Carlos Slim Helu
Carlos Slim was born on Jan. 28, 1940. Carlos Slims dad was a very wealthy individual at his time meaning that Carlos came from a wealthy family. Carlos did not start up the company he just kept on progressing. Don Julian, (Carlos dad), placed all of his children in early business school. He wanted one of his children to take over the company," La Estrella de Oriente." Don Julian gave his children a checking book so they can practice counting with their allowance.
Carlos Slim studied civil engineering in UNAM. Although Carlos Slim was a student he also taught algebra and Linear programming while studying for his degree. Carlos Slim started of in business. He opened his first company was Carso which the name was made up of Carlos's first three letters of his name and the first two of his wife Soumaya.
Carlos was a well known business man since the 1980's. His business Carso was going well till the depression Mexico had on 1982. Carlos was in deep trouble financialy if he did not figure out what to do fast to save his company. Fortunately Carlos played his cards just right to end up owning some bigger companies after the depression ended making Carlos a wealthier man than ever before. After having all of this power he made more moves by aquiring Telemex and Telecom. These companies were a globally strategic sector. Telemex is a telecommunication that allows the whole latin countries communicate or use telecommunication. Mr. Carlos Slim has stepped down from the owner position of all the big corporations he owned and placed himself as chairman for his corporations and has been elected as chairman for many other corporations such as the Mexican stock market. He also belong to different boards that are putting their effort to help better Latin countries with unemployment rate, and education. He has handed over some of his companies to his three sons.
Carlos Slim company Grupo Carso is a company that is combined of different types of smaller companies that each manufacture something diferent. For example Grupo Carso once owned Fabrica de papel Loreto y Pena Pobre, Frisco, and Empresas Nacobre. These are just a few of the companies that Carlos Slim's company Grupo Carso bought. Carso was created on 1965 and later incorporated to Grupo Carso in order obatian most of the stake for Cigatam. Grupo Carso was worth over 6 billion dollars and was the largest Telecommunication company in Latin America under its belt of companies.
Carlos key to success was his fathers education ways and his intellect with the business world. His focuses alot in employment education and Health for his country Mexico. He has donated to various charities in Mexico hoping to improve the economy and way of living in Mexico.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Carso
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