Antarctic Mountains result in direct sunlight for half of each 24-hour period.

December: TOURISM; warming up to warmest (next) month, great time for marathons, skiing, climbing, freefall, yachting, etc.

⦁ ~$180,000,000 (cost of operating tourist transportation to/from/across our city, while the ROI starts to come in!)
⦁ 1% of whole
⦁ (*Once we spend the last 180million in this 9.5B budget, tourism should be set for the foreseeable future.)
⦁ 7,010 industrial-scale 3D-printers, and 2,010 TBMs at this time
⦁ *This is when the Trans-Antarctic Mountains result in direct sunlight for most of each 24-hour period.

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The cost to make each of the 5 video games (based on most comparable games already made):

The Arena of Doom: ~$10M (the cost to market Mortal Kombat II in 1994)
State of the Union: ~$10-50M (the average cost to develop a Call of Duty game, with Halo being ~$20M, and ~$265M for GTA V)
Inisfree MMORPG: ~$63-200M (the cost to develop World of Warcraft, Rift, or Star Wars: The Old Republic, with Second Life being only ~$5M)
The Voyages of Acquisition: ~$70M (estimated cost of the development of Eve Online, with Stargate Worlds being ~$25M)
Aorlie: ~$15M (the cost to develop Mass Effect, with Mass Effect 3 being ~$40M)

*And maybe we'll make these games at WMKM Studios the moment it is built in Inisfree!
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The cost to get out each of the 10 novels (which are already written and edited):

$7,000+ for a publisher / marketing team over 1 year

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Totals:
(10,000,000 x 2 = 20,000,000) + (100,000,000 x 4 = 400,000,000) + (1,000,000,000 x 9 = 9,000,000,000) +
(game 1: 10,000,000) + (game 2: 50,000,000) + (game 3: 100,000,000) + (game 4: 70,000,000) + (game 5: 15,000,000) +
(novels: 7,000) =
9,420,000,000 to build the city in one year; ~$9.5B +
~$245,000,000 over that 1st year through the next 4; 5+ years of game development;
a ~$9.6B overall budget

And while we're on the topic of industrial-scale 3D-printing, let's keep a few more things in mind:

⦁ NASA is developing the progenitor of the Star Trek 'replicator'; a device which can 3D-print food (so even if some of our crops fail at times, it won't result in shortages or rationing for our staff or guests).
⦁ There's nothing stopping us from using 3D-printing technology to 3D-print microscopic structures, such as DNA.
⦁ If every pod or bucket seat in all our service vehicles and ships doubles as a medium-sized 3D-printer, we could 3D-print an entire population (robotic or organic) in a matter of minutes, perhaps even seconds.
⦁ A Star Fleet (hundreds of advanced Spaceships for exploration and diplomacy) could be 3D-printed in less than one month.
⦁ All vehicles and ships, and even personal suits (such as astronaut suits with miniature or microscopic 3D-printers) could print all their own repair and replacement parts, thus automatically, and virtually instantly, 'healing' themselves.
⦁ It is possible to use sounds to change the shape/form, position, and composition (such as molecular, atomic, and subatomic makeup) of things, so 3D-printing could be done not with hollow needles and fluids, but empty chambers and 'songs'. This technology, too, has been in development for decades, perhaps longer now. Will you be one of its next masters, and, thereby, one of our next and treasured staff members? We hope so. Come join us in this new (and entirely eco-friendly) technological revolution! We are 3D-printing our wildest dreams! Shall we 3D-print some of yours?

Five Positions We Are Looking to Staff Presently:

ABD's initial core staff will set the operational tempo and other precedents.

a seasoned literary agent to get the 10 novels in the Capital of Antarctica saga to the absolute best publisher on the planet (avg. sal. $100,000/yr.)
a marketing expert to lead an advertising campaign (online, radio, and TV) for those novels and the resort city project (avg. sal. $133,700/yr.)
a liaison for a world-class architecture firm with the latest C.A.D. software; to create a working 3D computer model of the entire Inisfree resort (which can be imported to a game engine once it is time to create the 5 video/computer games so that the process of getting them into beta form and then the market is expedited exponentially) (architect avg. sal. $100,000/yr., liaison avg. sal. $70,000/yr.)
a CFO or CPA to handle the books (CPA avg. sal. $60,000/yr., CFO: $156,000/yr.)
a Chief Operations Officer (avg. sal. $150,000/yr.)

So the initial monthly budget for the CEO (myself) + this staff of 5 people = ~$60,000
There will also be the one-time fee for 1 professional corporate logo design; proofs and product cost ~$150-300.

Partnering with the Most Successful Companies and Individuals:

The 62 biggest corporations on Earth (our possible future partners) by revenue (all which earn >$100B/yr.) are:

Walmart: Bentonville, Arkansas -- Doug McMillon, CEO
Sinopec: Beijing -- Wang Tianpu
CNPC: Beijing -- Zhou Jiping
Royal Dutch Shell: Netherlands The Hague; London -- Ben van Beurden
ExxonMobil: Irving, Texas -- Rex W. Tillerson
Saudi Aramco: Saudi Arabia, Dhahran -- Khalid A. Al-Falih
BP: London -- Bob Dudley
SGCC: Beijing -- Liu Zhenya
Samsung: South Korea, Suwon -- Lee Kun-hee
Vitol: Netherlands, Rotterdam; Switzerland, Geneva -- Ian Taylor
Toyota: Japan, Toyota, Aichi -- Akio Toyoda
Glencore: Switzerland, Baar -- Ivan Glasenberg
Volkswagen: Germany, Wolfsburg -- Martin Winterkorn
Total: France, Courbevoie -- Patrick Pouyanne (fr)
Chevron: San Ramon, California -- John Watson
Berkshire Hathaway: Omaha, Nebraska -- Warren Buffett
Apple Inc.: Cupertino, California -- Tim Cook
China Railway: Beijing -- Sheng Guangzu
Phillips 66: Houston -- Greg Garland
Gazprom: Moscow -- Alexei Miller
E·ON: Düsseldorf -- Johannes Teyssen
Daimler: Stuttgart -- Dieter Zetsche
General Motors: Detroit -- Mary Barra
Allianz: Munich -- Oliver Bäte
Japan Post Holdings: Tokyo -- Jiro Saito
Ford: Dearborn, Michigan -- Mark Fields
General Electric: Fairfield, Connecticut -- Jeffrey Immelt
Eni: Rome -- Paolo Scaroni
Rosneft: Moscow -- Igor Sechin
Petrobras: Rio de Janeiro -- Aldemir Bendine
Lukoil: Moscow -- Vagit Alekperov
Kuwait Petroleum: Kuwait City -- Nizar Al-Adsani
Valero Energy: San Antonio -- William R. Klesse
McKesson: San Francisco -- John Hammergren
Cargill: Wayzata, Minnesota -- Dave MacLennan
PDVSA: Venezuela, Caracas -- Rafael Ramírez
Trafigura: Switzerland, Lucerne -- Claude Dauphin
Foxconn: Taiwan, Tucheng -- Terry Gou
AT&T: Dallas -- Randall L. Stephenson
CVS Health: Woonsocket, Rhode Island -- Larry Merlo
Pemex: Mexico City -- Emilio Lozoya Austin
United Health: Minnetonka, Minnesota -- Stephen Hemsley
AXA: Paris -- Henri de Castries
JX Holdings: Tokyo -- Isao Matsushita
Verizon: New York City -- Lowell McAdam
Engie: Paris -- Gérard Mestrallet
Koch Industries: Wichita, Kansas -- Charles Koch
Honda: Tokyo -- Takanobu Ito
Generali: Italy, Trieste -- Sergio Balbinot; Giovanni Perissinotto
NTT: Tokyo -- Hiroo Unoura
SK Group: South Korea, Seoul -- Choi Tae-Won
Enel: Rome -- Francesco Starace
Hewlett-Packard: Palo Alto, California -- Meg Whitman
Tesco: Cheshunt, Hertfordshire -- Dave Lewis
Costco: Issaquah, Washington -- W. Craig Jelinek
FCA: Italy, Turin -- Sergio Marchionne
NIOC: Tehran -- Roknoddin Javadi
Statoil: Norway, Stavanger -- Eldar Sætre
BASF: Germany, Ludwigshafen -- Kurt Bock
Siemens: Munich -- Josef Käser
Carrefour: France, Levallois-Perret -- Georges Plassat
Nestlé: Switzerland, Vevey -- Paul Bulcke

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Did you know there are more than 60 companies in the world with revenues in excess of $100 billion? It’s a staggering figure, several times the GDP of many small countries. In fact, the top twenty biggest organisations gross more than $5 trillion dollars each year- an amount large enough to let them purchase a medium-sized country or two if they wanted. (So building just one city would be like nothing to them; easily affordable, even negligible; barely a blip on their radar.)

