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In April, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced new sanctions against 17 senior officials in the Russian government, seven Russian oligarchs, and the 12 companies those billionaires own or control.

Today, more than ever, technology startups are dominating the marketplace. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb becoming household names and are creating massive wealth for their founders.

Craigslist has made 65-year-old Craig Newmark a billionaire. Now, 23 years later, Newmark is still giving back. He's become a major philanthropist.

Not long ago, Eike Batista was the richest person in Brazil and the seventh richest person on the planet, with a net worth of $35 billion. He was then sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Have you heard of the Wish app? It's kind of genius. For ridiculously cheap you can get anything from costume jewelry to home accessories to clothing and beyond. I'm apparently not the only one who does this because Wish has become a Silicon Valley unicorn with an $8.5 billion valuation.

In April, WhatsApp's Jan Koum announced that he planned to leave Facebook. By leaving, he could have left $1 billion of shares on the table by leaving before they vest. Koum is no dummy. He's still showing up to the Facebook office. Koum is participating in the practice of resting and vesting.

When Elon Musk tweets, the stock market reacts. Recently, the Tesla and SpaceX chief sent out a 61 character long tweet and POOF! he was suddenly $1.4 billion richer.

Let's focus on how to become a billionaire. It's not easy, but there are paths to it that can be followed if you are determined, focused, and, let's face it, lucky. Only about 5,700 people in the whole world are worth more than $500 million. Billionaires are even rarer.

Div Turakhia became one of India's youngest self-made billionaires in 2016 when he sold Media.net, his ad tech startup for $900 million. That wasn't the now 36-year-old's first big success, either.

William Wrigley Jr. II helped sell his family's business to Mars Inc. back in 2008. Now, he's got a new business. He recently led a $65 million investment round for the Georgia based medical marijuana company Surterra Wellness.

Billionaire Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke is about to become the sole shareholder of Arsenal football club after minority shareholder Alisher Usmanov accepted Kroenke's offer to buy his 30% stake in the team

When I'm a billionaire, I'm gonna party in Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs and a younger girlfriend… is something most people say jokingly. Not Henry Nicholas!

Warren Buffett's well known "Giving Pledge" appeals to billionaires' sense of altruism, but it also appeals to their desire for flexibility in signing such

Right when NASCAR is desperately trying to find a buyer, CEO and family leader Brian France gets a DUI and drug arrest.

Billionaire and former fiancé of Mariah Carey James Packer has resigned from the directorships of 22 companies in Australia over the past few weeks