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Lucy Peng is the highest powered woman at e-commerce giant Alibaba and with good reason – she's the co-founder. Over the past 20 years, she's played a pivotal role in steering the company she founded with Jack Ma.

West first talked about his idea for a "city of the future" somewhere in Haiti on his recent interview with Joe Rogan, of which you've probably already seen clips from, if you spend any time on the internet at all.

The richest people in Detroit come from several different industries. One is in home loans, another is in pizza, one is the granddaughter of Henry Ford, while another originated car loans for people with bad credit.

Liz and Dick Uihlein are influential Republican donors. They rank fourth on the list of people who've donated the most to political campaigns during the 2020 election cycle. Who are they and how'd they get rich enough to spend more than $65 million on politics?

The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $1 billion pledge towards that work over the next three years, a pledge that is the largest in the history of the foundation, which stretches back more than a century.

The gift is being made through Smith's Fund II Foundation, and will launch across 11 HBCUs that will be named sometime before the end of November, the press release says.

Over the past year, most of which has included battling COVID-19, China has created 257 brand new billionaires. Overall, there are 878 billionaires in China and they've added $1.5 trillion to their wealth over the past year.

If you're on social media, you've probably heard of The Lincoln Project. It's a relatively new super-PAC run by a number of prominent former Republican consultants who are hoping to defeat Donald Trump. At least 15 billionaires have donated to this super-PAC.

Schadenfreude is such a great word. When it comes to WeWork founder Adam Neumann and his shenanigans, we definitely feel some schadenfreude in learning that his $185 million consulting deal with WeWork was canceled.

Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, according to the Justice Department.

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. The New York City metro area is home to 23 million people. New York City is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.

The Dalio Center for Health Justice will be "dedicated to understanding and improving health equity, addressing health justice, and driving action that results in measurable improvements in health outcomes for all."

Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Bal Harbour, and other ritzy Miami enclaves regularly make the list of the most expensive zip codes in the U.S. It's no surprise then, that 22 billionaires call the Miami area home.

Seattle is the northernmost large city in the U.S., located just about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. It's also home to 10 billionaires – most notably Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates – the two richest people on the planet. Is it something in the water there?

Boston is the most populous city in Massachusetts with 696,600 people. The Greater Boston metro area is home to 4.8 million people. If you expand it out to the larger commuting area, it is home to 8.2 million people. 13 of those people are billionaires.