Russian entrepreneur and oligarch Vladimir Potanin has an estimated net worth of $21.1 billion in June 2019. He was reported to have acquired most of his fortune from loans-for-shares program which is run in Russia. As of 2012, Vladimir Potanin is named by Forbes as the world’s 46th richest man and fourth wealthiest man in Russia.
The widow of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., Laurene Powell Jobs has a net worth of $21.2 billion in June 2019. She inherited his wealth after he died in October 2011. A fortune that was largely placed into living trusts near the end of her husband’s life. She is co-founder and President of the national education nonprofit organization College Track. The organization helps underprivileged youth to college. In addition to her current position, Powell previously co-founded Terravera, a food company that specialized in organic and healthy food products. And before going to business school, she also spent three years at the business firm Goldman Sachs. Powell Jobs has turned her attention to non-profit entrepreneurship, focusing on education, women’s human rights, and the arts.
From the land that introduced the world various ‘gems’ such as Pizza, Ferrari and Sophia Loren it is almost expected that its richest individual made his fortune from something sumptuous such as chocolate specifically Nutella to the tune of $22.1 billion according to Bloomberg.
Azim Premji has an estimated net worth of $22.2 billion in June 2019. Head of tech titan Wipro started the Azim Premji Foundation in 2001, with an initial endowment of Wipro shares worth $125 million. Last year(2010), in keeping with his avowed intent of giving away a chunk of his fortune, he donated shares worth $2 billion, to a trust that will go to the foundation to help public schools in India’s heartland by training teachers and improving curriculum.