Billionaires
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27 years and $203 billion later, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos started Amazon in the garage of his home in Seattle. A behemoth that contains ecommerce, cloud computing, and much more, Amazon's reins are going to Andy Jassy. Here's a look at Bezos' timeline from a high school in Miami to sub-orbital space
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How A Velumani, a landless farmer's son, built Thyrocare into a billion-dollar behemoth before a surprise sell-off
The deal with PharmEasy, India's first e-pharmacy unicorn, will give Thyrocare an opening into B2C business and its founder an investing foray into the burgeoning healthtech sector
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Being an old-school fundamentals guy in the era of Amazon, Tesla, GameStop and Bitcoin
Growth, momentum and investor psychology are the most important drivers of success on Wall Street today. But at 85, street legend Carl Icahn is one of the last remaining OG corporate raiders who still like asset- and cash-rich companies in need of a shake-up
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The real problem is of unequal opportunities: Maitreesh Ghatak
It leads to an uneven distribution of gains, of growth and limited upward mobility. The thrust of our development policy initiatives should focus on how to deal with that, Indian economist and a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, writes
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Philanthropy should be humble, but not modest: Rohini Nilekani
Apart from building a flexible and resilient framework for the future, philanthropists, civil society and the government must work in tandem so that every rupee is absorbed on the ground
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Building a cannabis company without betting on getting customers high
Billionaire Beau Wrigley is building his cannabis company, Parallel, to be bigger than his family's chewing gum business
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Corporate cryptomania: Bitcoin catches the C-suite gaze
Up 300 percent in 2020, bitcoin is suddenly getting respect in the C-suite. Here's how PayPal, Square and the 48 other big companies on Forbes's third annual Blockchain 50 are outpacing their competition using bitcoin and the underlying blockchain
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Sanjay Agarwal: Building ground up for the hinterland
With a net worth of $1.3 billion, Sanjay Agarwal debuts on Forbes's list of world's billionaires. His AU Small Finance Bank aims to be counted
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How David Velez built no-fee Nubank in Brazil into the most valuable digital bank in the world
David Vélez set out to kill off the fat fees and lousy service of Brazil's big banks. The operation succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: Today, his no-fee Nubank is the most valuable digital bank in the world, with 35 million customers—and he's gunning for more
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Judy Faulkner is the pioneer of electronic health records. In the Covid-19 era, competition is catching up
The billionaire founder of Epic Systems, pioneered—then dominated—electronic medical records. She's been the industry's leading actor for decades, but now the pandemic is fuelling a digital health care race that may finally cost her the spotlight
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Winklevoss Brothers: They say Facebook was their idea but they lost the battle for ownership. Now they are bitcoin billionaires
After losing an epic battle with Mark Zuckerberg over ownership of Facebook and being shunned in Silicon Valley, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are back—this time as budding bitcoin billionaires at the centre of the future of money, the creative economy and quite possibly a new operating model for Big Tech itself