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10 Most Successful Female Entrepreneurs

We’ll be looking at the 10 most successful female entrepreneurs in the world and how they are winning in their various careers.

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September 15, 2022

Oluwafemi Afolayan

There’s a popular saying that what a man can do a woman can even do more. In Africa, it is popularly known that women are natural-born entrepreneurs, and businesswomen and they indeed flourish.

We’ll be looking at the 10 most successful female entrepreneurs in the world and how they are winning in their various careers.

Most entrepreneurs and executives are still men, but women are increasingly becoming business leaders and innovators.
While there have been a few female founders in the past, the last few decades have seen a significant increase in self-made women in business.

Below contained in the table of the list of the 10 most successful female entrepreneurs are the name and net worth of these famous female entrepreneurs in the world;

Rank	Name	Net Worth
1	Gina Rinehart	$28.4 billion
2	Oprah Winfrey	$3.5 billion
3	Folorunsho Alakija	$2.5 billion
4	Denise Coates	$2.5 billion
5	Cher Wang	$1.6 billion
6	Wang Laichun	$1.5 million
7	Sara Blakely	$1 billion
8	Sheryl Sandberg	$1 billion
9	Beyonce	$450 million
10	Indra Nooyi	$144 million

1. Gina Rinehart – $28.4 Billion

Gina Rinehart, an Australian billionaire, is the richest person in Australia and the sixth richest woman in the world, with a personal fortune of $11.7 billion.

Rinehart is the chairman of the Hancock Prospecting Group, a mining company that produces 30 million tonnes of iron ore per year.

Rinehart took over as chairman of the company after her father Lang Hancock died in 1992, and she has since become one of the world’s richest female entrepreneurs.

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2. Oprah Winfrey – $3.5 Billion

Oprah is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. Her most successful and popular venture was probably ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show. Which was recognized as one of the longest-running daytime talk shows ever to air, lasting a total of 25 seasons.

Oprah Winfrey is the second most successful female entrepreneurs in the world.

3. Folorunsho Alakija – $2.5 Billion

Folorunsho Alakija is Nigeria’s richest female entrepreneur, likewise the richest woman in Nigeria. She is worth approximately $2.5 billion.

Folorunsho’s first business was a tailoring shop called Supreme Stitches, which she founded after working at Sijuade Enterprises in Nigeria and the First National Bank of Chicago.

After Supreme Stitches became very successful a few years later, Alakija looked into various other industries for investments, including the oil industry and the printing industry in her case.

She was named the 96th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes last year.

Folorunsho Alakija is also a successful female entrepreneur.

4. Denise Coates – $2.5 Billion

Denise Coates CBE is a British billionaire businesswoman, the founder, majority shareholder, and joint chief executive of the online gambling company Bet365. She is the founder of Bet365, an online gambling company based in the United Kingdom. Denise bought the Bet365.com domain name in January 2000 and spent a year building the site before releasing it to the public.

Bet365 was launched with a £15 million loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland. It has since grown to become one of the world’s largest online gambling sites. You can’t watch a football game in the United Kingdom without seeing a Bet365 advertisement.

In October 2019, Forbes magazine estimated Coates’s net worth at $12.2 billion. Meanwhile, in 2020, she earned a salary of £422 million and dividends of £48 million.

Denise Coates is among the most successful and famous female entrepreneurs in the world.

5. Cher Wang – Net Worth: $1.6 Billion

Cher Wang is a co-founder of HTC, a well-known mobile technology firm.

Wang graduated from the University of California with a degree in economics in 1981. She joined ‘First International Computer’ a year later, and after co-founding VIA in 1987, Cher Wang went on to co-found HTC in 1997.

Cher Wang has a net worth of $1.6 billion and was named to Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires in 2010, 2011, and 2012. In 2012, she was even named to their list of the world’s most powerful women.

Cher Wang is without a doubt one of the most successful and famous female entrepreneurs, and HTC is now one of the leading mobile technology companies.

6. Wang Laichun – $1.5 Billion

Wang Laichun is a Chinese billionaire, chairwoman, and co-founder of Luxshare Precision Industry Co., Ltd, also known as Luxshare-ICT. The company, founded in 2004 in Dongguan, China, designs and manufactures computer cables; it is also a key Apple AirPods assembler.

When first broke the boundary of becoming a billionaire, she was stated as one of the world’s youngest self-made female billionaires, in other words, the youngest famous female entrepreneur.

7. Sara Blakely – $1 Billion

Sara Blakely is the multi-million dollar underwear company Spanx’s founder.
Blakely did not have a large sum of money to invest when she founded Spanx. It truly exemplifies why she is one of the most well-known female entrepreneurs.
Sara’s idea was repeatedly rejected by potential investors, and it took a lot of hard work to get the company off the ground.
Oprah Winfrey’s compliments drove up awareness and sales of Sara’s products during the initial marketing of the brand.

She is the seventh on this list of most successful female entrepreneurs in the world.

8. Sheryl Sandberg – $1 Billion

Sheryl Sandberg was named one of the top 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2012, and she now has a net worth of $1 billion, making her one of the most successful and famous female entrepreneurs in the world.

She is the current COO of Facebook and an American technology executive, author, and activist. She also serves on the boards of Women for Women International and the Center for Global Development.

Sheryl Sandberg is among the most successful and famous female entrepreneurs in the world.

9. Beyonce – $450 Million

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is a singer, songwriter, producer, and actress from the United States. As a child, She competed in various singing and dancing competitions.
Beyonce has won awards for her music, but the majority of her fortune has come from other ventures such as endorsements, investments, and her own clothing line.
It’s safe to say that Beyonce and Jay-Z share the same “empire state of mind,” and they are among the world’s wealthiest couples.

10. Indra Nooyi – $144 Million

Indra Nooyi was born on October 28, 1955, and she is an American business executive. PepsiCo currently employs her as the CEO. She joined the company in 1994, rising through the ranks to become CFO in 2001 and CEO in 2006.
According to Forbes, Indra was named the 13th most powerful woman in the world last year. Indra’s salary from PepsiCo is approximately $28.6 million, and her total net worth is $144 million, making her one of the world’s most successful and famous female entrepreneurs.