Unglamorous First Jobs of Billionaires Like Jeff Bezos And Elon Musk

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.
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The world's richest men and women owns multiple mansions, drive around in luxury cars and fly private jets .

Buying an entire island or investing in flying cars is not toilsome for these billionaires since some of them own multi-billion dollar companies.

Once upon a time before joining one of the world's most expensive club, billionaires like Oprah Winfrey were mere store clerk. Some had to deliver newspaper , flipped burgers, stocked shelves just to get by.

From humble beginnings these billionaires built their wealth from the ground up.

1.Jeff Bezos

Amazons' founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the world's richest man worth approximately $113 B.

From working to build drones landing pads, a ten thousand years clock to now building  rockets he has  no doubt been relentless in his quest to breaking new grounds.

Way back in the 1980s , he was only a fry cook at a McDonalds' outlet (surprise, surprise).

2. John Anderson

Prolific Real Estate mogul John Anderson was born September 12 , 1917 in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the U S. He was worth approximately $2.4 B before his death in 2011.

He started out selling pop corn just to get by.

3. Oprah Winfrey

Before Oprah Winfrey had her mega daytime talk show ever before she was worth approximately $3 B, Oprah was a teenager working at the corner of a grocery store next to her father's barber shop in Nashville.

"I wasn't allowed to talk to the customers, and can you imagine for me?" she said, according to Oprah.com. "That was very, very, very hard."

But that changed when at age 16, she snagged a job that paid her to talk, according to Oprah.com. Radio station WVOL hired her to read the news on the air, which she loved and led to her first television gig.

4. Jan Koum

Whatsapp is an immensely-popular social media platform today, however it's co-founder and CEO Jan Koum was  anything but popular when he started out.

Emigrating from Ukraine to Mountain View, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. Jan Koum’s mother worked as a babysitter, and he swept the floor of a grocery store to help her pay the bills.I'm sure bills are no problems now as he's worth a whopping $9.8 B.

5. Elon Musk

Ever before building electric cars and spaceships. Elon Musk found innovative ways of meeting ends needs. From cleaning boiler rooms at lumber mills to converting his house into a night club. He made sure he had something doing.