Billionaire Timothy Mellon donates $130M to pay troops/ Image credit: File Timothy Mellon, the reclusive billionaire heir to the Mellon banking fortune, has made headlines after donating $130 million to ensure U.S. troops continue receiving their salaries during the government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025. Unmasking Timothy Mellon The mystery donor who provided […]
At 25, British entrepreneur James Dacombe has joined a rare group of young founders whose fortunes have crossed the billion-dollar mark before most people have settled into a career. The North Yorkshire-born programmer left school at 17 to focus on CoMind, the brain-technology company he had started as a teenager, choosing a path far removed […]
Steve Jobs’ billionaire widow, Laurene, who now spends summers sailing the high seas from the Mediterranean to Australia on her $120 million superyacht The early life of billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs was very different from the immense wealth she enjoys today. While she now spends her summers travelling from the Mediterranean to Australia aboard […]
Billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison owns a $38 million private jet and previusly owned a $490 million megayacht Tech tycoon Larry Ellison once waged a relentless two-year legal battle against the city of San Jose just to secure a midnight landing slot for his private jet. The billionaire was willing to fight a lengthy court […]
One Walmart heiress rules the sea aboard a $300 million megayacht, while her billionaire older sister commands a Texas ranch 13 times the land area of Washington, D.C., where helicopters herd cattle and private roads disappear into the horizon. The Walton family is no stranger to extraordinary wealth, but two billionaire sisters have chosen very […]
The rivalry between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has officially reached the Moon. NASA announced on Tuesday that it had selected Bezos’s Blue Origin to carry out the first in a planned series of three uncrewed lunar missions aimed at preparing for a future Moon base, handing the company a contract worth about $230M. The […]
The next few years are expected to redraw parts of the global wealth map in ways that don’t always match familiar economic narratives. Some of the fastest movement in billionaire populations is forecast outside the usual Western centres, with shifts tied to capital inflows, policy changes, tech expansion, and regional investment cycles. A few countries […]
For most of his life, Chuck Feeney looked nothing like a billionaire. He flew economy class, wore inexpensive clothes, carried papers in plastic bags, and lived in rented apartments instead of sprawling mansions. Strangers passing him in airports would never have guessed that he was one of the richest men in the world. Yet behind […]
At the age of 22, most people are still trying to complete university, secure their first stable job, or decide what they actually want to do in life. That is why the story of Surya Midha has attracted so much global attention. The Indian-origin entrepreneur reportedly became one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires after […]
At the age of 22, most people are still trying to complete university, secure their first stable job, or decide what they actually want to do in life. That is why the story of Surya Midha has attracted so much global attention. The Indian-origin entrepreneur reportedly became one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires after […]
