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Sheldon Gary Adelson Age: 83 (Net worth: $30.4 billion) is an American business magnate,
investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas
Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and is the parent company of
Venetian Macao Limited, which operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo
and Convention Center. He also owns the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom, and the Las Vegas
Review-Journal.[2]

Las Vegas Sands Corporation is an American casino and resort operating company based
in Paradise, Nevada, United States. Its resorts feature accommodations, gaming and entertainment,
convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and clubs, as well as an art and science museum in
Singapore.
It has several resorts in the United States and Asia. Among its properties in the United States are
two resorts on the Las Vegas Strip: The Venetian and The Palazzo. Also in the United States is
the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
In Asia, the Marina Bay Sands located in Singapore is the most recent addition to the company's
portfolio. Through its majority-owned subsidiary Sands China Ltd., the company owns several
properties in Macau, including The Venetian Macao, The Plaza Macao, Four Seasons Hotel Macao
and the Four Seasons-branded apartments at the Sands Cotai Central development, as well as
the Sands Macao on the Macau peninsula. The company has opened a 6,400-room complex at
the Sands Cotai Central in 2012, which featured the Sheraton, St. Regis, Holiday Inn,
and Conrad hotel brands. It is the largest casino company worldwide.[3]

Early life

Sheldon Gary Adelson was born into a low-income family and grew up in
the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur
Adelson.[7][8] His father's family was of Ukrainian-Jewish and Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry.[9] His mother
immigrated from England, and one of his grandfathers was a Welsh coalminer.[10] His father drove a
taxi, and his mother ran a knitting shop.
"An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage,
faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again."
-Sheldon Adelson, 2013[11]

He started his business career at the age of 12, when he borrowed $200 from his uncle (or $2,640 in
2015 dollars) and purchased a license to sell newspapers in Boston.[12] At age 16 in 1948, he then
borrowed $10,000 (or $98,500 in 2015 dollars) from his uncle to start a candy-vending-machine
business.[13] He attended trade school to become a court reporter and subsequently joined the
army.[14] Adelson attended City College of New York, but decided to drop out, allowing more time for
entrepreneurship.
He established a business selling toiletry kits after being discharged from the army then started
another business named De-Ice-It, which sold a chemical spray to help clear frozen windshields.[15] In
the 1960s, he started a charter tours business.[7] He had soon become a millionaire, although by his
30s he had built and lost a fortune twice. Over the course of his business career, Adelson has
created almost 50 of his own businesses.[16]

Li Ka-shing
Net worth: $31.2 billion; Age: 89

High school dropout[1]

A Harvard Business School article summarises Li's career in the following way:
From his humble beginnings in China as a teacher's son, a refugee, and later as a salesman, Li
provides a lesson in integrity and adaptability. Through hard work, and a reputation for remaining
true to his internal moral compass, he was able to build a business empire that includes: banking,
construction, real estate, plastics, cellular phones, satellite television, cement production, retail
outlets (pharmacies and supermarkets), hotels, domestic transportation (sky train), airports, electric
power, steel production, ports, and shipping.[17]
Li's businesses cover almost every facet of life in Hong Kong, from electricity to telecommunications,
from real estate to retail, from shipping to the Internet. The Cheung Kong Group's market
capitalisation is HK$1,193 billion (US$154 billion) as of April 2016. (This includes the Group's
controlling stake in 15 listed companies around the world.) The Group operates in over 50 countries
and employs around 300,000 staff worldwide.

Childhood & Early Life

 Li Ka-shing was born in Chaozhou in Guangdong province, China, on 29 July 1928. His
family was of modest means and his father, a teacher, headed a local primary school.
 He grew up in a period of great political turmoil in China. His family fled to Hong Kong in
1940 after the Japanese invasion of China. The family struggled to re-establish their lives
in their new surroundings when another major tragedy befell the family within a span of
three years. His father became ill with tuberculosis and died a painful death when Li Ka-
shing was just 15 years old.
 He was forced to drop out of school and take up a job in order to provide for his family. He
started working in a plastics trading company as a salesman selling plastic watchbands
and belts. He worked hard, often working up to 16 hours a day and proved to be a
capable salesman.

