Only 70 mothers in the world have billion-dollar fortunes, and just eight of these built their own.
Margaret C. Whitman, better known as Meg, has had a storied career. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Business School, she worked at Procter & Gamble before moving to California with her husband, a neurosurgeon who now works at Stanford Hospital. After successful stints at consulting firm Bain & Co., Disney and Hasbro, she joined eBay, then a small tech firm with 30 employees, as chief executive. In 2004 she debuted on Forbes' World's Billionaires List.
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That makes her somewhat unusual. Whitman is one of just 70 billionaire moms in the world, and one of only eight mothers to have created her own billion-dollar fortune....
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well, that depends on what you mean by "built their own".
I bet it helped to have 5 generations of great wealth behind her on both sides of the family, & all the connections it entails:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hannah%20Bell/111http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hannah%20Bell/110Other supposedly "self-made" mother billionaires:
-- Rosalia Mera (Zara clothing, Spain)
-- Doris Fisher (The Gap, & funder of school privatization)
-- JK Rowling
"But being a billionaire mom--or for that matter, the child of a billionaire mom--isn't always easy..."
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109462/worlds-richest-moms?mod=career-leadershipThe pobrecitas!
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