10. Michael Bloomberg
Company – Bloomberg L.P.
2016 earnings – $7.3 billion
Wealth increase – 20.5%
This wolf of the Wall Street didn’t cross over to the dark side. Instead, he seized an opportunity, and after 15 years at Salomon Brothers launched a startup in 1981, today known as Bloomberg L.P. After the first sale in 1982, the rest is history – early 1990’s business growth regarding the launch of Bloomberg Business News and subsequent rise in the field of global business and financial information and data crowned with the invention of financial platform called Bloomberg Terminal. Being the 108th Mayor of the New York City, with a total of three mayoral terms starting in November 2001, he struggled with the 9/11 attack aftermath and rose the Big Apple from the ashes. Regardless of his age, as a 72-year-old, he once again found himself at the head of Bloomberg L.P. With few smart moves, such as refocusing its media division on financial and business news, he improved the company’s prosperity, as well as its own, since he reached the 8th place among World’s richest, with the net worth of $42.8 billion.
