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A year ago Travis Kalanick sold basically his entire stake in the company he co-founded, Uber. For a little while that looked like a genius move. Today… not so much.

Billionaire Masayoshi Son of SoftBank is stockpiling cash to prepare for a worst-case scenario because he believes the coronavirus will continue to adversely affect companies in the next few months.

The Guinness family just can't catch a break. Sure, they are the billionaire heirs and heiresses of the famous beer, but man oh man there seems to be a curse on their family. Over the years one family member after another has died in strange and unusual ways.

Feeding America is "the largest charitable food assistance network in the U.S.," but MJ himself is quoted on his intent for his pledge to go towards Chicago and the Carolinas.

Just a week after jumping Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has now jumped Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world for the first time.

It was just announced that the world's largest candymaker, Mars, will acquire Kind, the maker of healthy snack bars in a deal that values Kind at $5 billion. Daniel Lubetzky founded Kind in 2004.

The billionaire Sackler family has been in the news a lot lately. They are the family behind Purdue Pharma the company behind OxyContin. The Sacklers are also known for their contributions to philanthropy and their massive real estate portfolio.

Back in March, billionaire investor Bill Ackman made a decision: He paid $27 million to buy credit defaults and turned that into a profit of $3.6 billion. Now, he's doing it again. When news broke about an effective Covid-19 vaccine, Ackman placed a similar bet.

Nothing about current President Donald Trump's failure to secure reelection has been exactly typical. But one aspect of a typical post-presidency is reportedly right on schedule: the post-presidency book deal.

When Pfizer announced the positive results of the phase three trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, stocks soared. The vaccine appears to be 90% effective in limited trials against the coronavirus.

If you've always dreamed of living steps from the ocean in Malibu and have $24.5 million lying around, have we got the house for you! Vista Equity billionaire Robert F. Smith is selling his home on Malibu's exclusive Carbon Beach.

The announcement by the S&P 500 that it was adding Tesla to its ranks caused the company's stock to jump almost 15 percent, which in turn caused Musk's personal net worth to jump by an impressive $15 billion.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is looking to leave the U.S. He and his family are not only trying to immigrate to Cyprus, but also to become citizens of the European country

The Winklevosses bought about $11 million worth of bitcoins back in 2013, going on to start their own cryptocurrency exchange called Gemini Trust Co.

The pandemic has us all housebound and our clothing of choice overwhelmingly skews towards athleisure these days. So it's weird to talk about people and companies in the fashion space who are doing well this year. It's the manufacturers that spin cotton thread into clothing that are doing well in the pandemic.