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lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	Subject : About Shahid Khan Richest Pakistani Shahid Khan, a Lahore-born business magnate with a net worth of almost $4.4billion, comes into the same category. The son of a hardworking professor mother and born in a middle-class family whose bread and butter were served up courtesy of a small construction business. Here are some unknown facts about the man not known to Pakistani audience: Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:30:43 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	1. Shahid ‘Shad’ Khan was only 16 years old in the year 1967 when he moved to the US to pursue his dream of becoming an architect, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign (UIUC). His dorm room cost about $2/night, so for him to cater his own financial needs as a student, he got his first job was as a dishwasher – a job which paid him about $1.2/hr. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:31:21 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	2. Soon after, in his very first semester at college, he threw away his career blueprint of becoming an architect, citing the plain reason that the ‘architects just don’t make enough money’, and instead pursued a professional degree in Industrial Engineering. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:32:21 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	3. In 1978, with $16,000 from his savings and $50,000 from a loan company, he started Bumper Works, a small business which made one- piece, lightweight bumpers for trucks. Within two years, Khan bought Flex-N-Gate, the company that had initially hired him and brought his own business Bumper Works into the fold. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:33:22 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	4. By 1987, Shahid Khan’s Flex-N-Gate became the sole supplier of bumpers for Toyota pickup trucks, and within two years, his company had the honor of being the only supplier of bumpers for the entire Toyota line in the United States. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:34:24 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	5. In 2011, Shahid Khan became the first non-white owner of a National Football League team when he completed the purchase of Jacksonville Jaguars for an estimated $760million. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:35:43 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	6. He also owns an English football club, Fulham Football Club, a then-Premier club, currently plying its trade in the second tier of English football, from Egyptian business tycoon, Mohamed Al Fayed, in July 2013 for around $400 million. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:36:52 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	7. Shahid Khan now resides in a posh penthouse, situated on the 61st Floor of Park Tower in Chicago, one of Chicago’s tallest buildings, a 9000 square-foot estate which cost him a cool $8.3million. He is married to his college-sweetheart, Ann, and has two children, Tony Khan and Shanna Khan. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:38:21 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	8. Shahid Khan is also well-known for his philanthropic work, running the Jaguars Foundation which provided more than $1,000,000 in grants in 2012 to children’s and family programs, as well as other NFL and team-related initiatives. The Foundation also donated more than 11,000 charitable tickets with an in-kind value of nearly $500,000. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:39:22 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	9. Shahid Kahan is Ranked 179th in the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and is overall the 491st wealthiest person in the world; the 1st in Pakistan followed by Former President Asif Ali Zardari. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:40:26 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	10. After his penthouse, his most prized possession is a 308ft long yacht that boasts six bedrooms, three decks and a private sundeck with a pool Jacuzzi-BBQ area. As a symbol, a silver Jaguar has been attached to the bow, with one of its paws resting on a silver American football helmet. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:41:37 PM

lescol Age: 36 4154 days old here Total Posts: 6369 Points : 68 Location: Quetta, Pakistan Status : Offline	11. His well-groomed mustache has become a mascot for his teams as well as a sign of pride for his town Jacksonville in USA. Like no likes.
	Posted on November, 16 2015 10:51:24 PM

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