What were the famous millionaires like and what they did before they were rich

Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey are eminent entrepreneurs known to millions of people. Therefore, they must constantly think about keeping up appearances in front of the public. But it wasn’t always like that. We found old photos of wealthy celebrities to see what these respectable gentlemen and ladies looked like before the number of zeros in their bank accounts dramatically increased.

While we were preparing this compilation, we once again remembered in awesome.club that the powerful people of the world, had the opportunity of a carefree childhood, a rebellious adolescence and a youth full of surprises. Immediately, all these businessmen ceased to look like stone monuments, almost indistinguishable in the shadow of their own greatness.

When Musk was 18 years old, he worked on the farm with his uncle and had no idea that one day would become a successful entrepreneur and inventor, whose fortune would be estimated to be in the billions of dollars🇧🇷

“He was a great guy,” as Musk commented on his old photo. We cannot agree more with him.

In the 1970s, Bill Gates was arrested twice by the police. Both cases were related to driving without a license. The first photo was taken on one of these occasions.

At that time, Microsoft, founded by Gates, was starting to develop. But later on, the company’s income increased so much that, for the next 18 years, Bill was considered the richest person on the planet.

As a teenager, Jeff worked at McDonald’s and never thought he would one day become a billionaire. But years later, he founded the company Amazon, which helped him earn a fortune of 534 billion reais. and in 2018 he was recognized as the richest man in the world.

At age 14, the future creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, developed the software to call taxis and messengers over the Internet. Also, in his youth, the future multimillionaire got work as a model.

The microblogging network was launched when Dorsey was 30 years old🇧🇷 So far, his fortune is estimated at 20 billion reais.

From an early age, Richard Branson tried to start his own business. While still studying, he tried to grow Christmas trees and raise budgies for sale. However, both projects failed.

Branson’s first successful venture was the founding of the magazine student, which, among others, published articles with Mick Jagger and John Lennon. At age 17, Richard founded his first charity, the Student Advisory Center.

Today, Richard Branson, 68, is considered one of the richest people in England. He is the founder of Virgin Group Corporation, which includes around 400 different companies.

In the first photo, future businesswoman Sara Blakely is 21 years old. She was a student, and the only thing she dreamed of was having long black hair (in the picture she is wearing a wig).

After college, Blakely worked as a traveling saleswoman, selling fax machines door-to-door. Sara’s uniform included pantyhose, but the girl couldn’t find the perfect socks for working in Florida in hot, humid, uncomfortable all-day weather.

So, with the support of her mother, Blakely created a kind of modeling band and patented it. Later, she also started producing underwear and founded the company Spanxwhich earned 8 million dollars in the first year of its existence.

Cristiano Ronaldo started playing football at the age of 8. Since then, he has become the most expensive player in history. (in 2009, the Spanish club Real Madrid paid Manchester United from England, an amount of approximately 410 million reais to count on the Portuguese), and several times he was the top scorer of several championships.

Ronaldo posted his photo on Twitter after another European Champions League victory. The image was accompanied by the Nike emblem and the slogan “This guy knew”.

Notably, fans noticed that the athlete’s t-shirt in the photo was branded Adidas, which generated a lot of funny comments on social media.

Mark Zuckerberg was born into a large family, where he was the only boy of 4 children. At school, he became interested in programming. One of his first projects was the online version of the game “Risk”.

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, along with a group of like-minded people, launched the social network Facebook. At the time, he was just 20 years old. The popularity of this project was the reason why, years later, Zuckerberg entered the list of the 10 richest people on the planet with a fortune of 280 billion reais.

Every success has its beginning. Often ordinary children become rich and famous people. Look at your son or daughter. What do you think? Maybe one day they will also become the protagonists of a similar post?