"Washing dishes. Throwing newspapers. Flipping burgers at McDonald's. Some of the world's most powerful business leaders - including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk - started their careers far from the C-suite. Many of them are now worth billions of dollars, with all of the net worths in this piece reported using Forbes' estimates. Here are the unglamorous early jobs of 15 top current and former CEOs."
""I was responsible for filling out the forms to correctly put in order the transactions that they were requesting," Johnson told Fortune. "It was a pretty basic job. But it gave me an appreciation of what it was like to be responsible for really important things in people's lives and making sure that they were always done accurately and correctly.""
Many influential business leaders began their careers with unglamorous, entry-level jobs such as washing dishes, delivering newspapers, and flipping burgers. Several now-powerful executives worked their way up from roles like taking customer orders, waiting tables, and selling goods. Examples include Jensen Huang working at Denny's, Mark Cuban selling garbage bags, Mary Barra starting at General Motors, and Abigail Johnson taking orders before later becoming CEO. Multiple founders and CEOs began far from the C-suite and later accumulated multibillion-dollar net worths according to Forbes estimates. A total of 15 current and former CEOs and their early jobs are highlighted.
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