Hey, /biz/. I'm writing a novel and I'd like to ask

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Hey, /biz/. I'm writing a novel and I'd like to ask your help so the economic aspect of such novel is detailed and realistic.

I'm going to be as straightfoward as I can.

There is a character. This man is precisely 30 years old. He is white, healthy, has a wife, young children, and, more importantly, an initial monetary sum of the equivalent of $100 000 dollars - nothing more, nothing less. The idea is that, when he is, precisely, 40 years old, he must be a billionaire for the story to work. Not "Donald Trump" billionaire, but just enough to be considered one. He would initially start with something simple like running a pub or store, and, by the age of 40, he must be a nationally appreciated celebrity who runs phone, software, car and cellphone companies.

So my first question is how can he get there, considering it's only a 10 years span?

Considering that when he was 30, the year was 2006, then maybe he could benefit from the crash? If yes, how could that be? If he does have to benefit from 2008, please make it so he's not leeching on other's peoples poverty, as the character is a hero.

My second question is how can a country get money.

By 2018, this character will be elected president of a third world country, and, within only two mandates, turn it into a first world power. So he will need shit tons of money to do the impossible: one tenth of taxes with ten times more government investments - all in superavit.

Where can all that money come from? I was thinking the IMF, the WB and the BIS would play vital parts in this. Consider that the character has a "power" to convince (read: brainwash) a max number of some 50 or 100 people into doing whatever he wants without other people (even the targets themselves) notiching it. So one possibility would be simply loans with 0% interest rates or donations by big banks, but that's too simple and I'd like something more "complex" and "believable".

Remember this is fiction, so some rules can be bent and others, broken.