Forbes have pronounced that the richest man in the world is Carlos Slim, who sounds more like an action movie character than an entrepreneur despite dominating the Mexican mobile phone industry. And the Mexican regular phone industry, and those of several other Latin American countries. His three sons head the companies Teléfonos de México, Telcel and América Móvil, and his net worth is now 35.7 billion pounds (36 if you neglect that trivial little three hundred million dollars).
To his credit he doesn’t seem to care about the title, because having that much money and still seeking reassurance would be tragic (like Alexander Lebedev, who threatened to sue the magazine if they didn’t put him back on the billionaires list). The top positions are a powerful indicator of our information age: a mobile phone magnate, Bill Gates the mass-market operating system provider, and stockpicker Warren Buffet – whose entire occupation is based only on the availability and interpretation of data.
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