Out of the 62 companies that have over a $100 billion in annual revenue, as many as 21 deal with oil and gas (extraction and/or processing), while the rest are a collection of retail giants, automobile manufacturers, utility producers, telecommunications service providers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. These companies together provide employment to millions in countries around the world. Many of them have a significant impact on local development and local politics as well, and in some cases this influence extends to global politics and development.

We’ve prepared a list of the top ten highest grossing companies in the world as of 2013 (by annual revenue). China, which is beginning to jostle with the U.S. for the top superpower position, is home to three of the companies that feature on the list.

We believe it’s very likely that more and more companies from the developing world will find homes on this list over the next few decades. Oil and gas, stores of which are getting slowly depleted, will get pricier in the coming few years, so don’t be surprised if the top grosser on the list next year is again an oil and gas corporation.

The Top 10 Corporate Earners:

10. Total S.A – Revenue: $234.3 Billion
Kicking off the top-ten list is Total, an oil and gas “supermajor” based near Paris, France. Total posted revenues of $234.3 billion this year. The company is involved in extracting and exploration of oil and gas, refining, transportation, marketing of petroleum based products, and trading. Its operations also include chemical manufacturing.
Total is led by Christophe de Margerie, who has been in the CEO position since 2007. Total has businesses all over the country and the rest of the world, and is currently in the process of entering the world of renewable and nuclear power production. It has acquired a 60% stake in SunPower, a photovoltaic company from the U.S.

9. Volkswagen – Revenue: $247.6 Billion
Volkswagen, a German automobile manufacturer, is the 9th highest grossing company in the world, with annual revenues of $247.6 billion. The company is based in Wolfsburg, Germany, and it is the third biggest maker of cars in the world (ranked second according to a recent study). Volkswagen spends the greatest amount of money of any automobile manufacturer on research and development.
Volkswagen has a worldwide presence, with manufacturing facilities and showrooms in countries like China, Mexico, South Africa, India and Brazil. Three cars manufactured by Volkswagen- the Beetle, Passat and Golf- all feature in the top 10 best selling cars of all time list (and they are still being made today).

8. Toyota Motor Corporation – Revenue: $265.7 Billion
Toyota Motor Corporation is based in Aichi, Japan. The company is the largest car maker in the world, and has produced more than 200 million vehicles so far. Toyota is the largest company in Japan, both in terms of market capitalization and by revenue. It was founded back in 1937, a separate entity from the already-existing Toyota Industries, with an express purpose of making automobiles.
Toyota is currently a part of the Toyota Group, which is a conglomerate of companies that are related to Toyota Industries Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota posted revenue figures of $265.7 billion last year.

7. State Grid Corporation of China – Revenue: $298.4 Billion
The State Grid Corporation of China is a power utility company run by the Chinese state. It is the largest power utility company in the world, and is responsible for distributing power in the entire country. The company posted revenues of $298.4 billion this year.
The State Grid Corporation of China emerged out of a need to restructure the country’s existing power distribution and transmission system. The company provides free power to millions of households in China, under the “Power for All” project, and it spends billions of dollars for upkeep of the program.

6. British Petroleum $388.3 billion
Yet another petroleum company in the top ten, British Petroleum has revenues of $388.3 billion per year. The company is based in London, England, and is one of the top employers in the country, with 83, 000 workers on its payroll. BP is operational in 80 countries, and it produces 3.3 million barrels of oil a day.
BP has origins stretching back as far as 1909, when it was called the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. It was rechristened “British Petroleum” in 1954. BP has been in the news in recent years thanks to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), which caused severe environmental damage. The cleanup has racked up a bill of $42 billion and counting.

5. China National Petroleum Corporation – Revenue: $408.6 Billion
CNPC interested in Chesapeake shale gas assets
The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is another petrochemical company, owned by the Chinese government and headquartered in Beijing. It posted revenues of $408.6 billion this year, making it the fifth highest grosser on our list.
CNPC is the parent company of the better known PetroChina, which is currently the second-largest company in the world by market capitalization. CNPC holds a staggering 3.7 billion barrels of oil reserves, from which it extracts a small amount each year. CNPC has holdings all over the world, in countries like Iraq, Syria, New Zealand, and Canada.

4. Sinopec – Revenue: $428.2 Billion
Sinopec is another petrochemical giant. Based in Beijing, China, the company has revenue of $428.2 billion per annum. It is one of the top three petroleum companies based in China, and is Asia’s largest oil refiner by amount processed per year.
Sinopec was established back in 2000 by the China Petrochemical Corporation Group. Today, less than a decade since it was formed, the company has a presence all over the world. It recently acquired a stake in Apache Corporations’ Egypt operations for $3.1 billion. The company is currently listed on the Hong Kong, Shanghai and New York stock exchanges.

3. ExxonMobil Corp – Revenue: $449.9 Billion
File photo of the Belgian headquarters of oil giant ExxonMobil in Machelen
ExxonMobil is an oil and gas company based in Irving, Texas, USA, and comes in third on the list with estimated revenues of $449.9 billion. The company has been around for a very long time- its parent company is Standard Oil, the company that was founded by John D. Rockefeller way back in 1870.
Currently, ExxonMobil has refineries in 21 countries the world over. It has a refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels, which makes it the largest oil refiner in the world, and produces approximately 3% of all the oil in the world. The largest shareholder in the company is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

2. Walmart Stores, Inc – Revenue: $469 Billion
WALMART CANADA - Driving innovation forward: Walmart Canada
It’s no surprise that the retail giant from America, Walmart, is second on the list of the highest grossing companies in the world. Walmart recorded a staggering $469 billion as revenue as of January 2013, and the company continues to make more and more profits each year.
Walmart runs department stores, retail outlets, and warehouse stores all over America and the world. The company, which is led by Doug McMillon, currently employs more than two million people, making it the largest private employer in the world. Walmart also holds the distinction of being the largest retailer in the world. The Waltons, who together own more than 50 percent of the company, are the richest (non-royal) family in the world, with a combined net worth of $150 billion.

1. Royal Dutch Shell – Revenue: $481.7 Billion
An oil and gas “supermajor,” Royal Dutch Shell is the highest grossing company in the world as of July 8, 2013, with estimated annual revenues of $481.7 billion. Royal Dutch Shell was born out of the merger of Royal Dutch Petroleum and UK Shell Transport & Trading, based in the Netherlands and the UK, respectively.
Royal Dutch Shell, with Peter Voser at the helm, is currently engaged in oil exploration, production, distribution, refining, marketing, power generation, the production of petrochemicals, and trading. The company is owned by a collection of investors and shareholders, with Capital Research Global Investors holding the largest stake in the company (about 10%).
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Other Major Organizations to Keep in Mind:

Those of the Rothschild family ($400B, with Sir Evelyn De Rothschild having $20B of that sum).
Cargill, Inc. (135-B, the largest privately-owned corporation in the United States, family has 14 billionaires)
Those of the Rockefeller family ($11B/+)

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Richest Individuals; Some of the 2,000 Known Billionaires:

