Carlos Slim Helu, The New World’s No.1 Richest Man
Finally Bill Gates have been beaten. This time by Mr. Carlos Slim Helu a Communications businesses and Investments. Here’s some information about this man.
Carlos Slim Helu is a Mexican entrepreneur and businessman involved in a varied group of companies that include telecommunications, retail, banking and insurance, technology, and auto parts manufacturing businesses.
Carlos Slim Helú was born on the 28th of January, 1940 in Mexico City. His father Yusef Salim Haddad and mother Linda Helu were of Lebanese decent. He studied engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
The financial success that Slim Helu has achieved has been from finding undervalued companies and making them profitable. He went on to improve phone services in Mexico with his company offering local and long distance calls, mobile phone services, Internet services, and a telephone directory.
Even though he has admitted to having very poor computer skills, he sees the Internet and technology as a major growth area in his group of businesses. He owns the largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Mexico and had one of the largest in the United States of America with his acquisition of Prodigy.
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