Jun 29, 2023, 03:51 PM IST

First jobs of billionaire businessmen

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At a petrol station, Dhirubhai Ambani was an attendant. Dhirubhai had previously resided in Yemen. He had a job as a petrol station attendant there. He received barely 300 rupees per month at the time. 

Dhirubhai left after this and came back to India in 1957. Following his arrival, he established his own business.

 Ratan Tata has previously worked at Tata Motors. He formerly resided in this area in the GT Hostel, which is a Telco employee residence. His primary duty at Tata Steel was to oversee the blast furnace and limestone. 

Tata didn't even have a résumé when he received the first job offer. Ratan Tata promptly wrote his résumé on the on-site electronic typewriter after showing up at IBM without one. He then gave it to him. Ratan Tata didn't, however, work for IBM.

At McDonald's, Jeff Bezos' first position was as a fry cook. In 1980, he started his first employment. He barely received a wage of $2 an hour for this work. 

Later, after studying computer engineering, Bezos began working with clients. He held a highly important job at a business named Bankers Trust on Wall Street.

Initially employed as a research associate, N R Narayana Murthy founded Infosys. He once worked for an IIM Ahmedabad faculty member. 

Later on, he was appointed Chief Systems Manager. After that, he founded Softronix, a non-operational corporation. He was hired to work at Patni Computer Systems in Pune where he received a salary of  Rs 10,000.

Veteran stock market investor Warren Buffett is well-known. In addition, he serves as Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO. Warren used to deliver newspapers for the American publication "The Washington Post." In 1944, Warren received $175 per month for performing this job.