Bill Gates; 80-B (billion), Microsoft
Carlos Slim & fam; 72, Telmex, América Móvil, Grupo Carso
Amancio Ortega; 64, Inditex Group
Warren Buffet; 67, Berkshire Hathaway
Larry Ellison; 54.3, Oracle Corporation
Charles Koch; 41.2, Koch Industries
David Koch; 40, Koch Industries (115-B through the company)
Sheldon Adelson; 38, Las Vegas Sands
Christy Walton & fam; 36.7, Wal-Mart
Jim Walton; 34.7, Wal-Mart
Mark Zuckerberg; 35.7, Facebook
Li Ka-shing; 31, Cheung Kong Holdings
Liliane Bettencourt & fam; 30, L'Oréal
Bernard Arnault; 29, LVMH Moët Hennessy • Louis Vuitton
Eike Batista; 30, EBX Group
Stefan Persson; 26, H&M
Karl Albrecht; 25.4, Aldi
Lakshmi Mittal; 31.1, Arcelor Mittal
Kushal Pal Singh; 30, DLF Group
Mukesh Ambani; 27, Reliance Industries
David Thomson; 22, Thomson Corporation
Ingvar Kamprad; 22, IKEA
Theo Albrecht; 18.8, Aldi Nord, Trader Joe's
Alisher Usmanov; 13.6
Vladimir Potanin; 13.5
Elon Musk; 13, SpaceX
Mikhail Prokhorov; 9
Richard Branson; 5.1, Virgin
Maria Imelda Marcos of the Philippines; 5+
Oleg Deripaska; Rusal; 4.2
Donald Trump; 4
Mark Cuban; 3
Markus Persson; 2.5, Minecraft

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Wealthiest World Leaders:

Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand: $30.0 billion (April 2011). Investments derived from the Bureau of the Crown Property.
Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei: $20.0 billion (April 2011). Profits from oil and gas industry.
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia: $18.0 billion (April 2011). Profits from oil industry.
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan President of the United Arab Emirates
Emir of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: $15.0 billion (April 2011). Investments from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates: $4.0+ billion.
Emir Sheikh of Dubai , United Arab Emirates: $4.5 billion (April 2011). Majority share of Dubai Holding and investments from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Hans Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein: $3.5 billion (April 2011). Holdings in the Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation.
Mohammed VI, King of Morocco: $2.5 billion (April 2011). Investments in SNI and Siger Holdings.
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Former Emir of Qatar: $2.4 billion (April 2011). From various enterprises.
Albert II, Prince of Monaco: $1.0 billion (April 2011). Various enterprises, including casinos.
Karim al-Hussayni, Aga Khan IV, France: $800 million (July 2010). From various enterprises.
Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman: $700 million (July 2010). From various enterprises.
Elizabeth II, Queen of the Commonwealth realms, United Kingdom: $450 million (April 2011). From property, jewellery and other assets.
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait: $350 million (July 2010). From various enterprises.
Beatrix, former Queen of the Netherlands: $200 million (April 2011). Holdings in Royal Dutch Shell.
Mswati III, King of Swaziland: $100 million (July 2010). From various enterprises.

As of 2015: 1,826 billionaires are publically known, their collective worth = 7.1 trillion dollars, but untold others are not required to report their wealth.
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The 500+ Richest People on Earth; 500 of the ~2,000 Billionaires:

