The Chobani billionaire who turned a $3,000 loan into a yogurt empire calls...
ChobaniCEO Hamdi Ulukaya believes that businesses should prioritize keeping their customers happy over the desires of the board, he said in an April TED talk.Ulukaya refers to himself as an "anti-CEO"...
View ArticleOutrageous photos show how the kids of billionaires spend their parents'...
Children of billionaires have privileges that many will never know.Some spend their parents' money on college tuition and hobbies.Others spend their fortunes a little more lavishly — think world...
View ArticleI spent six years interviewing 21 billionaires. I found that the 1% are...
Rafael Badziag interviewed 21 billionaires for his book "The Billion Dollar Secret." According to him, billionaires are happier than the average person, but not because they have more...
View Article7 billionaires who have Warren Buffett to thank for their fortunes
The success of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made at least seven people and families billionaires, including former Tennesee Gov. Bill Haslam.The Berkshire Hathaway billionaires include...
View ArticleThe billionaire CEO of Uniqlo — and the richest person in Japan — says a...
When asked about his succession plan, CEO of Uniqlo parent company Fast RetailingTadashi Yanai thinks his job is "more suitable for a woman" because "they are persevering, detailed oriented and have an...
View ArticleHere are all the ultra-wealthy people spotted at Burning Man in 2019, from...
Burning Man, an annual nine-day art-focused festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, is a favorite of celebrities and tech CEOs alike.This year's attendees included Ray Dalio, Diplo, and two...
View ArticleAlibaba cofounder Jack Ma — the richest person in China — is retiring with a...
Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma announced that he would step down as the company's chairman on his 55th birthday September 10th, Business Insider previously reported.A former teacher, Ma said in May that he...
View ArticleInside Jack Ma's 60,000-person retirement party, which was held in an Olympic...
Alibaba threw its cofounder and outgoing chairman Jack Ma a four-hour, 60,000-person going away party at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, the Wall Street Journal reported.Ma has a reputation for...
View ArticleThe Sacklers tentatively agreed to pay $3 billion out of their pockets and...
The owners of Purdue Pharma — including members of the Sackler family — have reached a tentative settlement agreement in thousands of lawsuits over what accusers say is misleading marketing of...
View ArticleA Las Vegas hotel billionaire just unveiled an inflatable space pod designed...
Hotel billionaire Robert Bigelow is dedicating part of his fortune toward designing and building inflatable space habitats.On Thursday, his company Bigelow Aerospace unveiled its "Mars Transporter"...
View ArticleMeet the 30-year-old cofounders of SmileDirectClub, Jordan Katzman and Alex...
The SmileDirectClub cofounders Jordan Katzman and Alex Fenkell, both 30, just became two of the youngest billionaires in the US.Shares of SmileDirectClub began trading on Nasdaq on Thursday, valuing...
View ArticleAhead of SpaceX moon mission, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa sells a $2.3 billion...
Yusaku Maezawa plans to sell a 30% stake in his online fashion-retail company, Zozo, to Yahoo Japan. As part of the $3.7 billion tender offer, Maezawa will resign and pocket $2.3 billion.During a press...
View ArticleExtroverted, but not neurotic: Here's how the ultra-wealthy score on...
German researcher Rainer Zitelmann had 43 people with net worths above $11 million take the Big Five personality test as a part of his psychological analysis of the ultra-wealthy for his book "The...
View Article5 things the ultra-wealthy are doing to prepare their portfolios for a...
Some economic indicators are warning that a recession may be imminent.Though many financial planners advise not altering your portfolio in reaction to the market, some high-net-worth people are...
View Article'Succession' took on this invite-only billionaire tech retreat and it got a...
The retreat for power players featured in the latest episode of HBO's "Succession" is based on a very real "billionaires summer camp" in Idaho, and the annual guest list includes names like Jeff Bezos,...
View ArticleTech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg would lose billions under...
Amidst her presidential bid, Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a flat tax on the ultra-wealthy: a 2% annual tax on households with a net worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and a 3% annual tax on...
View ArticleUltra-rich Americans are selling off luxury real estate faster than they're...
Ultra-wealthy people in the US are selling their luxury real-estate investments faster than they are buying new ones, TD Wealth senior vice president and regional investment director James Beam told...
View Article100 bottles of Champagne, 35 ounces of caviar, and a 255-foot superyacht:...
Monaco, a tiny city-state on the French Riviera, draws celebrities and the ultra-wealthy to annual events like the Monaco Grand Prix the Monaco Yacht Show.The 2019 Monaco Yacht Show kicks off on...
View ArticleThe billionaire who promised to pay off student loans for an entire...
The private-equity billionaire Robert F. Smith isn't just going to pay off the Morehouse class of 2019's student loans as he promised at their graduation: He's now promising to pay off their parents'...
View ArticleMeet Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire whose SoftBank mega-fund has...
Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of the Japanese holding company SoftBank, is worth an estimated $15.3 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.SoftBank has "lost faith" in...
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