Billionaires
The leather-jacket-wearing CEO who just made $15 billion in a day
Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993. Now it is the world’s hottest company, and he is on the verge of breaking into an exclusive club.
- by Vernal Galpotthawela, Jack Witzig and Ian King
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Enemies they may be, Taylor Swift and Donald Trump have a lot in common
Billionaires were never popular, but they are almost reflexively reviled today in our time of rising inequality. Yet, here we see the exceptions to the rule.
- by Waleed Aly
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The private chat messages from inside an Australian billionaire’s ‘money machine’
At 28, Edward Craven has built Stake.com into one of the world’s biggest gambling enterprises. But there is another side to its hot streak.
- by Patrick Begley
Gene therapy, blood transfusions, stool monitoring: The Sydneysiders trying to escape death
Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson is convinced he’ll be able to cheat death. His “Don’t Die” movement has hit Australia, and Sydneysiders are signing up to his regime.
- by Amber Schultz
The truck driver who became a billionaire
Over the past six decades, Autry Stephens has worn nearly every hat in the oil industry.
- by Devon Pendleton and Kevin Crowley
The ‘most hated man in America’ turned WeWork into a $72b giant before it fell apart. Now he is back
WeWork founder Adam Neumann had a meteoric rise before he was ousted as the office sharing company spiralled into bankruptcy. Now he has returned.
- by Wyatte Grantham-Phillips
‘Deeply flawed’: Judge quashes Elon Musk’s $78 billion Tesla pay package
The Tesla CEO suffered a stunning rebuke this week when a US judge voided the pay package that helped make him a billionaire many times over and the world’s wealthiest man.
- by Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
Elon Musk says first human has received ‘sci-fi’ brain implant
The billionaire who runs Tesla has claimed that the first human has successfully received a computer brain implant.
- by Alex Singleton
The anti-Andrew Tate: How MrBeast turned niceness into a $150m YouTube empire
MrBeast is top talent in both a new and old-school way – and billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos both want the 25-year-old YouTuber for their platforms.
- by Stephen Armstrong
Billionaire pleads guilty in insider trading case with a link to an Australian giant
Joe Lewis admitted to passing inside information to his private pilots and girlfriend, putting a black mark on the 86-year-old’s spectacular rise to become one of Britain’s richest men.
- by Ava Benny-Morrison
The secretive lab where billionaires are spending a fortune hunting for the next big thing
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hard at work.
- by Rob Copeland