Carlos Slim Helu Beats Bill Gates
UBER-nerd Bill Gates can no longer claim to the richest man in the world after Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu’s personal fortune was put at an estimated $67.8billion.
Mr Slim is the man behind Latin America’s mobile phone giant America Movil and according to the respected online publication Sentido Comun the company’s share price to June increased by a massive 27 per cent, thus giving Mr. Slim an $8.6billion lead on Microsoft king Gates.
Slim was recently placed at number two in the global wealth rankings behind Gates and one place above the US investor Warren Buffet. But the recent increase in America Movil’s share price has pushed the Mexican to the top of the pile.
Slim, in what is becoming the done thing for the uber-rich, recently pledged $100million to charity, in this case Bill Clinton’s anti-poverty campaign.
But feel free to hate him…
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July 11th, 2007 at 8:49 am
we takin over…one city at a time
his businesses are huge, this was going to happen at some point…
July 9th, 2007 at 10:52 am
He worked hard and studied business and how it works. An ohnest hard working man. Congratulations Carlos.
July 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
Bodyweightculture wishes them all - all the best.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Don’t know much about Carlos Slim Helu, … yeah… anyway congrtz..!
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Hi viva mexico, mexico rules jejejejeje
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Don’t know much about Carlos Slim Helu, but he seems far more likeable than Bill Gates. Because of Bill Gates, majority of the world’s PCs is saddled with bug-ridden operating systems, pbbbt. He has made it acceptable to ship buggy software, “never mind, we’ll patch it later”. So much for excellence.