THE MOGULS

In: FP, Issue 203

Abstract

The Global Thinkers in this category have many different answers on what one should do with several million dollars: assemble a media empire, build a new Hollywood an ocean away from California, take on repressive regimes, help tech start-ups get on their feet, bring the Internet to every corner of the globe. Together, they show that the benefit of great wealth and status is the ability to define one's mission and reinvent it again and again. The global thinkers include: 1. Jeff Bezos for betting on old media, 2. Wang Jianlin for dreaming of a Chinese Hollywood, 3. Noura Al Kaabi for building an Arabic-language media empire, 4. Saad Mohseni for believing that entertainment can change a country for the better, 5. Mark Zuckerberg for envisioning a stripped-down Internet, 6. Wang Gongquan for defying the unwritten rules of China's business elite, and 7. Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant for throwing open the gates to venture capital. Adapted from the source document.