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    • Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez donate $102.5 million to combat homelessness: 'It brought tears to...'

      'This is just the beginning. It’s a $2 billion commitment… and we’re going to continue doing it,' Lauren Sanchez said.

    • Google co-founder Larry Page is now world’s second-richest person. His net worth is...

      Larry Page’s fortune shot up by $8.7 billion on Monday. The primary driver of his wealth surge was his 3.2 percent stake in Alphabet.

    • ‘$1 trillion squad’: AI images of Musk, Altman, Huang, Cook with other billionaires spark frenzy

      The exaggerated realism, combined with the uncanny nature of the images created using Grok and Nano Banana, among other AI tools, blurred lines between fact and fiction, prompting many to initially wonder if the photos were genuine. Even after confirmations that they were AI-generated, the debate only amplified the meme storm.

    • Nithin, Nikhil Kamath’s mother shares rare childhood pics of Zerodha co-founders. See post

      Revathi Kamath also opened up about years of self-doubt, describing how she once believed her only role was managing the home and raising her children. She urged women to recognise their talents and step out with confidence.

    • CEO tries out billionaire investor Bill Ackman’s viral ‘May I meet you’ dating tip. What happened next

      Bill Ackman wrote that in his youth, he would ask, 'May I meet you?' before starting a conversation. According to him, the phrase 'almost never got a no' and opened doors to meeting 'really interesting people'.

    • Kim Kardashian now worth $1.7 billion after Skims gets $225 million funding led by Goldman Sachs

      Skims's revenue has more than quintupled since 2020, when it stood at $145 million. The company was co-founded by Kim Kardashian and CEO Jens Grede in 2019.

    • This millennial Meta co-founder, his wife are giving away $20 billion: 'It might be hard for...'

      Dustin Moskovitz, 41, built Facebook alongside Mark Zuckerberg before founding Asana in 2008, now valued at $3 billion. He and his wife and former journalist, Cari Tuna, are committed to donate at least half their wealth during their lifetimes.

    • Warren Buffett left his 3 kids $500 million a year to give away: 'Ruling from the grave does not...'

      The 95-year-old billionaire has two sons and a daughter. 'All three children now have the maturity, brains, energy, and instincts to disburse a large fortune,' Warren Buffett said.

    • Billionaire CEO holds meetings on weekends, sends feedback after midnight: ‘I believe leaders are...’

      AMD CEO Lisa Su's net worth soared after a 120 percent rise in the company's share price this year pushed her onto Forbes’ billionaire list.

    • Even billionaires, Oscar-winners beg for feedback: MasterClass CEO on desire to do better

      MasterClass’s roster includes names like Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, Stephen Curry, Kris Jenner, and Samuel L. Jackson. CEO David Rogier said that despite their fame and success, they all share a common “superpower”: the ability to learn on the fly.

    • Meta's billionaire co-founder says being CEO for 13 years was 'quite exhausting'

      'I don’t like to manage teams, and it wasn’t my intention when we started,' Dustin Moskovitz said. 'I’d intended to be more of an independent or head of engineering or something again. Then one thing led to another, and I was CEO for 13 years.'

    • Billionaire entrepreneur says work-life balance is 'the biggest line of bulls*** that’s ever been created'

      Jimmy John Liautaud, the 61-year-old founder of Jimmy John’s sandwich chain, said building a billion-dollar business demands relentless effort and zero compromise. Jimmy John Liautaud

    • Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, 70, accused of stalking, abusing 31-year-old ex-girlfriend

      Eric Schmidt has long been known for maintaining an open marriage and relationships with younger women. As the CEO of Google, he had an extramarital relationship with a public relations executive. The equation between then was messy even a decade after they split.

    • Shah Rukh Khan enters the billionaire club in Hurun India Rich List 2025 with wealth of Rs 12,490 crore

      Shah Rukh Khan has officially entered the billionaire club, topping the M3M Hurun India Rich List 2025 with Rs 12,490 crore wealth. Powered by Red Chillies Entertainment, global real estate, and luxury cars, SRK remains Bollywood’s ultimate Badshah.

    • Elon Musk’s transgender daughter says she’s broke after cutting ties with world's richest dad

      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.

    • This billionaire CEO says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’

      '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.

    • Billionaire Mark Cuban prefers reading 700 emails every day to attending ‘long, boring’ meetings

      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.

    • 4 richest Africans wealthier than half the continent, finds Oxfam

      Oxfam argued that government policies are skewed against the poor and provide leeway for the continent's super-rich to amass even more wealth.

    • Bill Gates could have been 'world’s first trillionaire' if he retained his Microsoft stock: Report 

      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.

    • Antiques expert, who scammed billionaires, royal families of over Rs 44 crore, gets jailed

      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'.

    • Gopichand Hinduja, family top UK's Sunday Times Rich List again. Their net worth is...

      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.

    • CEOs' salary rises 50% in 6 years while workers see just 0.9% wage hike: Report 

      Oxfam’s findings show that billionaires earn more in an hour than most workers make in a year.

    • Elon Musk's transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson has 'no idea' how many siblings she has

      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.

    • AI startup founder Lucy Guo replaces Taylor Swift as world's youngest self-made woman billionaire

      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.

    • Jensen Huang, Michael Dell out of the $100 billion club after tough quarter. How much they lost

      The 100 billion club had 16 members at the beginning of the year. Now, it has only 13.

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