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You may know who the richest person in the United States is (Jeff Bezos, not Bill Gates), or even who the wealthiest person in your state is. But do you know who wields the wealth in Iowa or Virginia or Alabama?

Recently, we wrote about octogenarian Jackson Kibor. He's the guy who armed his car with deadly spikes in order to run people off his property. This made me curious, so I dove a bit deeper into Kibor's history and discovered a dude who is still stirring up trouble well into his 80s.

The African nation of Zimbabwe has its very first billionaire. His name is Strive Masiyia and he made his $1.7 billion fortune from a mobile phone company.

Ingvar Kamprad, one of the wealthiest and most fascinating businessmen on the planet, has died at the age of 91. Here's his incredible life story.

Self-made billionaire Warren Buffett was always well ahead of the pack. He started his first "business" when he was only five years old, and

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been in a free fall recently, and the Winklevoss twins' fortunes have plummeted as a result.

China's richest woman is 36-year-old real estate mogu,l Yang Huiyan. She is having one heck of a year so far. She added $6.1 billion to her net worth over just seven days of stock market activity.

Chinese billionaires find themselves in a bit of a conundrum. Chinese billionaires are facing a cash shortage and that is causing a fair number of billionaires to lose their 10 figure fortunes.

After a massive investment from Japanese investment company Softbank, Uber's former CEO has gone from paper billionaire to ACTUAL billionaire.

If this story doesn't motivate you. Nothing will.

The Winklevoss brothers may have raised eyebrows by losing $700 million in the last 48 hours, but the co-founder of Ripple just blew them (and everyone else in the cryptocurrency world) out of the water.

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick claims he's never sold any of his shares in the company…until now.

Surely you've seen ads for or driven past a location of DriveTime. It is the fourth largest used car dealer in the United States. DriveTime is the brainchild of 60-year-old convicted felon Ernest Garcia II.

For years, pipeline baron Kelcy Warren and his company have run unchecked – with no major competitors, the company has snapped up project after project and added to Kelcy's impressive $6.4 billion fortune. And then Kevin Kaiser came along.

The land being preserved thanks to Jack and Laura Dangermond is the Cojo/Jalama Ranch at Point Conception, which can actually be seen from outer space as an inward bend of the California coast.