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Warren Buffett  Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha, Nebraska, during the Great Depression. The son of a stockbroker and congressman, Howard Buffett, Warren displayed a prodigious talent for numbers and business from an extraordinarily young age. He filed his first tax return at age 13, claiming a bicycle as a business deduction for his newspaper delivery route. By 11, he had purchased his first stock (three shares of Cities Service Preferred) and learned a lifelong lesson about patience after selling too early. He read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor” at 19, which became the philosophical bedrock of his investment career. After being rejected from Harvard Business School, he attended Columbia Business School to study directly under Graham.Warren Buffett Building Berkshire Hathaway: From Textile Mill to Conglomerate Buffett’s journey with the company that would make him famous began unpromisingly. In 1962, he started buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway,…

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Gautam Shantilal Adani was born on June 24, 1962, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, into a middle-class textile family. The seventh child of Shantilal and Shanti Adani, he displayed an entrepreneurial spirit early on, dropping out of college at 16 to seek his fortune in Mumbai. He started as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers before launching his own diamond brokerage at 20. This initial foray into trading revealed his keen instinct for commodities and market timing—a skill that would define his career. Returning to Ahmedabad in the early 1980s to help his brother’s plastics business, he laid the foundation for what would become one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing conglomerates. The Adani Group: A Vertical Empire Founded in 1988, the Adani Group has evolved from a modest commodity trading firm into a diversified infrastructure mega-conglomerate with a “pit-to-plug” strategy—controlling every link in the supply chain from resource extraction to delivery to end…

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Mark Zuckerberg ,Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, to a dentist father and psychiatrist mother. His fascination with computers began early; by age 12, he had created “ZuckNet,” a messaging program for his family’s home. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and later Harvard University, where his programming skills and entrepreneurial vision would soon change global communication forever. The Facebook Phenomenon In February 2004, from his Harvard dorm room, Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook” with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. The platform expanded rapidly to other universities, then to the general public, becoming “Facebook” in 2005. Its growth was unprecedented, reaching one billion users by 2012. In 2012, Facebook conducted one of the largest tech IPOs in history, valuing the company at $104 billion.Mark Zuckerberg Business Empire and Corporate Structure Meta Platforms, Inc. (Formerly Facebook, Inc.) Facebook rebranded to…

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