Bill Gates: Net Worth: $79.2 B, Source of wealth: Microsoft
Carlos Slim Helu & family: Net Worth: $77.1 B, Source of wealth: telecom
Warren Buffett: Net Worth: $72.7 B, Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway
Amancio Ortega: Net Worth: $64.5 B, Source of wealth: Zara
Larry Ellison: Net Worth: $54.3 B, Source of wealth: Oracle
Charles Koch: Net Worth: $42.9 B, Source of wealth: diversified
David Koch: Net Worth: $42.9 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Christy Walton & family: Net Worth: $41.7 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Jim Walton: Net Worth: $40.6 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Liliane Bettencourt & family: Net Worth: $40.1 B, Source of wealth: L’Oreal
Alice Walton: Net Worth: $39.4 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
S. Robson Walton: Net Worth: $39.1 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Bernard Arnault & family: Net Worth: $37.2 B, Source of wealth: LVMH
Michael Bloomberg: Net Worth: $35.5 B, Source of wealth: Bloomberg LP
Jeff Bezos: Net Worth: $34.8 B, Source of wealth: Amazon.com
Mark Zuckerberg: Net Worth: $33.4 B, Source of wealth: Facebook
Li Ka-shing: Net Worth: $33.3 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Sheldon Adelson: Net Worth: $31.4 B, Source of wealth: casinos
Larry Page: Net Worth: $29.7 B, Source of wealth: Google
Sergey Brin: Net Worth: $29.2 B, Source of wealth: Google
Georg Schaeffler: Net Worth: $26.9 B, Source of wealth: ball bearings
Forrest Mars Jr: Net Worth: $26.6 B, Source of wealth: candy
Jacqueline Mars: Net Worth: $26.6 B, Source of wealth: candy
John Mars: Net Worth: $26.6 B, Source of wealth: candy
David Thomson & family: Net Worth: $25.5 B, Source of wealth: media
Jorge Paulo Lemann: Net Worth: $25 B, Source of wealth: beer
Lee Shau Kee: Net Worth: $24.8 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Stefan Persson: Net Worth: $24.5 B, Source of wealth: H&M
George Soros: Net Worth: $24.2 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Wang Jianlin: Net Worth: $24.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Carl Icahn: Net Worth: $23.5 B, Source of wealth: investments
Maria Franca Fissolo & family: Net Worth: $23.4 B, Source of wealth: Nutella, chocolates
Jack Ma: Net Worth: $22.7 B, Source of wealth: e-commerce
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud: Net Worth: $22.6 B, Source of wealth: investments
Steve Ballmer: Net Worth: $21.5 B, Source of wealth: Microsoft
Phil Knight: Net Worth: $21.5 B, Source of wealth: Nike
Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.: Net Worth: $21.3 B, Source of wealth: supermarkets
Li Hejun: Net Worth: $21.1 B, Source of wealth: solar power equipment
Mukesh Ambani: Net Worth: $21 B, Source of wealth: petrochemicals, oil & gas
Leonardo Del Vecchio: Net Worth: $20.4 B, Source of wealth: eyeglasses
Len Blavatnik: Net Worth: $20.2 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Tadashi Yanai & family: Net Worth: $20.2 B, Source of wealth: retail
Charles Ergen: Net Worth: $20.1 B, Source of wealth: Dish Network
Dilip Shanghvi: Net Worth: $20 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Laurene Powell Jobs & family: Net Worth: $19.5 B, Source of wealth: Apple, Disney
Dieter Schwarz: Net Worth: $19.4 B, Source of wealth: retail
Michael Dell: Net Worth: $19.2 B, Source of wealth: Dell
Azim Premji: Net Worth: $19.1 B, Source of wealth: software
Theo Albrecht Jr & family: Net Worth: $19 B, Source of wealth: Aldi, Trader Joe’s
Michael Otto & family: Net Worth: $18.1 B, Source of wealth: retail, real estate
Paul Allen: Net Worth: $17.5 B, Source of wealth: Microsoft, investments
Joseph Safra: Net Worth: $17.3 B, Source of wealth: banking
Anne Cox Chambers: Net Worth: $17 B, Source of wealth: media
Susanne Klatten: Net Worth: $16.8 B, Source of wealth: BMW, pharmaceuticals
Pallonji Mistry: Net Worth: $16.3 B, Source of wealth: construction
Ma Huateng: Net Worth: $16.1 B, Source of wealth: internet media
Patrick Drahi: Net Worth: $16 B, Source of wealth: Telecom
Thomas & Raymond Kwok: Net Worth: $15.9 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Stefan Quandt: Net Worth: $15.6 B, Source of wealth: BMW
Ray Dalio: Net Worth: $15.4 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Vladimir Potanin: Net Worth: $15.4 B, Source of wealth: metals
Serge Dassault & family: Net Worth: $15.3 B, Source of wealth: aviation
Robin Li: Net Worth: $15.3 B, Source of wealth: internet search
Donald Bren: Net Worth: $15.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Francois Pinault & family: Net Worth: $14.9 B, Source of wealth: retail
Shiv Nadar: Net Worth: $14.8 B, Source of wealth: information technology
Aliko Dangote: Net Worth: $14.7 B, Source of wealth: cement, sugar, flour
Mikhail Fridman: Net Worth: $14.6 B, Source of wealth: oil, banking, telecom
Hinduja Brothers: Net Worth: $14.5 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Ronald Perelman: Net Worth: $14.5 B, Source of wealth: leveraged buyouts
Cheng Yu-tung: Net Worth: $14.4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Alisher Usmanov: Net Worth: $14.4 B, Source of wealth: steel & mining, telecom, investments
Henry Sy & family: Net Worth: $14.2 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Viktor Vekselberg: Net Worth: $14.2 B, Source of wealth: metals, energy
Masayoshi Son: Net Worth: $14.1 B, Source of wealth: internet, telecom
James Simons: Net Worth: $14 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
German Larrea Mota Velasco & family: Net Worth: $13.9 B, Source of wealth: mining
Rupert Murdoch & family: Net Worth: $13.9 B, Source of wealth: media
Johanna Quandt: Net Worth: $13.9 B, Source of wealth: BMW
David & Simon Reuben: Net Worth: $13.7 B, Source of wealth: investments, real estate
Dhanin Chearavanont: Net Worth: $13.6 B, Source of wealth: food
Iris Fontbona & family: Net Worth: $13.5 B, Source of wealth: mining
Lui Che Woo: Net Worth: $13.5 B, Source of wealth: casinos
Lakshmi Mittal: Net Worth: $13.5 B, Source of wealth: steel
Abigail Johnson: Net Worth: $13.4 B, Source of wealth: money management
Luis Carlos Sarmiento: Net Worth: $13.4 B, Source of wealth: banking
Lei Jun: Net Worth: $13.2 B, Source of wealth: smartphones
Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi: Net Worth: $13.2 B, Source of wealth: beverages
Alexey Mordashov: Net Worth: $13 B, Source of wealth: steel, investments
Marcel Herrmann Telles: Net Worth: $13 B, Source of wealth: beer
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family: Net Worth: $12.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Hans Rausing: Net Worth: $12.5 B, Source of wealth: packaging
Jack Taylor & family: Net Worth: $12.5 B, Source of wealth: Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Charles Butt & family: Net Worth: $12.3 B, Source of wealth: supermarkets
Gina Rinehart: Net Worth: $12.3 B, Source of wealth: mining
Vagit Alekperov: Net Worth: $12.2 B, Source of wealth: Lukoil
Harold Hamm: Net Worth: $12.2 B, Source of wealth: oil & gas
Patrick Soon-Shiong: Net Worth: $12.2 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Stefano Pessina: Net Worth: $12.1 B, Source of wealth: drugstores
Richard Kinder: Net Worth: $12 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Elon Musk: Net Worth: $12 B, Source of wealth: Tesla Motors
Stephen Schwarzman: Net Worth: $12 B, Source of wealth: investments
Klaus-Michael Kuehne: Net Worth: $11.9 B, Source of wealth: shipping
Philip Anschutz: Net Worth: $11.8 B, Source of wealth: investments
Andrew Beal: Net Worth: $11.7 B, Source of wealth: banks, real estate
Leonid Mikhelson: Net Worth: $11.7 B, Source of wealth: gas, chemicals
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken: Net Worth: $11.6 B, Source of wealth: Heineken
Vladimir Lisin: Net Worth: $11.6 B, Source of wealth: steel, transport
Steve Cohen: Net Worth: $11.4 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Robert Kuok: Net Worth: $11.3 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Lee Kun-Hee: Net Worth: $11.3 B, Source of wealth: electronics/insurance
Carlos Alberto Sicupira: Net Worth: $11.3 B, Source of wealth: beer
John Paulson: Net Worth: $11.2 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Joseph Lau: Net Worth: $10.9 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Thomas Peterffy: Net Worth: $10.9 B, Source of wealth: discount brokerage
Mohammed Al Amoudi: Net Worth: $10.8 B, Source of wealth: oil, diversified
Dietrich Mateschitz: Net Worth: $10.8 B, Source of wealth: Red Bull
Hank & Doug Meijer: Net Worth: $10.7 B, Source of wealth: supermarkets
Gennady Timchenko: Net Worth: $10.7 B, Source of wealth: oil & gas
John Fredriksen: Net Worth: $10.5 B, Source of wealth: shipping
Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family: Net Worth: $10.4 B, Source of wealth: mining
Massimiliana Landini Aleotti & family: Net Worth: $10.4 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
David Tepper: Net Worth: $10.4 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Zong Qinghou: Net Worth: $10.3 B, Source of wealth: beverages
Pierre Castel & family: Net Worth: $9.9 B, Source of wealth: wine
He Xiangjian: Net Worth: $9.9 B, Source of wealth: home appliances
Mikhail Prokhorov: Net Worth: $9.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Wang Wenyin: Net Worth: $9.9 B, Source of wealth: mining, copper products
Ananda Krishnan: Net Worth: $9.7 B, Source of wealth: telecom
Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen: Net Worth: $9.7 B, Source of wealth: Lego
Robert & Philip Ng: Net Worth: $9.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Galen Weston & family: Net Worth: $9.6 B, Source of wealth: retail
German Khan: Net Worth: $9.5 B, Source of wealth: banking, telecom, retail
Alain Wertheimer: Net Worth: $9.5 B, Source of wealth: Chanel
Gerard Wertheimer: Net Worth: $9.5 B, Source of wealth: Chanel
Xavier Niel: Net Worth: $9.3 B, Source of wealth: internet, telecom
Roman Abramovich: Net Worth: $9.1 B, Source of wealth: steel, investments
Leonard Lauder: Net Worth: $9.1 B, Source of wealth: Estee Lauder
Andrey Melnichenko: Net Worth: $9.1 B, Source of wealth: coal, fertilizers
Hasso Plattner & family: Net Worth: $9.1 B, Source of wealth: software
Eric Schmidt: Net Worth: $9.1 B, Source of wealth: Google
Kumar Birla: Net Worth: $9 B, Source of wealth: commodities
R. Budi Hartono: Net Worth: $9 B, Source of wealth: banking, tobacco
George Kaiser: Net Worth: $9 B, Source of wealth: oil & gas, banking
John Menard Jr: Net Worth: $9 B, Source of wealth: retail
Samuel Newhouse Jr: Net Worth: $9 B, Source of wealth: media
Tsai Eng-Meng: Net Worth: $8.9 B, Source of wealth: food, beverages
Wei Jianjun & family: Net Worth: $8.9 B, Source of wealth: automobiles
Ernesto Bertarelli: Net Worth: $8.8 B, Source of wealth: biotech, investments
Carrie Perrodo & family: Net Worth: $8.8 B, Source of wealth: Inherited
Michael Hartono: Net Worth: $8.7 B, Source of wealth: tobacco, banking
Hiroshi Mikitani: Net Worth: $8.7 B, Source of wealth: online retailing
Pan Sutong: Net Worth: $8.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Klaus Tschira & family: Net Worth: $8.6 B, Source of wealth: software
Peter Woo: Net Worth: $8.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Jim Kennedy: Net Worth: $8.5 B, Source of wealth: media
Eyal Ofer: Net Worth: $8.5 B, Source of wealth: real estate, shipping
Blair Parry-Okeden: Net Worth: $8.5 B, Source of wealth: media
Dmitry Rybolovlev: Net Worth: $8.5 B, Source of wealth: fertilizer
Petr Kellner: Net Worth: $8.4 B, Source of wealth: banking, insurance
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus: Net Worth: $8.4 B, Source of wealth: commodities
Sergei Galitsky: Net Worth: $8.3 B, Source of wealth: retail
John Malone: Net Worth: $8.3 B, Source of wealth: cable television
Donald Newhouse: Net Worth: $8.3 B, Source of wealth: media
Joao Roberto Marinho: Net Worth: $8.2 B, Source of wealth: media
Jose Roberto Marinho: Net Worth: $8.2 B, Source of wealth: media
Roberto Irineu Marinho: Net Worth: $8.2 B, Source of wealth: media
Pierre Omidyar: Net Worth: $8 B, Source of wealth: Ebay
Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family: Net Worth: $8 B, Source of wealth: retail, media
Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte: Net Worth: $7.9 B, Source of wealth: shipping
Dustin Moskovitz: Net Worth: $7.9 B, Source of wealth: Facebook
August von Finck: Net Worth: $7.7 B, Source of wealth: investments
Leslie Wexner: Net Worth: $7.7 B, Source of wealth: retail
Giorgio Armani: Net Worth: $7.6 B, Source of wealth: fashion
Thomas Frist Jr & family: Net Worth: $7.6 B, Source of wealth: health care
Takemitsu Takizaki: Net Worth: $7.6 B, Source of wealth: sensors
James Goodnight: Net Worth: $7.5 B, Source of wealth: software
Jim Pattison: Net Worth: $7.5 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Silvio Berlusconi & family: Net Worth: $7.4 B, Source of wealth: media
David Duffield: Net Worth: $7.4 B, Source of wealth: business software
Edward Johnson III: Net Worth: $7.4 B, Source of wealth: money management
