APRIL 2018 ISSUE 70
1230366 I SIDE LINES // MARY SOPHIA
DELVING INTO THE NINE ZEROES CLUB
10 I FACT & COMMENT
STEVE FORBES
GREAT MEDICINE FOR TRADELEADERBOARD
12 I THE WORLD’S 20 RICHEST
14 I WOMEN POWER
16 I THE RACE TO THE OUTER SPACE
18 I WHITE HOUSE BLUES
20 I THE ARAB WORLD’S RICHEST
FAMILIES 201822 I BILLIONAIRES OF ARAB ORIGIN
WITH OTHER CITIZENSHIP24 I BILLIONAIRES WHO MADE THEIR
FORTUNES THROUGH AUTOMOBILE
DEALERSHIPS
26 I THE RICHEST INDIANS
IN THE GCC
28 I CASHING IN ON MENA’S
STARTUP BOOMTHE WORLD’S
BILLIONAIRES
30 I HOW TO BEAT WALL STREET AND
SILICON VALLEY SIMULTANEOUSLY
The American Dream is alive and well on Wall
Street thanks to Robert Smith, the richest black
person in America, who has figured out a way
to reengineer both private equity and enterprise
software—and used this secret playbook to build
$4.4 billion fortune.
BY NATHAN VARDI36 I THE FORTUNATE SON
For a decade India’s richest man waged a blood
feud with his younger brother for control of the
subcontinent’s telecommunications industry.
Now Mukesh Ambani shares the inside story
of his ultimate triumph—Jio, an ultra-cheap
4G broadband service whose biggest winners
will be the millions of ordinary Indians who
suddenly consume more mobile data than either
the U.S. or China.
BY NAAZNEEN KARMALITHE WORLD’S
20 RICHEST2 FORBES MIDDLE EAST APRIL 2018