Articles Written by Paula Wilson

Instead of following Mark Zuckerberg to California, Joe Green listened to his dad and stayed at Harvard. He chose… poorly.

R&B musician Richard Berry wrote "Louie Louie", AKA the most recorded rock song of all time. He sold his rights for $750 and ended up homeless until something amazing happened…

Over the last 30 years, Vince McMahon has completely revolutionized modern television sporting events. He's also earned himself an astonishing fortune.

Tyler Perry suffered so much abuse as a child that he actually attempted suicide while he was still a kid. He took his pain and turned it into a $600 million entertainment empire. Here's his story.

What's The Most Valuable Company In History? Apple? Google? Maybe Exxon? These would all be very good guesses, but they don't even scratch the surface compared to one company…

These 10 families learned about the dark side of being wealthy, when family members were kidnapped and held for ransom.

Carlos Lehder transformed himself from a humble car smuggler to one of the richest and most powerful cocaine dealers in history. He owned a private island and a fleet of airplanes. And it all started from a chance conversation with his prison cellmate: George Jung.

George Jung is the man who invented the marketplace for mass scale cocaine production, distribution and consumption. This is his crazy real-life story…

Lonnie Johnson is a nuclear engineer who worked on NASA's missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. But none of those missions matter because Lonnie also happens to be the inventor of a little toy called The Super Soaker.

Doctors Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin saved an entire generation from horrors of Polio. But more impressively, they both decided not to patent their creations and therefore forfeited billions in royalties.