Liu Qiangdong: Net Worth: $7.4 B, Source of wealth: e-commerce
Johann Rupert & family: Net Worth: $7.4 B, Source of wealth: luxury goods
Alexei Kuzmichev: Net Worth: $7.3 B, Source of wealth: banking, telecom, retail
Eli Broad: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: investments
Charles Cadogan & family: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Dietmar Hopp & family: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: software
Uday Kotak: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: banking
Jay Y. Lee: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: electronics/tourism
Suh Kyung-Bae: Net Worth: $7.2 B, Source of wealth: cosmetics
Micky Arison: Net Worth: $7.1 B, Source of wealth: Carnival Cruises
Emmanuel Besnier: Net Worth: $7.1 B, Source of wealth: cheese
Walter Kwok: Net Worth: $7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Ralph Lauren: Net Worth: $7 B, Source of wealth: Ralph Lauren
David Geffen: Net Worth: $6.9 B, Source of wealth: entertainment
Graeme Hart: Net Worth: $6.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Gordon Moore: Net Worth: $6.9 B, Source of wealth: Intel
Wang Jing: Net Worth: $6.9 B, Source of wealth: telecom services
Goh Cheng Liang: Net Worth: $6.8 B, Source of wealth: paints
Denis O’Brien: Net Worth: $6.8 B, Source of wealth: telecom
Rinat Akhmetov: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: steel, coal
Vincent Bollore: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: investments
Jean-Claude Decaux & family: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: advertising
Eva Gonda de Rivera & family: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: beverages
Nicky Oppenheimer & family: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: diamonds
Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: ball bearings
Reinhold Wuerth & family: Net Worth: $6.7 B, Source of wealth: fasteners
Gautam Adani: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: commodities, infrastructure
William Ding: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: online games
Johann Graf: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: gambling
Charles Johnson: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: money management
Jan Koum: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: WhatsApp
Liu Yongxing: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: agribusiness
Sunil Mittal & family: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: telecom
Cyrus Poonawalla: Net Worth: $6.6 B, Source of wealth: vaccines
Carl Cook: Net Worth: $6.5 B, Source of wealth: medical devices
Ken Griffin: Net Worth: $6.5 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
James Irving: Net Worth: $6.5 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Stephen Ross: Net Worth: $6.5 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Abdulla bin Ahmad Al Ghurair & family: Net Worth: $6.4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Richard LeFrak & family: Net Worth: $6.4 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Melker Schorling: Net Worth: $6.4 B, Source of wealth: investments
Charles Schwab: Net Worth: $6.4 B, Source of wealth: discount brokerage
Heinz Hermann Thiele & family: Net Worth: $6.4 B, Source of wealth: brakes
Stanley Kroenke: Net Worth: $6.3 B, Source of wealth: sports, real estate
Sandra Ortega Mera & family: Net Worth: $6.3 B, Source of wealth: Zara
Sumner Redstone: Net Worth: $6.3 B, Source of wealth: Media
Nassef Sawiris: Net Worth: $6.3 B, Source of wealth: construction
Christoffel Wiese: Net Worth: $6.3 B, Source of wealth: retailing
Majid Al Futtaim: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate, retail
Dannine Avara: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Oleg Deripaska: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: aluminum, utilities
Scott Duncan: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Curt Engelhorn & family: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Milane Frantz: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Hui Ka Yan: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Rupert Johnson Jr: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: money management
Michael Kadoorie & family: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Kelcy Warren: Net Worth: $6.2 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Chan Laiwa & family: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Terry Gou: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: electronics
Willi & Isolde Liebherr & family: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: construction
Ira Rennert: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: investments
Randa Williams: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: pipelines
Hansjoerg Wyss: Net Worth: $6.1 B, Source of wealth: medical devices
David Green: Net Worth: $6 B, Source of wealth: retail
Augusto & Giorgio Perfetti: Net Worth: $6 B, Source of wealth: candy
Jin Sook & Do Won Chang: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: fashion retail
Bruce Halle: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: tires
Lu Zhiqiang: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Bruno Schroder & family: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: banking
Joseph Tsai: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: e-commerce
Dennis Washington: Net Worth: $5.9 B, Source of wealth: construction, mining
John Gokongwei Jr: Net Worth: $5.8 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Desh Bandhu Gupta: Net Worth: $5.8 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Pauline MacMillan Keinath: Net Worth: $5.8 B, Source of wealth: Cargill
Loretta Robinson & family: Net Worth: $5.8 B, Source of wealth: cable tv
Zhang Zhidong: Net Worth: $5.8 B, Source of wealth: internet media
Chung Mong-Koo: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: motor vehicles
Richard DeVos: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: Amway
Guo Guangchang: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Lin Yu-lin: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Andrei Skoch: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: steel
Juan-Miguel Villar Mir & family: Net Worth: $5.7 B, Source of wealth: construction
Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala & family: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: beer, investments
Ray Lee Hunt: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: oil, real estate
Ann Walton Kroenke: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Quek Leng Chan: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: banking, real estate
Keiichiro Takahara: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: diapers
Stef Wertheimer & family: Net Worth: $5.6 B, Source of wealth: tools
Arthur Irving: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: oil
Herbert Kohler Jr & family: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: plumbing fixtures
Anders Holch Povlsen: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: retail
Jorn Rausing: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: inherited
Thomas Schmidheiny: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: cement
Cho Yaw Wee: Net Worth: $5.5 B, Source of wealth: banking
Hui Wing Mau: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Joe Lewis: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: investments
Juan Roig: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: supermarkets
Robert Rowling: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: investments
Teh Hong Piow: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: banking
Harry Triguboff: Net Worth: $5.4 B, Source of wealth: property
Leon Black: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: private equity
Carlos and Alejandro Bulgheroni: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: oil and gas
Garrett Camp: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: car service
Leonid Fedun: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: Lukoil
Savitri Jindal & family: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: steel
Antonia Johnson: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Travis Kalanick: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: car service
Leonard Stern: Net Worth: $5.3 B, Source of wealth: real estate
David & Frederick Barclay: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: media, retail
Vivien Chen & family: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Bidzina Ivanishvili: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: investments
Micky Jagtiani: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: retail
Henry Kravis: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: private equity
James Packer: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: casinos
Enrique Razon Jr: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: ports
Odd Reitan: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: supermarkets
George Roberts: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: private equity
Paolo & Gianfelice Mario Rocca: Net Worth: $5.2 B, Source of wealth: pipe manufacturing
Pyotr Aven: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: banking, telecom
Ivan Glasenberg: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: mining
Philip & Cristina Green: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: retail
Lu Guanqiu: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Arnon Milchan: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: movie making
Dan Olsson: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Finn Rausing: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: inherited
Kirsten Rausing: Net Worth: $5.1 B, Source of wealth: packaging
Laurence Graff & family: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: diamond jewelry
Pansy Ho: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: casinos
Bertil Hult: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: education
Karl-Heinz Kipp: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: retail
Bruce Kovner: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
George Lucas: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: Star Wars
David Sun: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: computer hardware
John Tu: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: computer hardware
Yang Huiyan: Net Worth: $5 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Michael Ashley: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: sports retailing
James Dyson: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: vacuums
Albert Frere: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Jeffery Hildebrand: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: oil
Kwee brothers: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Liang Wengen: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: construction equipment
Frank Lowy: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: shopping malls
Frederik Paulsen: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: health care
Sam Zell: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: real estate, private equity
Daniel Ziff: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Dirk Ziff: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Robert Ziff: Net Worth: $4.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Isak Andic & family: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: clothing retail
Richard Branson: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: Virgin
Adi Godrej & family: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
Jamshyd Godrej & family: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
Michael & Marian Ilitch & family: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: pizza
Ted Lerner: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Idan Ofer: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: drilling, shipping
Emanuele (Lino) Saputo: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: cheese
Eduardo Saverin: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: Facebook
Andrew Tan: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Zhou Jianping: Net Worth: $4.8 B, Source of wealth: apparel
Phillip Frost: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Daniel Gilbert: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: Quicken Loans
Gong Hongjia & family: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: investments
Stein Erik Hagen & family: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: retail
Reid Hoffman: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: LinkedIn
Nancy Walton Laurie: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Liu Yonghao & family: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: agribusiness
Sri Prakash Lohia: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: polyester
Whitney MacMillan: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: Cargill
John A. Sobrato & family: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Tong Jinquan: Net Worth: $4.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Dona Bertarelli: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: biotech
