4. Carl Berg
Carl Berg is the billionaire CEO of Mission West Properties. But, he didn’t have it easy when he was growing up. His father passed away when Carl was just 10 years old, leaving his mom to take care of him on her own. He worked two jobs to pay his way through college, including one at a hotel, where he hoped he would meet someone that would give him a job in investment banking.
Luckily for him, this actually worked and he landed a job with a mortgage company. Can you imagine if that plan worked for us all? Hotels around the world would be filled with young people eager to meet someone who’ll just offer them a job out of the blue. Carl used what he learned from the mortgage company to start his real estate empire and he eventually became one of the richest people in America.
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