Want To Be Rich? These 4 Industries Launched Billionaires’ Careers

Core Insights - The analysis of the top 20 names on Forbes' 2025 Billionaires List reveals four industries that have generated significant wealth, highlighting the career paths of successful entrepreneurs and innovators [1] Technology and AI - Tech billionaires often began their careers as coders or engineers, demonstrating that technical skills can lead to the creation of global empires [2] - Elon Musk started coding at age 12, selling a video game for $500 [3] - Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room after developing early chat applications [4] - Larry Ellison began as a software programmer at Ampex Corporation, where he created a CIA database that inspired the name of his company, Oracle [5] - Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as Ph.D. students at Stanford, transformed their research project into Google [6] - Steve Ballmer transitioned from an assistant brand manager at Procter & Gamble to becoming Microsoft's president and CEO [9] - Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA after working as a microchip designer at AMD and climbing the corporate ladder at LSI Logic [10] Luxury Brands - Founders in the luxury sector have successfully turned everyday purchases into billion-dollar businesses through brand loyalty [11] - Bernard Arnault, known as the "pope of fashion," initially worked for his father's real estate firm before investing in luxury goods, leading to his fortune [12] - The net worth of key figures includes: Bernard Arnault at $178 billion from LVMH [14], and Jensen Huang at $98.7 billion from NVIDIA [13]