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Startups & Venture
Meet the venture capital and crypto billionaires quietly bankrolling the fight against California’s wealth tax
By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 18, 2026
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Success
A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he’s a billionaire who says the American Dream isn’t dead
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 18, 2026
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Politics
California’s billionaires just poured $40 million into blocking a wealth tax that threatens to force them to pay 5% of their net worth
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezAugust 18, 2026
U.S. businessman Mark Cuban
Economy
‘Only idiot startup founders stay in Cali’: Mark Cuban rips billionaire tax—and opens a rift inside the Democratic Party
By Joshua HongAugust 17, 2026
Entrepreneur James Dacombe
Success
Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his startup at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe
By Emma BurleighAugust 17, 2026
Jeffrey Sprecher, President and Founder, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange
Success
Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giant
By Emma BurleighAugust 16, 2026
$38 billion Twilio CEO wakes at 4:30 a.m., works Sundays, and runs laps around his house between meetings to blow off steam
Success
$38 billion Twilio CEO wakes at 4:30 a.m., works Sundays, and runs laps around his house between meetings to blow off steam
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 15, 2026
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Commentary
AI is creating a new wave of philanthropists. The system they’re walking into is broken
By Nick Allardice and David GoldbergAugust 15, 2026
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Success
Elon Musk’s $158 billion Tesla pay was 2.5 million times his workers’ salary last year—it’s ‘unlike anything we have seen before,’ exec pay watch says
By Emma BurleighAugust 14, 2026
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Commentary
Philanthropy’s best-kept secret: the more you have, the less you’re required to give
By Vandana ArcotAugust 14, 2026
Billionaire Joshua Kushner just bought the Lakers for $12.5 billion—OpenAI’s Sam Altman once said he ‘doesn’t care’ what others think
Success
Billionaire Joshua Kushner just bought the Lakers for $12.5 billion—OpenAI’s Sam Altman once said he ‘doesn’t care’ what others think
By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 14, 2026
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Success
Malcolm Gladwell would rather have a dad who makes $100,000 than $1 billion: Extreme wealth is ‘quite crippling to your motivation’
By Preston ForeAugust 13, 2026
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Success
Elon Musk says AI will make money disappear. But crypto billionaire Michael Saylor says he’s wrong for one key reason: ‘We’re status-oriented animals’
By Preston ForeAugust 12, 2026
Sergey Brin
North America
Google cofounder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses
By Sasha RogelbergAugust 11, 2026
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Success
How a book that inspired Warren Buffett and a $14,000 side hustle helped billionaire Bill Ackman get started as an investor
By Emma BurleighAugust 11, 2026
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The heiress of $10 billion Perdue Farms and the $12 billion Sheraton Hotels empire wore hand-me-downs, still rides the subway, and flies economyplaceholder alt text
By Emma BurleighAugust 30, 2026
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Richard Branson double-booked his own job interview. The candidate stuck in traffic with him for 2.5 hours is now Virgin's CEOplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeAugust 29, 2026
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IBM’s CEO disagrees with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s disdain for texting in meetings: ‘Telling people they can't use their technology would be weird’placeholder alt text
By Preston ForeAugust 29, 2026
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