The cities with the most billionaires 2024
Just ten cities are home to nearly a quarter of the world’s billionaires. Here’s where they choose to live.
Just ten cities are home to nearly a quarter of the world’s billionaires. Here’s where they choose to live.
By organizing challenges and pre-screening small nonprofits, Lever for Change has helped a handful of billionaires shift some giving towards global grassroots organizations.
The Jersey-based owner of Petco and Swiss watchmaker Breitling is slated to start trading on the Amsterdam stock exchange on Friday with a valuation of up to $16 billion, enough to mint 10-figure fortunes for at least two co-founders.
Former President Donald Trump is on the cusp of adding another $1.3 billion to his social media fortune, though the valuation of his company remains downright puzzling, likely putting in doubt how much of his stake he’ll ever be able to cash in on.
There are many routes to making the billionaires list. Some are more likely than others.
Amazon hit a new record share price Thursday for the first time since July 2021, completing its dramatic recovery from its 2022 doldrums as investors seemingly can’t get enough of big technology stocks.
CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.
From a 19-year-old college student to Asia’s richest person, it pays wells to be born rich.
The world’s wealthiest technology moguls have ridden the AI-fueled frenzy to never-before-seen heights.
The world’s billionaires are riding high, with Forbes finding a record 2,781 of them around the globe this year, worth a record $14.2 trillion altogether. With many markets up, the surge in wealth has made 265 people billionaires over the past year, up from 150 newcomers in 2023.