Reading through articles, what I can construe is they have became millionaires and in turn, billionaires not by hard work or good luck, it is the tactics they had used at later age.
Harland Sanders: 73
Better known as Colonel Sanders, the man behind KFC – the world’s favourite fried chicken chain – didn’t find success until he began to franchise his burgeoning chicken business at the age of 66. Nine years later in 1964, he hit the jackpot when he sold the business for $2 million ($20m/£16m in 2024 money).
He was estimated to be worth $3.5 million at the time of his death in 1980, the equivalent of $13 million (£10m) today.
Now meet the youngest billionaires in 24 countries around the world
Updated by Alice Cattley
Alice Cattley
27 June 2024
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