George Soros criticized the EU's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and...
Hedge fund billionaire George Soros has pledged to donate €1 million ($1.09 million) each to two separate European cities to help them battle the coronavirus.In a statement emailed to Business Insider,...
View ArticleMeet Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, who has made nearly $4 billion...
Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of video conferencing startup Zoom Technologies, Inc., built a $35 billion video conferencing empire in nine years.The 49-year-old billionaire's net worth jumped 112% to...
View ArticleOusted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is no longer a billionaire after SoftBank...
Ousted WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is no longer a billionaire, according to Bloomberg.The cofounder and former executive is now worth an estimated $450 million after SoftBank abandoned its deal to buy $3...
View ArticleWeWork cofounder Adam Neumann just lost his billionaire status. Here's how...
WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann just lost his billionaire status, according to Bloomberg.The ousted CEO is now worth between $450 million and $750 billion, based on estimates from Forbes and...
View ArticleMukesh Ambani, the richest man in India, donated $66 million to coronavirus...
Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, pledged ₹500 crore ($66.7 million) to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's coronavirus emergency fund, Ambani's nonprofit Reliance Foundation announced on...
View ArticleBillionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakely is loaning out her wedding dress to...
Spanx founder Sara Blakely will loan her wedding dresses to 31 brides whose weddings have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.Blakely built a billion-dollar fortune after founding shapewear maker...
View ArticleZoom's CEO has joined Forbes' billionaires list for the first time as use of...
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has joined Forbes' annual billionaires list for the first time.Zoom's videoconferencing service has skyrocketed during the coronavirus outbreak as about 90% of Americans are under...
View ArticleAfter divorcing the richest man in the world, MacKenzie Bezos is one of the...
When MacKenzie Bezos divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019, after 25 years of marriage, she walked away with a 4% stake of Amazon worth nearly $40 billion.That stake alone puts her wealth in line with the 25...
View ArticleThese are the 15 richest people in the world right now
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the wealth of the world's billionaires to drop by $700 billion from 2019, according to Forbes' World Billionaires List.The top 15 richest billionaires are worth a...
View ArticleThe 15 richest women in America right now, ranked
Forbes just released the 2020 edition of the World's Billionaires List, which ranks the wealthiest people in the world.Many of the world's richest women hail from the US.Some American women on the list...
View ArticleMeet the 15 youngest billionaires in America
Forbes released its 2020 edition of the World's Billionaires List, which ranks the richest people in the world.The youngest billionaire on the list, 22-year-old Kylie Jenner, is the founder of Kylie...
View ArticleHow the world's 5 youngest billionaires spend their time and money
Not that unlike their older peers, the world's youngest billionaires spend their fortune on things such as luxury cars, travel, and shoes.Norway is home to three of the world's five youngest...
View ArticleThe top 10 cities in the world for billionaires, ranked
A whopping 26% of the world's billionaire population is concentrated in just 10 cities, according to Forbes' annual World's Billionaires List.Strong tech industries have fostered considerable wealth in...
View ArticleMeet the youngest billionaires in the world
Forbes has released its 34th annual World's Billionaires List. Finalized on March 18, 2020, it ranks the world's 2,095 billionaires by net worth.For the second year in a row, Kylie Jenner has the title...
View ArticleLess than a year after her divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos is...
MacKenzie Bezos has ranked on Forbes' Billionaires List for the first time ever.She has an estimated net worth of $36 billion.MacKenzie is now one of the 25 richest billionaires and one of the five...
View ArticleMeet Bill Ackman, the controversial hedge-fund manager who made $2.6 billion...
Billionaire Bill Ackman made $2.6 billion for his hedge-fund off a controversial bet that the coronavirus would crash the stock market last month.Ackman was accused of making inflammatory remarks...
View Article28 books by billionaires that will teach you how to build a fortune and run...
Take a page from the super-wealthy and successful by reading the books they wrote.Business Insider compiled a list of 28 books for you to learn how these recognizable people achieved the seemingly...
View Article'They don't get to summer in the Hamptons? Who cares?': CEO says US should...
Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of the investment company Social Capital, told CNBC the US should refuse to bail out companies owned by billionaires during the coronavirus pandemic.More than 10 million...
View ArticleMeet the world's millennial billionaires, who have a collective net worth of...
Forbes recently released its annual World's Billionaires List.There are 2,095 billionaires in the world — and 57 of them are millennials, defined by the Pew Research Center as those born between 1981...
View ArticleFisher Island, the richest ZIP code in America with an average income of $2.2...
The richest ZIP code in the US is Fisher Island, a members-only island off the coast of Miami where the average income of residents is $2.2 million.Fisher Island has bought "thousands" of COVID-19...
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