Alice Walton just became the world’s wealthiest woman
The only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton overtook French heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers on Wednesday morning.
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The Top 10 Richest People in the World (September 2024)
Who is the richest man in the world? Who is the richest woman in the world? Forbes break down the top 10.
Manslaughter probe launched after Bayesian yacht sinking kills British entrepreneur, Morgan Stanley chief
The sailing yacht will be pulled from the water off the coast of Sicily, where it sank last week and seven people died.
Who is Mike Lynch? Tech entrepreneur and daughter Hannah Lynch missing after yacht sinks near Sicily
Lynch, a former Forbes billionaire, made his fortune as the CEO of Autonomy, a tech company acquired by HP in a sale that led to more than a decade of legal strife.
Forbes next billion-dollar startups list has accurately predicted 100+ unicorns in 10 years
Of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list’s 225 alumni, 131, or 58%, became unicorns, including DoorDash, Figma, Anduril, Benchling and Rippling. This year, the list is dominated by artificial intelligence.
These crypto billionaires are cashing out
As bitcoin soars and stock prices more than double, the executives at top publicly-traded crypto firms have been regularly selling.
Tether’s billionaire CEO is afraid of wasting this ‘once-in-one-hundred-years opportunity’
Paolo Ardoino says that the company has already made more money than he could have ever dreamed. Now he plans to use the company’s balance sheet to replicate its success with digital dollars in the fields of data, artificial intelligence and education.
The highest-paid athletes at the Paris Olympics
LeBron James will be the first self-made billionaire to compete in the Summer Games, but who else stands on the earnings podium in basketball, tennis, golf and other sports?
The 10 richest people in the world lose $66 billion in a day
The billionaires behind Tesla, Alphabet, Meta, LVMH and more saw their fortunes plunge in the billions on Wednesday following a rash of earnings reports that disappointed investors.
Bolt’s former billionaire founder is in legal trouble — again
Earlier this year, Breslow settled a lawsuit that alleged he’d defaulted on a loan insured by his own company. Now, angry investors in Bolt, including BlackRock, have blocked it.