Wealth
Fortunes, family offices, and how serious money is made and kept.
Entrepreneurs
Meet Peyush Bansal, Whose Plan to Help India See Better Made Him a Billionaire
Sixteen years after founding the eyewear retailer Lenskart, Peyush Bansal is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars, riding a November 2025 IPO and a chain of nearly 3,500 stores that has turned clearer vision into an 11 billion dollar company.
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Business
Peptides May Soon Be Legal, and These Companies Are Ready to Cash In
An FDA advisory panel has weighed legalizing production of seven peptides, and compounding pharmacies like Empower and Strive, along with Hims and Hers, are racing to turn a 3 billion dollar gray market into a legitimate business.
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Business
Jeff Bezos Joins Investor Group Taking a Multibillion-Dollar Stake in Liverpool FC
An investor group including Jeff Bezos, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and the Mittal family has agreed to buy about 30 percent of Liverpool FC in a deal valuing the Premier League club at roughly 7.4 billion dollars, with a path to majority control within a year.
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Wealth
Bill Gates-Owned Four Seasons Resort in Nevis Is Sued for 100 Million Dollars by Its Villa Owners
The homeowners association at the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, controlled by Bill Gates's Cascade Investment, is suing for more than 100 million dollars, alleging years of neglect from a broken water system to a fire site left unrebuilt for nearly four years.
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Wealth
New York's Pied-a-Terre Tax Will Barely Scratch the Billionaires It Targets
Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new tax on luxury second homes took effect on July 1, but for owners like Ken Griffin, Jeff Bezos, and Joseph Tsai the bill through 2031 amounts to a tiny fraction of a percent of their fortunes.
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Wealth
How Private Credit's Master of Disaster Built an 800 Million Dollar Fortune
Leonard Tannenbaum has extracted more than 670 million dollars in fees, dividends, and stock sales since 2008, building an estimated 800 million dollar fortune even as the public funds he ran trailed the market or lost value for their shareholders.
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Wealth
How Zhu Yiming Built a 15.9 Billion Dollar Fortune Turning CXMT Into China's Answer to Micron
A Shanghai listing that made ChangXin Memory Technologies the most valuable company on China's onshore market turned its 54 year old chairman, Zhu Yiming, into a 15.9 billion dollar fortune and gave Beijing a homegrown memory chip champion.
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Wealth
This Billionaire Just Made 360 Million Dollars Selling His Psychedelic Company to Eli Lilly
Christian Angermayer bet a decade and 100 million dollars of his own money that psychedelics would go mainstream. Eli Lilly's purchase of AtaiBeckley for 2.8 billion dollars upfront just handed him a roughly 360 million dollar payday.
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Leadership
Jeff Bezos Says the Cure for Work Stress Is Action, Not Overwork
The Amazon founder argues that anxiety is a signal of avoidance, not a sign of too much work. His fix is to read the feeling, take one concrete first step, and pull other people into the problem.
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Wealth
The Coffee Bean Fee That Built an 11 Billion Dollar Payments Fortune
A 500 dollar wire transfer fee on a coffee order set Jack Zhang on the path to Airwallex, the cross border payments company now valued at 11 billion dollars that has made him a fintech billionaire.
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Wealth
MLS's Newest Billionaire Owner Thinks You Can Do Better Than a Sports Team
Peter Mallouk just paid a record price to take over Sporting Kansas City. As one of America's biggest wealth managers, he is also candid that, judged purely as an investment, buying a team is usually a mistake.
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Wealth
How Dr Dre Became Hip-Hop's Second Billionaire
The producer from Compton reached a ten figure fortune not through a single windfall but through years of ownership, a landmark headphones sale, and a talent for turning sound into equity.
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Wealth
The Screw King: How Reinhold Würth Became Germany's Richest Man
His fortune was built not on software or finance but on the bolts and fasteners that hold the industrial world together. Behind the largest German fortune of the moment sit three plain principles applied for seven decades.
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