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Elon Musk, whose net worth is estimated at $413 billion, has been publicly estranged from Vivian Jenna Wilson since 2022, when she filed a petition to change her name and gender, severing legal ties with her father.
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'They would have taught me how to go public. We didn’t do it. How to do budgets. We don’t have budgets,' said Epic Systems founder Judy Faulkner, whose unconventional approach built a $5.7-billion-a-year software empire.
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The former Shark Tank judge said receives between 700 to 1,000 emails daily and manages them using three phones—two Androids and one iPhone.
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Oxfam argued that government policies are skewed against the poor and provide leeway for the continent's super-rich to amass even more wealth.
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If Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates held onto every Microsoft share, their combined fortune would be about $1.5 trillion. The Microsoft co-founder would likely be the first trillionaire, with a $1.2 trillion fortune even after his divorce -- more than thrice Elon Musk's peak net worth.
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Known for his distinctive long hair and three-piece suits, the convict Bill Pallot has been described by magazine Vanity Fair as 'the world's leading expert on the works of 18th-century France'.
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Despite a slight dip in wealth, Gopichand Hinduja and his family remain the UK's richest, highlighting their influential Hinduja Group's diverse global empire spanning multiple industries.
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Oxfam’s findings show that billionaires earn more in an hour than most workers make in a year.
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Born as Xavier Musk, Wilson, Elon Musk's eldest twin child, came out as a transgender woman at 18. In 2022, she legally changed her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, adopting her mother’s maiden name to distance herself from her father.
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At 30, Lucy Guo has a net worth of $1.3 billion. At 35, Taylor Swift has a net worth of about $1.6 billion, as per Forbes.
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The 100 billion club had 16 members at the beginning of the year. Now, it has only 13.
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Jorge Pérez told all of his children that to work for him, they had to get a master’s degree from a top business school and spend at least five years working in the tough New York real estate market,
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Data analysed by Moneycontrol shows that the top 10 most affected billionaires include Ravi Jaipuria, K P Singh, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Gautam Adani, Shiv Nadar, and Dilip Sanghvi.
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The ByteDance co-founder agreed to an over 10 million yuan ($1.4 million) annual salary to poach a top AI engineer from a rival company.
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A major drawback for the 'gold card' has been US' tax implication. The country taxes its citizens on their income around the world, regardless of where they live. Interestingly, Abhay Soi has been paid about Rs 400 crore in income tax in 2022-23.
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Donald Trump said he was expecting rich people to come to the US by buying the gold cards. 'They’ll be wealthy, and they’ll be successful,' the US President said, adding the move would help reduce the federal deficit.
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Tech billionaires who once championed climate action are now staying silent as Trump rolls back environmental protections and promotes fossil fuels, reported The New York Times.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he was constantly worrying that any mistake could cost the company its place at the forefront of the personal computer revolution.
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Elon Musk had earlier estimated that building a self-sustaining city on Mars would cost over $1,000 trillion -- far exceeding the current US GDP of $29 trillion.
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In 1978, Nandan Nilekani had gone against his father and taken up electrical engineering at IIT Bombay. It was also the beginning of his love for new technology, especially mini computers.
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Elon Musk's original post in October 2023 criticised the Wikimedia Foundation's financial dealings and questioned the necessity of their funding.
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'I wasn’t big into cars. I wanted to live like a student and just have fun,' Shark Tank judge and serial investor Mark Cuban said.
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Jack Cowin said being a 'people person' and having an innate curiosity and desire to learn has been key to his success.
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Between 2023 and 2024, the Amazon founder made $8 million for every hour in the year.
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During his time at Microsoft in the ’90s, Bill Gates used to take an annual 'Think Week,' when he would isolate himself in a cabin on Washington’s Hood Canal with nothing but a big bag of books and technical papers.
