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In what can only be described as an absolutely STUNNING move, Yvon Chouinard just donated Patagonia to charity. Not part of it. Not a billion dollars. The entire company. From now on, all Patagonia profits will go towards fighting climate change.

When Yvon Chouinard was in his 20s he spent more than six months of each year criss crossing North America and the Alps climbing mountains with his friends and living on about 50 cents a day. Today, Chouinard is the founder of the outdoor gear company Patagonia, which reported $750 million in sales in 2015.

According to sources close to the proposal, Fridman made it in the hopes that he could get the sanctions against him lifted, while he denies making it in the first place.

A decade ago, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos bought their first of what became a two-home Beverly Hills compound. MacKenzie just donated the $55 million property to charity.

Between January 1, 2022 and today, Gautam Adani's net worth has increased more than any other billionaire in the world. His current $140 billion fortune puts Gautam within striking distance of displacing Jeff Bezos as the world's second richest person.

If the pieces end up being as valuable as pre-sale estimates indicate, the sale has the potential to be the biggest one-time public art auction in modern history.

If Warren Buffett wasn't so darned philanthropic, today he would be the richest person in the world.

This was the first time any of the superyachts seized by authorities in response to the invasion of Ukraine have been put up for public auction, following a court order in JP Morgan's favor last month.

Adani has been in the Billionaire's Club since 2008, but aggressive expansion in the fields of energy, media, and transport in the last couple years has seen his fortune grow substantially, to a current net worth of $108 billion.

In what may be a case of incredibly bad timing, Bloomberg is reporting that Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invested approximately $500 million in various Russian energy companies right around the start of the Ukraine invasion in February.

The hunt is on for precious minerals like coal, copper, gold, and zinc, believed to be newly available for mining in the Greenland region and some of which can be used to make batteries for electric cars.

Skoch's time as the official owner of his Airbus A319-100, reportedly worth about $90 million and believed to be somewhere in Kazakhstan, seems to be drawing to a close.

Since her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019 left her with a fortune of almost $40 billion, Scott has been unusually committed to giving huge amounts of that fortune away.

Oceanco, the yacht building firm that is constructing Bezos's nearly completed yacht, has seen it turned into a public relations nightmare due to the bridge idea, which was widely mocked and criticized by both Rotterdam locals and interested people across the world.

100 years ago, a British-Armenian oil explorer forged a deal with several major oil companies to search for oil in what is now Iraq. For his efforts he set aside 5% of all oil found for himself…