Carlos Slimthe Mexican telecommunications magnate, He became the richest person in Latin America in 2022, and was ranked 13th in the list of the world’s greatest fortunes published in April of last year by the magazine Forbes.
The 82-year-old businessman, who gained three positions from 2021, He has a net worth of about $81.2 billion., according to the calculations of the medium. This represents a difference of 18,400 million dollars with respect to the fortune of 62,800 million dollars that was attributed to him two years ago.
His fortune is molded and kneaded behind several companies, but do you know what his first job was? When you find out, you won’t believe it.
What was Carlos Slim’s first job?
It is said that Carlos Slim’s first job was as a candy vendor in his houselocated in Lincoln Park in Mexico City. Slim was 10 years old when he began selling wholesale candy that he bought from a nearby warehouse..
According to the portal carlosslim.com, Slim began working at a very young age to help his family get ahead. His father, Julián Slim Haddad, was a Lebanese immigrant who had come to Mexico in search of opportunities. His mother, Linda Helú Atta, was a housewife.
Slim also worked as his father’s assistant in his real estate business. At the age of 15, Slim began studying civil engineering at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
After graduating from UNAM, Slim worked as an engineer at the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT). However, he soon decided to go into business.
In 1965, Slim founded Stock Investor, a stock brokerage firm. This was his first successful venture, and it gave him the foundation to build his own business empire. To date, Slim’s main companies are:
- Telmex
- Telcel
- Clear
- Inbursa Financial Group
- Promoter of the Economic Development of Latin America
- sanborns group
- Condumex Group
- frisco mining
- Mobile America
- Carso Group
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