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20 of America's wealthiest people signed an open letter in June asking for...
Molly Munger, Ian Simmons, and Robert Bowditch are among a handful of billionaires and multimillionaires making a renewed push for the government to raise their taxes and siphon away some of their...
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Kevin Plank, who founded Under Armour in his grandmother's basement, is...
Kevin Plank founded Under Armour, a leading athletic-wear brand, 23 years ago in his grandmother's basement.On October 22, Under Armour announced that Plank would be stepping down from his role as CEO...
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A 24-year-old who has shared photos of himself partying with Rihanna and...
Eric Tse became a billionaire on Tuesday after receiving a stake in Sino Biopharmaceutical, the company founded by his father, as a "gift,"it said in a statement.Tse, 24, now has a net worth of $3.8...
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11 mind-blowing facts that show just how wealthy Jeff Bezos, the world's...
Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world.The Amazon CEO is worth an estimated $110 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.That makes him 20% richer than the British monarchy.Bezos'...
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I got on board the biggest yacht at the Monaco Yacht Show. Take a look inside...
I attended this year's Monaco Yacht Show, a glamorous event for yachting industry insiders and wealthy VIPs looking to buy or charter yachts.Monaco is a tiny yet lavishly wealthy city-state on the...
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The billionaire who dished out $34 million to pay off student loans for an...
Robert F. Smith, the billionaire software investor who spent $34 million to pay off student loans for an entire college class, called American's $1.5 trillion in student loans "atrocious" in an...
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A billionaire who signed the Giving Pledge in 2012 said Bill Gates'...
Telecommunications billionaire Leonard Tow isn't satisfied with how his fellow billionaires have responded to the Giving Pledge's challenge to give away the majority of their fortunes. Founded by Bill...
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Amazon is about to release its earnings. Here's how CEO Jeff Bezos makes and...
Amazon is set to release its quarterly earnings after markets close Thursday afternoon.The company's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was the first person in modern history to accumulate a fortune of over...
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Jeff Bezos' space colonization plan was partially inspired by a 1976 book he...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced October 22 that it is teaming up with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman Corp to bid for a contract to send NASA astronauts back to the moon, but that's only one...
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Bernard Arnault is the world's third-richest person and CEO of LVMH, which...
Bernard Arnault is the third-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $102.4 billion, according to Forbes. Arnault, 70, was the second-richest person in the world for a time when he...
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Bill Gates is celebrating his 64th birthday today in a 20-year-old hat....
Bill Gates turned 64 on October 28, 2019.Gates' net worth is $108 billion.In July, Gates temporarily lost his ranking as the world's second-richest person to LVMH's Bernard Arnault for the first time...
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Take a look inside the gala Marc Benioff hosted for USC, where the Red Hot...
Marc Benioff hosted the fourth Rebels With A Cause Gala at The Water Garden in Santa Monica on Thursday, a representative for USC told Business Insider.At the last Rebels With A Cause Gala in 2016,...
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The super-rich are catching a lot of flak in the 2020 election — and it's...
Before a crowd of almost 100,000 people at a packed football stadium in Philadelphia, a Democratic presidential candidate pledged to seize power back from the "economic royalists," arguing that...
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Meet Amancio Ortega, the fiercely private Zara founder who's worth $68.5...
Amancio Ortega, the founder of clothing retailer Zara, is the sixth-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. The 82-year-old Spaniard is worth an estimated $68.5 billion.Ortega owns 59% of...
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Juul is cutting 500 jobs by the end of the year, and its cofounders have both...
Juul is planning to lay off between 10% and 15% of its workforce by the end of 2019, The Wall Street Journal's Jennifer Maloney reported on Monday.A recent slash of Juul's valuation stripped cofounders...
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5 billionaires who never graduated from high school
There are many stories about prominent college dropouts who later became billionaires, but fewer about ultra-wealthy people who dropped out of high school before making their fortunes.Billionaires who...
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A 77-year-old Scottish oil tycoon used his time on stage at a high-profile...
American billionaires don't do enough to help underprivileged people outside the United States, billionaire philanthropist Sir Ian Wood said at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Ceremony at the New...
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200 Hong Kong restaurants have permanently shuttered since the protests...
Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, has pledged to donate HK$1 billion ($127 million) to help local businesses suffering after months of mass protests caused an economic meltdown, his charitable...
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The secretive family of Dutch billionaires who used to control Ray-Ban got as...
The Van der Vorms, a secretive family of Dutch billionaires, made as much as $4 billion off the sale of Ray-Ban owner GrandVision in July — but no one knows what they will do with the cash, Bloomberg's...
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A woman who studied 600 millionaires discovered that most of the superrich...
The key to building wealth is living in a home you can easily afford, according to Sarah Stanley Fallaw, a researcher who studied more than 600 millionaires.She found that most of the millionaires she...
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