Later Years
 After gaining valuable experience working in plastic industries, Li was able to form his own
business, a plastics company named Cheung Kong in 1950. Initially the company
manufactured artificial flowers and exported them to the United States. Throughout the
1950s the company saw steady growth and Li began looking for opportunities to expand
the business.
 He purchased his first factory in 1958; this would be the first of his many real estate
investments. Over the ensuing years he changed the focus of his plastics company which
he eventually transformed into a property development and management company.
 The business thrived over the following years and the company was renamed Cheung
Kong Holdings in 1971. It was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972.
  He expanded his business by acquiring Hutchison Whampoa from HSBC in 1979. This
added multiple diverse industries to his existing business. He soon transformed
Hutchison into the world’s largest independent operator of ports, with investments in
container port facilities around the world, including in Hong Kong, Canada, China, the
United Kingdom, Rotterdam, Panama, Bahamas and many others.
 Li also forayed into the technology business. One of his firms, Horizons Ventures, an
investment and venture capital firm, which specifically backs new internet and
technology startup firms, bought a stake in doubleTwist, a digital . He also has a 0.8%
stake in social networking website Facebook which he acquired through his other firm,
Li Ka Shing Foundation. He also has a stake in Ginger Software Incorporated.

Wang Jianlin
Chairman, Dalian Wanda Group

Age: 62

Net worth: $31.3 billion

is a Chinese business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder of the conglomerate
company Dalian Wanda Group, China's largest real estate development company, as well as the
world's largest movie theater operator.[3] He owns 20% of the Spanish football club Atlético
Madrid.[4] In 2016, Wang agreed a deal with FIFA to launch the China Cup, in which national football
teams compete in Asia each year.[5]
During the course of his career, Wang was the economic consultant of Yunnan province, as well as
a construction consultant of the Guiyang government, and was named honorable citizen of
Changchun city, and "outstanding contributor" to the construction of Dalian city.[6]
Wang Jianlin was born on October 24, 1954, in Cangxi County, Guangyuan, Sichuan, China. His
father fought for Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army during the Long March (October 1934–
October 1935).[7]
After sixteen years in the People's Liberation Army, Wang started working as the Office
Administrator for the Xigang District in the city of Dalian.[8] In 1989, he became the General Manager
of Xigang Residential Development. He was Head of Factory in a Jiangyin-based factory. In 1992,
he started working as the Chairman for the Dalian Wanda Group. He has also been serving as
Assistant to the Regional Manager, Assistant Regional Manager and Director in Jiangsu Jiangnan
Water Co.[9]
His company owns 21.57 million square metres of investment property, 168 Wanda Shopping
Plazas, 82 luxury hotels, 213 cinemas, 99 department stores, and 54 karaoke centres around China.
The company became the world's largest theatre owner in 2012 when it acquired AMC Theatres. He
bought out U.S.-based AMC Entertainment for US$2.6 billion. He listed it on the New York Stock
Exchange in December. He flew in celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale, and John
Travolta to help launch an US$8 billion mini-Hollywood in the coastal city of Qingdao in January
2014.
Wanda Group acquired the landmark Edificio España building in Madrid, Spain, in March 2014
from Grupo Santander for "about a third less than the €389 million that Banco Santander paid in
2005, at the height of Spain's construction boom".[10] Previously, Dalian Wanda had taken on billion-
dollar hotel development projects in London and New York, as well as property projects in India.
In January 2014, he announced plans to build the world's largest studio pavilion at Oriental Movie
Metropolis which include a 10,000 square meter studio and an underwater stage.[11]
In 2014, he acquired land at 9900 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California to build the
American headquarters of his entertainment company.[12]
In January 2015 it was reported that he was buying a 20% stake in the Spanish football club Atletico
Madrid for €45m.[13]
In November 2016 Wang's Dalian Wanda Group announced plans to acquire Dick Clark Productions
for about US$1 billion, giving it the broadcasting rights to the Golden Globe Awards, the Academy of
Country Music Awards, and the New Year countdown celebrations in New York.[14] Wanda already
owns Legendary Entertainment, co-producer of films such as Jurassic World, and U.S. cinema
chain AMC Entertainment Holdings.[15]
The Economist called him "a man of Napoleonic ambition", and citing his military background in the
PLA, where he rose from border guard to regimental commander. He enforces "iron discipline" in the
workplace, where employees are fined when they violate the company's conservative dress code.
Despite his age, he has a "trim figure".[16]