After a slow start,business began to boom.By 1954,the brothers were joined by another entrepreneur,a kitchen equipment salesman called Ray A Kroc who owned the franchise to the Multimixer,milk shake maker used throughout the McDonald's chain.A year later,Kroc had bought th...
John D. Rockefelleris often cited as the world's first billionaire, achieving that status in 1916 through his ownership of Standard Oil.2From that point over a century ago, wealth has multiplied to the point where the richest people in the world have fortunes that exceed $200 billion.3The ...