Business People

A good number of the celebrities we see today became famous through their work in diverse fields which includes the likes of sports, music, acting, and several other endeavors that are known to garner fans to people who follow those paths. However, we still have some privileged few that...

If the name, Lori Loughlin, was unknown to the mainstream American audience, that has changed since the college admission scandal that rocked several celebrities, including Lori and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli. While Lori had a semblance of fame through her role in the Netflix show, Fuller House, her husband...

Physician, philanthropist, and mega political donor; these are the facets that make up one of the world’s richest women, Miriam Adelson. Married to billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson for 30 years, Ms. Adelson inherited her husband’s whopping fortune when he passed away in January 2021. She is now worth...

When ordinary folks like you and I get a divorce, the impact majorly revolves around the personal effect on the individuals. However, it is a different ballgame when billionaires split as there are billions of dollars on the line and the potentiality of creating new billionaires or decreasing the...

Back in 2016, South African bank Capitec beat out about 99 other banks from around the globe to emerge as the best bank in the world. That feat raised the profile of the South African financial system. It also catapulted the owner of the bank, Michiel le Roux, to...

Being a religious person in today’s increasingly circular world can be fraught with several challenges and one person that can testify to this fact is American business executive, David Green. A native of Emporia, Kansas, Green overcame a poor background to become a billionaire; turning his makeshift arts and...

If you are not acquainted with the yearly roster of billionaires as published by Forbes magazine, you are less likely to be familiar with Mark Cuban’s net worth and your only knowledge of him limited to his charming appearances on the popular ABC show, Shark Tank, but do not...

The name Fabrizio Moreira might not have rang a bell yet, but this young Ecuadorian-American is one to look out for. A burgeoning talent manager/agent, politician, public relations manager, businessman, and international speaker, Mr. Moreira is a man whose groundbreaking works and contributions in these areas have drawn the attention of top public...

Stan Lee was a prolific comic book writer, producer, editor, and entrepreneur who had a net worth of $50 million at the time of his death. He once served as the president and chairman of Marvel Comics having worked his way up from the position of an office assistant. Lee...

What is Kevin O’Leary's net worth? We may know Kevin O’Leary as being quite ruthless on "Shark Tank", but his wealth is quite impressive. He is Donald Trump’s equivalent in Canada. Kevin Kevin O’Leary is an investor, writer, TV personality, journalist, financial commentator and an astute businessman. His net worth is...

Rupert Murdoch and his family are reported to have a net worth of $22.2 billion. Thus, he is ranked among the most influential people in the media industry. Following his inheritance of an Australian publishing firm from his father Keith Murdoch when he was in his early 20s, Rupert...

Reed Hastings has on multiple occasions been described as the man who revolutionized entertainment and the reason is not hard to spot. Thanks to his foresight with regard to the future of movie rental, he founded Netflix and grew it into one of the largest movie rental companies in...

Elon Musk does not receive any salary as the CEO of Tesla. He rather gets stock options tied to performance. There is also the substantial shareholding that he has in the company as well as SpaceX. All these helped his net worth rise from $13.9 billion in March 2017...

Bill Gates first became a billionaire in 1987. 34 years down the line, his net worth has grown to $126 billion meaning that he has made about $125 billion over the past 34 years. A simple division will reveal that the Microsoft founder has consistently earned approximately $3.7 billion...

One reliable way of calculating what Mark Zuckerberg earns in a year is to divide his present net worth by his age. If we do that, you will discover that the Facebook CEO has earned $3.2 billion for each year of his life thus far. Further calculations mean that...

As the CEO of Amazon Inc., Jeff Bezos earns a little above $1.6 million per annum. The remainder of his massive $186 billion net worth, which makes him the richest man in the world, comes from his stockholding in the company that he founded. The renowned techpreneur previously owned...

While the rest of us were busy devising creative ways of stretching our paychecks amidst the covid-19 pandemic, prominent personalities in the tech industry were smiling to the bank. The shutdown necessitated by the pandemic meant that several aspects of human life had to migrate online and this led...

Industries such as tech, real estate, energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment constitute some of the major money-spinners in the world. But another sector that is booming and has made billionaires out of several personalities is the beauty business. The global makeup industry, which is estimated at $523 billion, is...

In 2021, Elon Musk overtook Amazon's Jeff Bezos to become the richest person on the face of planet earth. It is not news that the eccentric South African billionaire is set for a long reign at the top given the ambitious and futuristic plans that he has for his...

An ambitious man of insight, Tim Cook is famed for heading one of the most innovative technology companies in this modern era. Though he took over from Steve Jobs in 2011, not many are aware that the gentleman has actually been running Apple for a very long time and...