Who are the modern equivalents of Carnegie and Rockefeller?

Rockefeller and Carnegie have many similarities. Both were born poor, and lived in families with strong mothers and weak or unorthodox fathers. They both worked in low-paying jobs at a young age, excelled, were promoted, and invested intelligently in fledgling industries of the Industrial Revolution. read more

Because of the magnitude of both Rockefeller's and Carnegie's contributions, when selecting their equivalents, the only appropriate choices would have to be the very top of today's business leaders. Warren Buffett is a business leader that resembles Carnegie. read more

Excluding monarchs and autocrats, the wealthiest private individual in the history of capitalism is variously identified as Jakob Fugger (died 1525), of the early modern Fugger family of merchants and bankers, and early 20th-century American entrepreneurs Andrew Carnegie (died 1919) and John D. Rockefeller (died 1937). read more

In the early 1900’s he amassed the equivalent of $663 billion in today’s dollars. Other emergent industrialists created great wealth for themselves with legendary names like J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Mellon, Guggenheim, Vanderbilt, Peabody and Ford. read more