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Here's how Donald Trump's net worth since 1988 stacks up against other...

Donald Trump has grown his wealth at a much slower rate over the last 27 years than many of his billionaire peers.Inspired by this report we found in The New York Times comparing Trump's wealth to a...

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How Phil Knight built Nike into one of the biggest brands in the world and...

Over the past 51 years, Nike cofounder Phil Knight built the company from an idea he had in grad school into one of the biggest companies in the world. With a net worth of $21.6 billion, he's also one...

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Here's how much money some of the world's richest people lost as a result of...

How much wealth can a one-day plunge in the Chinese market wipe away? A lot: The world’s richest 400 people lost a collective $124 billion Monday.Chinese stocks continued to tumble Tuesday morning as...

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The best colleges for becoming a billionaire

News flash — billionaires are smarter than you or I.That's the takeaway from a new study released by Duke University analyzing the ultra-wealthy and connected attendees of the Davos World Economic...

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Son of the richest man in China: Escaping the Chinese system 'would be suicide'

Wang Sicong, the son of the richest man in China, did an incredibly frank interview with the BBC for its three-part documentary on Chinese youth.We caught the interview via Shanghaiist.He said that for...

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The secretive billionaires behind 10 wildly popular brands

We all know Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos.Other billionaires, though, are less well known and even secretive.Despite their business exploits and the famous...

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This chart shows where all the richest billionaires in tech are from

We all know there's a huge concentration of tech power in Silicon Valley, but that's not the only place where tech money has spread. The tech industry has made billionaires all over the world. This...

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Meet Reed Hastings, the man who built Netflix

Netflix is one of the greatest underdog success stories at the crossroads of technology and television.What started as a DVD-by-mail rental service has now spawned a slew of award-winning original...

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An Egyptian billionaire wants to buy an island for refugees and build a new...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is willing to spend $100 million on an island for refugees to start their own country.Produced by Adam BanickiFollow INSIDER:On FacebookJoin the conversation about...

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The extravagant ways tech executives spent their summers

How was your summer vacation?Probably not as extravagant as the vacations taken by some of the biggest names in tech.Tech millionaires and billionaires vacation a bit differently from normal...

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Budweiser wants to buy Miller — and the Brazilian private-equity titan who...

Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch InBev wants to buy Miller maker SABMiller, in what could be one of the top six corporate takeovers in history.It would create a merged group with a value of around $275...

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17 quotes that take you inside the mind of billionaire investor Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban always seems to come out on top.He sold his first company, MicroSolutions, for $6 million. He did even better with his next company, Broadcast.com, which he sold to Yahoo for almost $6...

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The richest billionaires under 35 and how they got their money

These are the wealthiest people in the world under 35. Some of the faces you'll recognize, while some you may not.Produced by Eames Yates. Original Reporting by Tanza Loudenback.Follow BI Video:On...

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The reason billionaires keep working doesn't have anything to do with money

"Why don't billionaires just stop making money, and instead start spending it, such as by traveling around the world?" originally appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are republishing an answer...

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Europe's 11 richest billionaires who never went to university

There's no doubt that having a degree can open certain doors for you in life, but that's not to say that without one you can't break into the 1%.Though many of today's most successful business people...

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Donald Trump clobbers 'bankrupt' Forbes for 'embarrassing' $4.5 billion...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump trashed Forbes in an interview for a larger piece the magazine published Tuesday on the real-estate magnate's net worth.Forbes' Randall Lane wrote that...

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From dirt poor to billionaire — the incredible rags-to-riches story of...

In the 1957 DeWitt Clinton High School yearbook, Ralph Lauren wrote "millionaire" as one of his life goals.On Tuesday, the fashion legend announced he would step down as CEO from his iconic brand Polo...

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The 33 richest hedge fund managers in the US

Forbes has released its annual "Richest People In America" list.The Forbes 400 always includes the biggest names in the hedge fund space. We counted 33 hedge fund managers this year.Fund managers Bill...

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If you think Apple is a cult, you haven't been to a Tesla event

Tesla CEO Elon Musk threw a huge party to reveal the electric car company's newest vehicle: the Model X. Thousands of Tesla owners and potential buyers came out to get a peek at the $132,000 SUV....

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A billionaire could build a mansion bigger than the White House in Los...

The opportunity to build a mansion on an 11-acre property at the intersection of three of Los Angeles' most exclusive neighborhoods — Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Holmby Hills — is up for grabs for a...

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