Back when Mark Cuban was broke and sleeping on a beer-stained floor with five roommates, he probably didn't seem like the guy who'd one day own the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, sell his startup to Yahoo for $5.7 billion, and become a household name for telling people to stop drinking lattes. But in his eyes, that scrappy version of himself was already on the right track. Cuban rolled into Dallas three weeks before his 24th birthday in a busted-up Fiat X1/9 leaking oil, rocking a hole in the

"Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?" As economic discontent grows throughout the world, the world’s techno billionaires are heading for the promised land. But first, they’ll have to build it. At the “Network State Conference” held in Singapore earlier in October, former Coinbase chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan shared his vision for the “ultimate exit” by tech industry elites from the “failing” United States. “I think it’s fair to say, in 2025, we have a movement,”

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December 6, 2025, 3:29 PM ET In 2025, 91 heirs inherited a record $297.8 billion, up 36% from 2024, UBS said. Nearly $300 billion was inherited this year as the Great Wealth Transfer picks up speed, showering family members with immense windfalls. According to the latest UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report, 91 heirs inherited a record-high $297.8 billion in 2025, up 36% from a year ago despite fewer inheritors. “These heirs are proof of a multiyear wealth transfer that’s intensifying,” said

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The late real estate billionaire Sam Zell said he never thought about retiring or taking vacations because he enjoyed his work. Zell, who built a fortune buying distressed real estate, said on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast in March 2020 that he always tried to avoid doing anything he didn't like. "I've loved everything," Zell said. "I love getting up in the morning. I never found myself getting up in the morning and saying, ‘Oh, my God, I've got to go do this again.' I've tried very hard to

Australia stands to benefit from a mega inheritance wave as Asia's wealthy families prepare to transfer unprecedented fortunes to their mobile heirs.

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One year into the second Trump presidency, it’s pretty clear that his regime’s operating principle is not really “America First” but “Trump First.”

Joe Lonsdale has generated significant backlash after saying public executions would deter violent criminals.

Luana Lopes Lara, cofounder of the Kalshi prediction market, has become the world's youngest self-made female billionaire at age 29. Lopes Lara, who owns 12% of the startup now valued at $11 billion, takes the title from Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo, 31, who overtook Taylor Swift this pas

The CEO of Citadel moved his headquarters to the south in 2022 and is optimistic about one of Florida's biggest cities.