36 Self-made Woman Billionaires: How They Made Their Billions

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There are currently 36 Self-made Woman Billionaires in the world. This is a study of how these superwomen made their fortunes? I adopt the 6-W approach. Why do we need to study Self-made billionaires? Where do they come from? Which countries? Are there any immigrants? Are any of them from small towns? Who are they? How did they make their immense wealth? Which sector? What did they study? What educational background do they have? Did they attend elite universities? What kind of spousal support did they receive? What kind of family support did they receive? Do all of them get their start-up capital from venture capitalist or from Wall Street? How many of them are married? What is their average age? What is their average number of children? What is their average number of divorce etc?
The biggest surprise I found is “You can have it all”. Besides the obvious wealth, this group of women is also relatively young, with an average age of 58 which is about 10 years younger than their male counterparts. To top it all, over 95% of them are married and over 90% have children, with average number of children 2.7. About one third of them are either high school dropouts high school graduate or college dropouts. More than 90% of them have great success in both business and family. A few of them are household names, such as Oprah Winfrey and JK Rowling, most are little known even in their own countries.
This is the first of a series of book on self-made billionaires. We build museums to house famous artists. We adore great athletes in Olympics and Word Cup. We adore super-entertainers, and we create Nobel Prize for super-scientists and super-politicians. So, why not celebrate self-made billionaires too? Why not build a pantheon for self-made women billionaires?

There are two reasons why I chose woman group to start. The first reason is start-small, a valuable lesson I learned in the many start-up failures I have had. The woman group with only 36 members, allows me to start-small. I have a database of more than 1,000 self-made billionaires. If I include a few hundreds, I think I will bore most readers. The second reason is my Christian values, which lead me to begin my study with one of the most disadvantaged group.

In alphabetical order, the 36 Self-made Women Billionaires are:
1.Alakija, Folorunsho from Nigeria
2.Aponte, Rafaella from Switzerland
3.Baturina, Elena from Russia
4.Benetton, Giuliana from Italy
5.Blakely, Sarah from US
6.Burch, Tory from US
7.Chan, Laiwa from China
8.Chang, Jin Sook from US
9.Chen, Ningning from China
10.Cherng, Peggy from US
11.Cheung, Yan from China
12.Chu Lam-Yiu from China
13.Coates, Denise from UK
14.Cook, Gayle from US
15.Dai, Weili from US
16.Faulkner, Judy from US
17.Fisher, Doris from US
18.Hawken, Xiu Li from China
19.He, Qiaonv from China
20.Hendricks, Diane from US
21.Holmes, Elizabeth from US
22.Ilitch, Marian from US
23.Lei, Jufang from China
24.Liu, Xiaomeng from China
25.Love, Judy from US
26.Mazumdar-Shaw, Kiran from India
27.Perkins. Mary from UK
28.Resnick, Lynda from US
29.Rowling, JK from UK
30.Sandberg, Cheryl from US
31.Wang, Laichun from China
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