Heinrich Deichmann & family: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: Footwear
Paul Tudor Jones II: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Randal Kirk: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Lee Shin Cheng: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: palm oil, real estate
Ludwig Merckle: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Sergei Popov: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: banking
Mark Shoen: Net Worth: $4.6 B, Source of wealth: U-Haul
Alexander Abramov: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: steel, mining
Pierre Bellon & family: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: food services
Kunio Busujima & family: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: gaming
Michael Herz: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: coffee
Wolfgang Herz: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: coffee
Elizabeth Holmes: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: blood testing
Shahid Khan: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: auto parts
Richard Li: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: telecoms
Shashi & Ravi Ruia: Net Worth: $4.5 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Americo Amorim: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: energy, investments
Shari Arison: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: Carnival Cruises
Abilio dos Santos Diniz: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: retail
Guenther Fielmann & family: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: optometry
Filaret Galchev: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: construction materials
Ian & Richard Livingstone: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Horst Paulmann & family: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: retail
Andres Santo Domingo: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: beer
Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: beer
Lucio Tan & family: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
George Ty & family: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: banking
Murat Ulker: Net Worth: $4.4 B, Source of wealth: food manufacturing
Jeronimo Arango & family: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: retail
Anthony Bamford & family: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: construction equipment
Charles Dolan & family: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: cable television
Tamara Gustavson & family: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: self storage
Zarakh Iliev: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Robert Kraft: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: New England Patriots
Luo Jye & family: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: tires
God Nisanov: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Karen Pritzker: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: hotels, investments
Trevor Rees-Jones: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: oil & gas
Chairul Tanjung: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Lottie Tham: Net Worth: $4.3 B, Source of wealth: H&M
Mike Adenuga: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: telcom, oil
Subhash Chandra: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: media
Gustaf Douglas: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: security
Han Chang-Woo & family: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: pachinko parlors
Jerry Jones: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: Dallas Cowboys
Kirk Kerkorian: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: casinos, investments
Lin Rong San: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Stewart and Lynda Resnick: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: agriculture, water
Wang Wei: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: package delivery service
Karl Wlaschek: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: retail
Aloys Wobben: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: wind turbines
Zhang Jindong: Net Worth: $4.2 B, Source of wealth: appliance retailer
Prince Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: dairy farms
Benu Gopal Bangur: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: cement
Patrizio Bertelli: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: luxury goods
David Consunji: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: construction
Frits Goldschmeding: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: temp agency
Martha Ingram & family: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: book distribution, transportation
Barry Lam: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: computers
John Morris: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: sporting goods retail
Miuccia Prada: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: Prada
Mark Scheinberg: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: online gambling
David Shaw: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Donald Trump: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: television, real estate
Zhang Shiping & family: Net Worth: $4.1 B, Source of wealth: aluminum products
Anil Ambani: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Samvel Karapetyan: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: development
Jan Kulczyk: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: telecom, oil, beer
Tom & Judy Love: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: retail & gas stations
Mohamed Mansour: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Mitchell Rales: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: manufacturing, investments
Wolfgang Reimann: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
Matthias Reimann-Andersen: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
Stefan Reimann-Andersen: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
Renate Reimann-Haas: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: consumer goods
J. Christopher Reyes: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: food distribution
Jude Reyes: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: food distribution
Edward Roski Jr: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Reinhold Schmieding: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: medical devices
Jerry Speyer: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Friede Springer: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: publishing
Sun Guangxin: Net Worth: $4 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Riley Bechtel: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: engineering, construction
Stephen Bechtel Jr: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: engineering, construction
Ralph Dommermuth: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: internet service provider
Bernard Ecclestone & family: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: Formula One
Nathan Kirsh: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: retail, real estate
Vikram Lal: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: motorcycles
Lars Larsen: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: retail
Ronald Lauder: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: Estee Lauder
George Lindemann & family: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: investments
Niels Peter Louis-Hansen: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: medical devices
Pankaj Patel: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Bernard (Barry) Sherman: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Shi Yuzhu: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: online games, investments
Jeffrey Skoll: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: Ebay
Frederick Smith: Net Worth: $3.9 B,, Source of wealth: FedEx
Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: Google
Wang Chuanfu: Net Worth: $3.9 B, Source of wealth: batteries, autos
Chung Eui-Sun: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: logistics
Israel Englander: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Dmitry Kamenshchik: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: airport
Bernard Marcus: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: Home Depot
Brijmohan Lall Munjal: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: motorcycles
Daniel Och: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Terrence Pegula: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: natural gas
Isaac Perlmutter: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: Marvel comics
Krit Ratanarak: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: media, real estate
Samuel Yin: Net Worth: $3.8 B, Source of wealth: diversified
Vanich Chaiyawan: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: insurance, beverages
Francis Choi: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Leon G. Cooperman: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: hedge funds
Antonio Del Valle Ruiz & family: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: chemicals
Francisco Ivens de Sa Dias Branco: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: food production
Traudl Engelhorn & family: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals/medical equipment
Ursula Engelhorn & family: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals/medical equipment
Huang Wei: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
James Jannard: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: sunglasses
Fredrik Lundberg: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate, investments
Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: Cargill
Akira Mori & family: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Theo Mueller: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: dairy
H. Ross Perot Sr: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: computer services, real estate
Steven Rales: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: manufacturing
John Sall: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: software
Lynn Schusterman: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: oil & gas, investments
Ronda Stryker: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: medical equipment
Steven Udvar-Hazy: Net Worth: $3.7 B, Source of wealth: aircraft leasing
Martin & Olivier Bouygues: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: construction, media
Gustavo Cisneros & family: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: media
Jim Davis & family: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: New Balance
Archie Aldis Emmerson: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: timberland, lumber mills
John Gandel: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: shopping malls
Diane Hendricks: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: roofing
Antti Herlin: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: elevators, escalators
Jeremy Jacobs Sr: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: sports concessions
Elizabeth Mohn & family: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: media
Igor Olenicoff: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Anthony Pratt: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: manufacturing
Qiu Guanghe & family: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: apparel retail
Walter Scott Jr & family: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: utilities, telecom
Sheldon Solow: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Steven Spielberg: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: Movies
Yitzhak Tshuva: Net Worth: $3.6 B, Source of wealth: real estate
Mohammed Al Issa: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: investments
Rahel Blocher: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: chemicals
Chey Tae-Won: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: computer services/telecoms
Edward DeBartolo Jr: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: shopping centers
Andrei Guriev: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: fertilizers
Ingvar Kamprad & family: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: Ikea
Iskander Makhmudov: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: mining, metals, machinery
Alain Merieux & family: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: pharmaceuticals
Pan Zhengmin & family: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: electronics
Michael Platt: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: hedge Fund
Viktor Rashnikov: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: steel
Haim Saban: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: TV network, investments
Beny Steinmetz: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: mining, diamonds, real estate
Martin Viessmann & family: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: heating equipment
Zhang Changhong: Net Worth: $3.5 B, Source of wealth: finance information service

