2Johann Graf – $5.8 Billion
If you are searching for a motivational story, Johann Graf is going to offer you just that!
Now he owns Novomatic Group, the world’s second-biggest slot-machine maker, but his life wasn’t always like this.
The “God of the Slot Machine”, as he is often called, was raised by his grandparents in a one-room flat with no running water, while he apprenticed as a butcher and was expected to take over his family’s butcher shop.
He took like in his own hands and in 1974 began importing American pinball machines to Austria via Belgium.
In 1980, he was founding Novomatic Automatenhandels AG, which introduced the Admiral line of gaming machines.
At this moment his net worth is estimated at $ 5.8 Billion.
