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7. Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad is the founder of IKEA, the largest furniture retailer in the world. It’s likely that his company made the chair or desk you’re reading this on. Forbes currently lists Kamprad’s net worth as being $3.4 billion.
Kamprad never made it to college, dropping out of high school at the age of 17 to start IKEA. His business savvy began developing way before then; as a young boy, he bought matches in bulk and sold them on his bicycle. That little boy selling those matches started a chain of events that (likely) lead to your chair, or desk.
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