Howard Mark Schultz’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Coming from a poor family, Schultz is the first member of his family to go to college. Right after graduation, he begun working for the Xerox Corporation as a sales person. Not long after, he was hired as the General Manager of Hammarplast, a Swedish drip coffee company. Later on, Schultz put up his own coffee shop and he named it “Il Giornale”. Two years after, he acquired the original Starbucks for only $3.8 million. He renamed Il Giornale to Starbucks. The company expanded aggressively across the United States.
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Imogene Powers Johnson’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Currently, her son Herbert Fisk Powers Johnson currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SC Johnsons and Co while her daughter Helen manages the Johnson Outdoors and Johnson Financial. All of her children attended her alma matter, the Cornell University. Currently, Imogene Powers Johnson serves as the Chairman and Founding Director of the Prairie School, a prep school dedicated for the children of factory workers of SC Johnson.
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Steve Wynn’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

A successful business magnate, Steve Wynn has an estimated net worth of $3 billion. Born Stephen Alan Weinberg on January 27, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut, his family had to change their name to Wynn when he was 4 years old to avoid anti-Jewish discrimination. He had his first business experience when he took over a string of East Coast bingo parlors upon the death of his father due to heart problems who left $350,000 in gambling debts. Within just a year, he managed to expand the company.
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Zhang Yin’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yin has an estimated net worth of $3.05 billion in 2013. She is best known as the founder and director of Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited.  The company specializes in purchasing scrap paper from the U.S. then import it to China. Eventually, the paper is made into cardboard in making boxes used to export goods. Today, Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited is considered as the biggest paper maker in China.
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