There are 1,500 other billionaires out there. Help me get in touch with them!

Trillionaires:

($20-300 trillion lies in offshore accounts)

Jean-Jacques Augier, François Hollande's 2012 election campaign co-treasurer, launched a Caymans-based distributor in China with a 25% partner in a BVI company. Augier says his partner was Xi Shu, a Chinese businessman.
Mongolia's former finance minister; Bayartsogt Sangajav set up "Legend Plus Capital Ltd" with a Swiss bank account, while he served as finance minister of the impoverished state from 2008 to 2012.
The president of Azerbaijan and his family; a local construction magnate, Hassan Gozal controls entities set up in the names of President Ilham Aliyev's two daughters.
The wife of Russia's deputy prime minister; Olga Shuvalova's husband, businessman and politician Igor Shuvalov.
A senator's husband in Canada; lawyer Tony Merchant deposited more than $800,000 into an offshore trust.
A dictator's child in the Philippines; Maria Imelda Marcos Manotoc, a provincial governor, is the eldest daughter of former President Ferdinand Marcos.
Spain's wealthiest art collector, Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza; a former beauty queen and widow of a Thyssen steel billionaire, who uses offshore entities to buy pictures.
U.S.: Offshore clients include Denise Rich, ex-wife of oil trader Marc Rich. She put $144M into the Dry Trust, set up in the Cook Islands.
Individuals and companies linked to Russia’s Magnitsky Affair.
A corporate mogul who won billions of dollars in contracts amid Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s massive construction boom while he served as a director of offshore companies owned by the president’s daughters.
Indonesian billionaires with ties to the late dictator Suharto, who enriched a circle of elites during his decades in power.
Yohannes Riyadi; rumored to be Indonesian or a fake person invented to be the face of hidden money.
Those of the Bilderberg Group (a collective of the richest people of Europe, North America, and beyond)

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Allegedly the Richest Man of All:
Kamal Ashnawi; 5 trillion Euros in an HSBC bank account, saying that amount is minor compared to his total wealth

He is a descendent of the Emperor of China, tracing his bloodline through Indonesian, Chinese, Indian, Java, and Siam royalty, and it is from these royal families that he has inherited his riches.
He is in charge of 86.7% of the world’s wealth, which he purports is held in over 1,000 secret accounts across the globe.
His funds lie in the much debated Combined International Collateral Accounts of the Global Debt Facility, which is speculated to have been set up in 1875 by the world’s royal families to protect assets including gold and silver.

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The 25 Biggest Landowners in America:

John Malone (chairman of Liberty Media Corp.): 2.2 million acres (incl. 290,000-acre Bell Ranch in NM)
Ted Turner (Turner Broadcasting System, CNN, Nonami Plantation, etc.): 2.1 million acres
Archie Aldis 'Red' Emmerson: 1.84 million (CA's largest private landownder)
Brad Kelley: 1.5 million (sold a tobacco company in 2001 for $1BILLION, now uses his properties to breed rare species of animals; mention my zoo plans!)
Irving family (Canadian company, Irving Woodlands): 1.2 million
Singleton family: 1.11 million acres
King Ranch: 911,215
Pingree heirs (timber in Maine): 830,000
Reed family (Simpson Investment Company): 770,000
Stan Kroenke: 740,000
Ford family: 625,000
Lykes brothers' heirs: 615,000
Briscoe family: 560,000
W.T. Waggoner Estate: 535,000
D.M. O'Connon heirs: 500,000
Phillip Anschutz: 434,493 (Anschutz Entertainment Group is world's largest owner & operator of sports and entertainment venues; tell him of my 50 clubs designs!!)
Drummond family: 440,076
J.R. Simplot Heirs/Company (vast ag' complex in Idaho): 408,663
Robert Earl Holding: 400,000
Malone Mitchell III (oil tycoon & investor): 350,000
Hughes family (Dan A. Hughes Co.; oil & gas exploration): 325,000
Collins family: 312,188
Pat Broe: 310,000
Nunley Family (brothers) 301,500 acres
Flitner Family (David Flitner) 300,000 acres

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Also worth contacting:

Marcus Lemonis; 150M (The Profit TV show)

Updates & Revisions to this Budget Projection:

2016:

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City-building Costs of the 20th Versus 21st Centuries:

BCR: Benefit/Cost Ratio
BCRs are used to estimate the liklihood of a project being profitable, and to what extent; not at all, marginally, reasonably, satisfactorily, or substantially. Their formula is a simple one; the ratio is represented as:
B/C = (estimated sales x probability of success) / (estimated costs x probability of achieving cost target)

estimated sales x probability of success
estimated costs x probability of achieving cost target

$0 sales (b/c Inisfree is free) x 100% (if we use proven methods and few people)
$9,000,000,000 one-time cost x 100% (b/c Inisfree is self-sustaining immediately)

The trouble is that the BCR formula must be modified to indicate the accurate probable outcome of building a self-sustaining community such as Inisfree, for Inisfree's system of the exchange of goods and services is much more mature than any modern monetary one. In other words, the 'sales' factor must be replaced in the above BCR with something more like 'savings to the collective'; the amount of money, stress, and other items that will be saved, or reduced in a positive way, by all people participating in this project. When that factor is modified; by replacing it with a figure which applies to this type of system (as 'sales' do not need to apply anymore), the BCR for building Inisfree is quite the opposite; highly lucrative well before the typical 3-5 year ROI for most other business ventures.

If we keep the obsolete BCR formula, unless we push the 'climate-change doomsday' potential outcome as a selling point for this city's construction (cities such as Inisfree can help mitigate or even negate such a potential), or start charging people to experience the city once it has vacancies/attractions, the BCR of this project appears negative in the eyes of American/Human economics. However, Inisfree transcends climate change, economic collapses, and currency itself, thus its BCR is so positive that it isn't truly knowable or calculable, much like the result of trying to divide zero, or by zero, or infinity. This city solves so many problems so cleverly that a BCR actually shouldn't even be applied, or even occur to people to calculate in the first place. Realistically, how can you calculate a BCR with a one-time cost in the billions, and an immediate ROI of never needing money again? Infinity divided by nine is still infinity.

It has been proven hundreds of times in China that 3D-printing is a revolutionary breakthrough in construction technology; "This process saves between 30 and 60 percent of construction waste, and can decrease production times by between 50 and 70 percent, and labour costs by between 50 and 80 percent. In all, the villa" (a 5-story apartment bldg.) "costs around $161,000 to build." The Chinese have also repeatedly proven that a single 3D-printer can print 10 houses every day. Now, architect fees can take up to 10% of a budget, contractor fees up to 25% of a budget, the land must be acquired and improved, materials can easily cost $3M or more, labor will double that, machines add another quarter of a million, so on and so forth; expect to pay out tens of millions for a single apartment complex... unless you use 3D-printers instead, and build on land no one owns or taxes; where no lease or other contract will ever be required, and under conditions (keeping the 3D-printers) where you won't ever need to pay for repairs or replacement parts. That is how the apartment buildings can now be built for $161,000; a reduction in costs by 99%.

With that knowledge of this new construction technology, we can calculate that since 1) Dubai took ~15 years (and ~$45,000,000,000) to build up from nothing in a barren coastal desert wasteland on loose ground, 2) most houses take ~8 months to build, and 3) most skyscrapers take ~1 year, then:

⦁ 8 months x 28 days (a standard Inisfreean month; 13 months in a year) = 224 days to build 1 house without a 3D-printer
⦁ 1 day to build 10 houses with 3D-printer
⦁ a house, then, now takes less than 1/224th the time it used to take to build with people and shipments; >224x faster
⦁ a skyscraper takes ~1 year to build when not using 3D-printers
⦁ it now takes merely 19 days to 3D-print and build a skyscraper; 19/365 = 19x faster
⦁ Inisfree, comparable to Dubai (built up from nothing, in a desert (a cold one this time), difficult initial climate (temperature and wind considerations just like where Dubai was built), etc.), could take 1/19 to 1/224th of that last-century's 15-years construction period; Inisfree could be built in 24 to 288 days [(15 x 365) / either 224 or 19], and for under $22,500,000,000 to $9,000,000,000 (15 years down to 1-10 months, and $45-50B down by 50-80%)

And since 1 3D-printer can print 10 houses in 1 day, then:

⦁ 1 3D-printer can print 3,650 houses each year
⦁ 100 3D-printers can print 365,000 houses each year
⦁ and some of those 3D-printers can constantly be printing other 3D-printers, all of which get transported by 3D-printed cargo trucks and/or semis/18-wheelers out across the property (and fully functioning automobiles have been 3D-printed and driven out of their 3D-printers the moment they were completed), which then do mobile 3D-printing from their trucks, or stay on site (each neighborhood and other section of the Inisfreean property) to 3D-print until each area and attraction is fully built

So our new collective-investments/funding goal is $9-22.5B (billion), not $45B/+.

