According to Bloomberg, 47 year old Zhou Qunfei, the founder and CEO of Lens Technology, which makes glass screens for iPhones is the richest self-made woman on earth. Her
net worth has been estimated at over $9 billion which makes Zhou not
only the youngest self-made female billionaire, but also the richest
self-made woman on earth.
For those who don't know, Zhou grew
up on a farm and dropped out of high school at the age of 16 to start
working on the floor of a watch lens factory. She came of age at the
perfect time to get in early on China's liberalizing market.
With only a few thousand dollars, she founded her own company making watch lenses in 1993, at the age of 22.
According to Zhou in an interview
with Times back in 2015, "during the period of China's rapid economic
growth, there were plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs, including
women, It allowed me to develop my business. In the village where I grew
up, a lot of girls didn’t have a choice of whether to go to middle
school. They would get engaged or married and spend their entire life in
that village".
Today, Zhou's company, Lens
Technology now has at least 32 factories in seven different locations
and employs more than 90,000 staff. She is married with two children.
She works 18-hour days, and keeps a living quarters in her office.
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