600 people have reserved $250,000 tickets to fly to space with Virgin...
Summary List PlacementWhile Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos claim they aren't in a race to be the first billionaire in space, a long list of wealthy people aim to be among the earliest A-listers to...
View ArticleElon Musk showed up in Richard Branson's kitchen at 3 a.m. to wish him luck...
Summary List PlacementElon Musk visited his fellow space-baron billionaire Richard Branson at home on the morning of Branson's historic flight to the edge of the cosmos.The Virgin Group tycoon flew...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Bill Ackman has likely scored a $200 million gain on...
Summary List PlacementBillionaire investor Bill Ackman has likely made over $200 million on Domino's Pizza stock in the past 14 weeks.Ackman's fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, owned just over...
View ArticleRichard Branson brought Stephen Colbert's headshot to space with him
Summary List PlacementStephen Colbert has never been to space, but his headshot just hitched a ride there with billionaire Richard Branson.Branson, who founded the spaceflight company Virgin Galactic...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren wants to investigate Warren Buffett and other billionaires'...
Summary List PlacementBillionaires aren't paying their fair share of taxes, and the banks and wealth managers enabling them should be investigated, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse...
View ArticleBlue Origin adds an 18-year-old passenger to Bezos' spaceflight after the...
Summary List PlacementOn July 20, Blue Origin will send the youngest-ever person to space. The space exploration company announced Thursday that 18-year-old Oliver Daemen will fly onboard its New...
View ArticleBill Ackman's PSTH scraps Universal Music deal after SEC pushback —but the...
Summary List PlacementBill Ackman has scrapped his plan to buy 10% of Universal Music for $4 billion using his special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) after federal regulators poured cold water on...
View ArticleJeff Bezos just traveled to the edge of space. Here are 13 things you...
Summary List PlacementSEE ALSO: 'Amazon' wasn't the original name of Jeff Bezos' company, and 14 other little-known facts about the early days of AmazonHis mother, Jacklyn Bezos, gave birth to him when...
View ArticleRichard Branson congratulated Jeff Bezos after he reached the edge of space:...
Summary List PlacementFellow billionaire Richard Branson congratulated Jeff Bezos for reaching the edge of space on Tuesday morning. Bezos joined his brother, Mark Bezos, 82-year-old aviator Wally...
View ArticleJeff Bezos thanks Amazon employees and customers for paying for his jaunt to...
Summary List PlacementAfter a brief trip to space on Tuesday morning, the billionaire Amazon cofounder and former CEO Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers and employees for making the trip possible."I...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Bill Ackman laments his nixed SPAC deal, sounds the...
Summary List PlacementBill Ackman bemoaned his nixed SPAC deal, hinted he already has alternative targets in mind, and predicted a massive economic boom during a CNBC interview this week.The...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Leon Cooperman rules out an imminent market crash,...
Summary List PlacementLeon Cooperman ruled out an imminent market crash, warned that stimulus efforts are ballooning the national debt to dangerous levels, and emphasized the appeal of "big tech"...
View ArticleReclusive billionaire and Google cofounder Larry Page has been off the grid...
Summary List PlacementOn June 19, as Fiji battled a second wave of coronavirus cases, Fijian Broadcasting Company News published a report that Google cofounder Larry Page had donated COVID-19 medical...
View ArticleWally Funk was the only endearing thing about Jeff Bezos' spaceflight
Summary List PlacementWhen Jeff Bezos blasted off to the edge of space on Tuesday, it was a huge achievement for his space company, Blue Origin. But it wasn't necessarily a good look.Before it even...
View ArticleSources say Google billionaire Larry Page has sold his $45 million superyacht...
Summary List PlacementThe reclusive Google cofounder Larry Page has spent months during the pandemic enjoying Fiji's beautiful islands, but there's one thing he's not had with him: his famous...
View ArticleWarren Buffett won't be following Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson into space —...
Summary List PlacementAmazon's Jeff Bezos and Virgin's Richard Branson blasted themselves into space this month, while SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's grand vision is colonizing Mars. Warren Buffett doesn't...
View ArticleJeff Bezos is offering to cover billions in costs if NASA remedies its...
Summary List PlacementJeff Bezos' space company is offering to cover billions of dollars in costs for a contract with NASA to take astronauts to the moon.Blue Origin said it would cover up to $2...
View Article31-year-old billionaire Evan Spiegel has quietly donated nearly $100 million...
Summary List PlacementSnapchat cofounder Evan Spiegel, one of the world's youngest billionaires, has quietly donated almost $100 million in stock this year, Securities and Exchange Commission filings...
View ArticleBusiness leaders have immense power over space travel but there's a risk they...
Summary List PlacementAmazon founder Jeff Bezos recently jetted to the edge of space and back in a rocket designed and built by his company Blue Origin. Not long before that, fellow billionaire...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Vinod Khosla explains why he backed HealthifyMe after...
Summary List PlacementBillionaire investor Vinod Khosla recently backed an Indian health-and-fitness app called HealthifyMe. The Khosla Ventures boss told Insider in an exclusive interview why he...
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