Billionaires

Duolingo’s Guatemalan Immigrant Founder Luis von Ahn Is Now A Billionaire

When the editorial team behind this year’s Forbes Sustainability Leaders List started brainstorming possibilities for the list, the name Elon Musk came up early. And for good reason. The 2008 introduction of the Tesla Roadster did something many thought impossible–it made electric cars cool. And as Tesla continued to deliver new models, it spurred the auto industry into accelerating their own EV models. That’s been a big deal for the environment in the U.S., where cars count for over 20% of total carbon emissions.

Trump would be 82 years old on Election Day 2028, a year older than Joe Biden is today.

The U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation into the fatal Titan submersible implosion has unveiled new information on the events leading up to the tragedy, painting a troubling picture of ignored warnings, operational oversights, and risky decision-making.

Shares of Summit Therapeutics, whose cancer drug candidate turned heads after it outperformed a blockbuster drug from Merck, have been on fire. Now both of its co-CEOs are billionaires.

Cards Against Humanity has a long history of trolling Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Lubetzky founded the Kind snack company and is now worth an estimated $2.3 billion.

Plenty of rich people have blown fortunes on politics. But no other American has used politics to create as much personal wealth as the 45th president, who left office with a new asset — throngs of people willing to buy almost anything from him, at virtually any price.

Billionaire Kam Ghaffarian’s startup wants to build a space station to replace the ISS. But missteps, dire financials and delays have sent it spiraling out of trajectory.

The conservative slant of Murdoch’s media empire—which includes Fox News and the Wall Street Journal—could be under threat amid a high-stakes succession battle.