Billionaires
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Forbes Billionaires 2023 List: Meet Jimmy Rane, the Yella Fella of Alabama, the US state's only billionaire
Jimmy Rane took over a tiny treated-lumber business and used his showman flair for marketing to transform it into a major player. The Yella Fella of Abbeville is now Alabama's only billionaire—and the lumberyard will never be the same
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Capri Global's Rajesh Sharma wants to tap into India's fintech revolution. Here's how
How Rajesh Sharma rebuilt his empire and found his way to the Billionaires list
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From documentary filmmaker to turning around a renewables company: Meet Poland's richest woman, Dominika Kulczyk
Since Kulczyk rescued it, Polenergia has kept building wind farms (complying with the Polish law), expanded into solar and is now exploring green hydrogen
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Forbes World's Billionaires 2023: Larry Tanenbaum to LeBron James, sports billionaires on the list
The business of sports is booming, with teams in several leagues changing hands for record prices and athletes pulling in more than ever, both on and off the field. There are 39 billionaires whose wealth comes primarily from sports, up from 16 a decade ago, including a dozen newcomers over the past year. Here are some of the most notable names from the Forbes Billionaires List 2023
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How Jimmy Buffet spun rock anthems into a $1 billion financial and lifestyle empire
Buffett has built a career—and a 10-figure fortune—distilling carefree island vibes into hit songs, merchandise, a chain of restaurants, resorts, even gated communities
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Will Truth Social join the graveyard of other Trump ventures?
Truth Social started off on a high, with the former US President frowning over his Twitter ban and his followers being gung-ho about a conservative Twitter. However, the scenario has changed drastically now, throwing the survival and the very necessity of the platform into question
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A look at the World's billionaires: The planet now has 2,640 billionaires
While the number of billionaires in the world and their cumulative wealth has marginally reduced, women are still drastically underrepresented
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How Mukesh Ambani is aiming to strengthen his businesses for the next decade—from telecom to retail and financial services
RIL chairman's Reliance Industries would be worth more individually than the sum of its parts. Here's why
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Yogesh Kothari: A chemist at heart built Alkyl Amines with worldwide competitive edge
Yogesh Kothari's Alkyl Amines is a reflection of his passion for chemistry
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Swimming against the tide: Technocrat Ashwin Desai's journey to the billionaires club
Ashwin Desai's specialty chemicals company Aether Industries, had a spectacular rally on the bourses, resulting in the 72-year-old entering the billionaires' club. At heart though, he's still a core engineer or a technician—a technocrat
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Inside the shaken house of Adani
Amid a massive stock sell-off and falling stock prices of its companies following the Hindenburg report, Adani Enterprises is looking for alternative options to raise funds so that its capex plans are not hit. Analysts say the task may not be easy and it will be difficult to justify the steep valuations