And for the handful of really tall skyscrapers which are part of Inisfree's design, such as those that are 1/2-mile tall (~260 stories), since a 57-story one was printed in 19 days:

⦁ [(19/57) x (X/260)] = (19 x 260)/57 = ~87 days (~3 months) to build each of Inisfree's tallest skyscrapers
⦁ and just 1-1.5 months to build the medium-sized ones
⦁ though, with several 3D-printers simultaneously dedicated to the construction of each of the taller skyscrapers, that time could be reduced back to mere weeks

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Achieving the R.O.I. Sooner:

So how do we get the Return On Investment (ROI) sooner than the standard startup/business's 3-5 year ROI expectancy?

First of all, we are building on property that no one owns, so we don't have to pay for it, and it is in a region where there is no government and are no taxes, so we don't have to pay property taxes, either. Then:

⦁ Teamwork sells!

Partnerships for the Mall; GoPro and dozens of other major/global brand names pay to sell their products in our mall, or to have their own stores there (GoPro alone has annual revenue of $1.4B, and a net worth of $3B)
Partnerships with major airlines, travel companies, and Spacelines (SpaceX, for ex., has $4B in contract revenue, and is valued at $12B, and American Airlines alone has annual earnings of $42.7B)

⦁ Comedy sells! Magazine sales from MKM; our equivalent of Mad, Heavy Metal, and Playboy (Playboy Enterprises earned $215M)

⦁ Adventure & magic sell! Book sales from the 10-novels saga, Capital of Antarctica; our equivalent of Harry Potter (which earned $7.7B, and the Harry Potter brand is now worth $15B)

⦁ Sex & violence sell! Sales from 5 major video games:

The Arena of Doom; our equivalent of Mortal Kombat / Super Smash Bros.; sparring (Super Smash Bros. sold 10s of millions of copies, earning nearly $100M, while MK's 1st movie earned $122M)
State of the Union; our equivalent of Grand Theft Auto, CoD:ModernWarfare, or Halo; FPS (CoD:MW earned $700M, GTA V earned $800M in its first day, and $2B total, and the Halo franchise earned $3B)
Inisfree MMORPG; our equivalent of WoW, The Sims, or Second Life; immersive interactive (Second Life earns $100M every year, The Sims earned $740M, Skyrim earned more than $450M in its first week and $1.4B total, and WoW earned more than $10B)
The Voyages of Acquisition; our equivalent of StarCraft or EVE Online; RTS (EVE Online annually earns $66M)
Aorlie; our equivalent of Mass Effect; Space-opera/drama (the Mass Effect series earned more than a quarter of a billion dollars)

⦁ Hospitality & entertainment sell! Inisfree has the population and visitors capacity of Tokyo and then some, so we will be inviting people from around the world to experience our attractions and breakthroughs on a regular basis, perhaps for all their favorite holidays each and every year.

Tourism from hosting the Olympics (international tourism generates $1.5T each year, so even though hosting the Olympic games for a year can cost $1-15B, it is worth it)
Sea-tanks; our equivalent of SeaWorld (the three SeaWorld parks collectively earn $1.5B each year)
Yachts, Mega-yachts, & Cruise Lines; Inisfree boasts many of these on its main lake, and partners with outside companies for additional travel options to and from Antarctica (Norwegian Cruise Line, for ex., has annual earnings of $3.3B)
regions representing each biome and culture of the world is our equivalent of Disney World (the Walt Disney Company, predominantly through its 11 parks, earns $45B each year, and has a net worth of $84B, with Disney World alone catering to 52M visitors per year)

⦁ Music sells! Inisfree is many music venues, concert & performance halls, stadiums, and other musical attractions, as well as its own band, VR2 (Coldplay earned $475M, The Beatles earned $600M while they were active, and U2 earned $838M, for ex.)

⦁ Clothing lines sell! Inisfree's auto-factories can produce countless articles of couture (such as the Kno brand/line) and normal clothes per year (the USA alone has annual apparel market earnings of a quarter of a billion dollars, with the global annual fashion industry earning $1.2B)

⦁ Automobiles sell! Inisfree's auto-factories can produce billions of vehicles per year (Ford alone has annual global earnings of $133B)

⦁ Social networking sells! Inisfree has its own version of Facebook. (Facebook has annual earnings of $12.5B)

⦁ Defense R+D sells! Inisfree's military is world-class, dwarfing even the U.S. superpower's (the USA alone has an annual defense budget of 3/5 of a trillion dollars)

⦁ Offering political asylum sells! Inisfree offers refuge from radical and hostile regimes. (for ex., expatriates from Iran alone invested $200B in Dubai during the early 2000s)

⦁ Adult films sell! WMKM makes educational and advanced-placement pornographic movies (globally, the porn industry earns $97B every year)

⦁ Being a producer in general sells! Inisfree is capable of producing a vast array of consumer goods and services. (For ex., the annual GDP of Dubai is nearly $83B, New York's is nearly $1.4T, and Tokyo's is nearly $2T.)

⦁ Escorting people sells! ICVs; our equivalent of Registered Companions, a.k.a. high-priced escorts (top escorts earn $1-40K per client per night, with some charging as much as $1-5K per hour, and since ICVs don't use money, 100% of their earnings go into Inisfree's treasury, not personal bank accounts *and there will be 100M+ ICVs and 3.5M+ human kajirae in Inisfree, with 4 sextillion more in its private solar system, so do the math)
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Now, let's just say we only earn 1% of those sales; minimal returns in each of those areas, since we will be doing work in each of them, and since we are cornering a few niche markets while competing in others, though in/from an unprecedented and geographically isolated place.

⦁ 1% of $1.4B = $14,000,000
⦁ 1% of $4B = $40,000,000
⦁ 1% of $42.7B = $427,000,000
⦁ 1% of $215M = $2,150,000
⦁ 1% of $7.7B = $77,000,000
⦁ 1% of $122M = $1,220,000
⦁ 1% of $3B = $30,000,000
⦁ 1% of $10B = $100,000,000
⦁ 1% of 66M = $660,000
⦁ 1% of 251M = $2,510,000
⦁ 1% of $1.5T = $15,000,000,000
⦁ 1% of $1.5B = $ 15,000,000
⦁ 1% of $3.3B = $33,000,000
⦁ 1% of $45B = $450,000,000
⦁ 1% of $838M = $8,380,000
⦁ 1% of $1.2B = $12,000,000
⦁ 1% of $133B = $1,330,000,000
⦁ 1% of $12.5B = $125,000,000
⦁ 1% of 3/5 of a trillion dollars = $6,000,000,000
⦁ 1% of $200B = $2,000,000,000
⦁ 1% of $97B = $970,000,000
⦁ 1% of $2T = $20,000,000,000
⦁ 1K/hr. x (1K kajirae + 1K ICVs) x 500K visitors = $1,000,000,000,000

We still come out with a total annual gross revenue approaching 2 TRILLION DOLLARS (the annual GDP of Tokyo), with our cost of doing business but a tiny fraction of that; a 5+ years-long budget of ~$9.6 billion; less than half of 1% of our worst-case scenario income.

Other things to keep in mind:
Avatar earned nearly $3B worldwide. The Avengers? $1.5B. The last Harry Potter film? $1.3B. Iron Man 3? $1.2B. LotR:RotK: $1.14B. Transformers: Dark of the Moon: $1.12B. The Dark Knight: $1B. Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMORPG) makes $165M each year. Lineage and TERA: Online both make over $100M annually, too. Lord of the Rings Online, EVE Online, Aion, Blade and Soul, Lineage 2, and RIFT are high-grossing MMORPGs of note, as well, so we can expect large and continuing profits in the billions range even with just one successful game, MMORPG or otherwise, and just one successful movie, series, or franchise.

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