Billionaire

In a true "mop to riches" story, Lee Su-jin, the founder of Korea-based hotel booking app Yanolja, rose from humble beginnings as a motel janitor to become a billionaire.  Lee's journey began in the early 2000s when he took on the role of a janitor at a small motel in Seoul, South Korea. Born...

A new study has revealed that nearly one-third of the world's billionaires reside in 16 cities. According to the Wealth-X's Billionaire Census report, 29% of the world's 3,194 wealthiest people, whose collective net worth totals $11.1 trillion, live in a handful of...

On Sunday (Feb. 12), superstar pop singer Rihanna will make her highly anticipated stage comeback as the halftime performer for Super Bowl LVII. The singer's show will light up State Farm Stadium, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, in between the championship game featuring the Kansas City Chiefs...

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio praised Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) history for the past 12 years but has a warning for investors. What Happened: Dalio shared his views on the performance of Bitcoin over the past few years, calling it “amazing,” in an interview with CNBC....

A Chinese billionaire, formerly one of the country's wealthiest businessmen and once the second-richest person in Asia, has seen his fortune drop by 93%. The chairman of real estate developer China's Evergrande Group, Hui Ka Yan, was worth $42 billion in 2017 and is now...

Baron Capital Investments has more than $39 billion in assets under management and its top investment in its focused growth fund is Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), accounting for roughly 22.3%. Since founding Baron Capital in 1982, Ron Baron, CEO and manager of the funds had been heavily...

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) blockchain,  recently said on a Twitter post that he is no longer a billionaire.  Last year, 28-year-old Buterin became the world’s youngest crypto billionaire, as Ethereum had a market capitalization of $376 billion...