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2. Carlos Slim He was born in Mexico City in 1940. The second most rich person in the World (Fortune)‏ With a net worth of around U.S. $60 billion through his holdings.

3. Carlos Slim His father, Julian, traveled from Lebanon to Mexico in 1902. He opened a small store in the south of Mexico City. Through hard work and shrewd investments he became a successful businessman.

4. Carlos Slim Slim became an engineer at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Known as UNAM. He helped his father on his family business until 1965.

5. Carlos Slim In 1965 he got married. In 1966 he established Grupo Carso, whose name combines the first two syllables of Carlos and Soumaya (his wife) and started to grow slowly until 1990.

6. Carlos Slim During this time, Carlos, and his holding company had bought many campanies of all kinds including mines, real state, investments and insurance. He also found the Carso foundation which helps people from Mexico in many ways.

7. Carlos Slim In 1990 his fortune was of about 10 millions. At year-end, the company wins the bid to acquire Telmex, after which Carso Global Telecom, the holding company for Telmex, is created. The brand Telcel is also created.

8. Carlos Slim Slim took advantage of a Mexico's political problem and bought Seguros de Mexico, Mexico's largest insurer, for just $44 million. Slim knows very well how "putting together monopolies" can make real money.

9. Carlos Slim His most famous and profitable company was created in 2000, America Movil. América Móvil wireless service operates in 16 countries and provides phone service to more than 137 million customers.

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12. Carlos Slim Slim's holdings (Grupo Carso) include five insurance companies (valued at $1.5 billion), a Mexican retail chain (pretax annual profit, $500 million), a mining company, an auto parts manufacturing company, a bank, a tobacco company, oh, and another mining company. Saks Fifth Avenue and CompUSA are some companies Slim owns in the USA.

13. Carlos Slim Fundacion Carso will pursue its supporting program with an initial asset of 4 billion dollars, and will create three Carso Institutes: Health, Sports and Education. This Foundation has already donated 100 million dollars in many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

14. Carlos Slim In Latin America almost everything seems related to Carlos Slim. If you buy a car, a house, health insurance, a cup of coffee, or just use your cell phone, you are probably interacting with his business empire. “When we decide to do something, we do it quickly” Carlos Slim

15. References CarlosSlim.com Wikipedia.org Fortune.com Money.CNN.com AmericaMovil.com GrupoCarso.com