Carlos Slim Carlos Slim Carlos Slim Helú (; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the "Forbes" business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of August 2018, he is the seventh-richest person in the world according to "Forbes" listing of The World's Billionaires with a net worth estimated at $67.4 billion. He is the richest man in Mexico. His conglomerate includes education, health care, industrial
Carlos Slim Movil purchased 30 percent of the team along with transmission rights as Slim doesn't have the rights to transmit content by broadcast television or cable TV as well as putting him in competition with Televisa and TV Azteca, two television companies with rights to the rest of Mexican soccer's first division. In 2013 Slim's company, Grupo Carso opened Mexico City's Telcel Theater, which operates in conjunction with his entertainment company, Grupo CIE (Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento), Mexico's equivalent of Live Nation. In April 2013 Slim entered the business of managing Mexican prisons to expand the investments of his construction-finance company.