7 Carlos Slim´s business who became a millionaire

Civil engineer Lebanese roots, his father was a Maronite Catholic named Youssef Salim, who emigrated from Lebanon at age 14, and changed its name to Julian Slim Haddad, adding the surname of his mother, as usual. Son of Linda Helú and Julian Slim Haddad, Carlos Slim Helu is a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he gave the chair of Algebra and Linear Programming. His business career began at a young age when he began to invest in the purchase of businesses, which was successfully thrive, as well as the sale of real estate in downtown Mexico City. The key, as always, is cunning and smell to identify opportunities: knowing how to use the crisis to crisis rather than take advantage of one. In the early eighties, in the middle of the famous crisis that paralyzed Mexico and leaking historical capitals, Slim and his group carried out major investments in the country, acquiring several companies that were sold at very good prices. Carlos Slim has mentioned repeatedly that this stage of the country reminded about what happened his father Julian Slim, when in 1914 and in full Mexican Revolution bought him his older brother the remaining 50 percent of the business they had in common, called La Estrella Eastern and believing in Mexico and at your destination. "If my dad, in full revolution, with the shaken country, without yet having a family, being a foreigner without the root that gives you the time, he confided in Mexico and in the future, how would not do it", said Carlos Slim in some interviews. The activity of Carlos Slim has diversified in various sectors. In 1997 he acquired shares in the computer company Apple Computer, just before the release of iMac, making multiply his fortune. In 1997 it acquired Prodigy, an American ISP. Carlos Slim managed to make this company a powerful server for various Internet services to achieve an alliance with MSN, launching a portal in Castilian of the hand with Microsoft. This, soon after, became the leading portal in Mexico. The September 10, 2008 purchase 6.4% of The New York Times, that is 9.1 million shares worth about $ 123 million. According to Slim this is strictly a financial move and not a strategy to enter the world of American media. With this shareholding becomes the third largest shareholder in the company after the Ochs-Sulzberger family, who have held a controlling stake of the Times since 1898, and the hedge fund Harbinger Capital civil PartnersIngeniero Lebanese roots, his father It was a Maronite Catholic named Youssef Salim, who emigrated from Lebanon at age 14, and changed its name to Julian Slim Haddad, adding the surname of his mother, as usual. Son of Linda Helú and Julian Slim Haddad, Carlos Slim Helu is a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he gave the chair of Algebra and Linear Programming. His business career began at a young age when he began to invest in the purchase of businesses, which was successfully thrive, as well as the sale of real estate in downtown Mexico City. The key, as always, is cunning and smell to identify opportunities: knowing how to use the crisis to crisis rather than take advantage of one. In the early eighties, in the middle of the famous crisis that paralyzed Mexico and leaking historical capitals, Slim and his group carried out major investments in the country, acquiring several companies that were sold at very good prices. Carlos Slim has mentioned repeatedly that this stage of the country reminded about what happened his father Julian Slim, when in 1914 and in full Mexican Revolution bought him his older brother the remaining 50 percent of the business they had in common, called La Estrella Eastern and believing in Mexico and at your destination. "If my dad, in full revolution, with the shaken country, without yet having a family, being a foreigner without the root that gives you the time, he confided in Mexico and in the future, how would not do it", said Carlos Slim in some interviews. The activity of Carlos Slim has diversified in various sectors. In 1997 he acquired shares in the computer company Apple Computer, just before the release of iMac, making multiply his fortune. In 1997 it acquired Prodigy, an American ISP. Carlos Slim managed to make this company a powerful server for various Internet services to achieve an alliance with MSN, launching a portal in Castilian of the hand with Microsoft. This, soon after, became the leading portal in Mexico. The September 10, 2008 purchase 6.4% of The New York Times, that is 9.1 million shares worth about $ 123 million. According to Slim this is strictly a financial move and not a strategy to enter the world of American media. With this shareholding becomes the third largest shareholder in the company after the Ochs-Sulzberger family, who have held a controlling stake of the Times since 1898, and the hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners.

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