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Mike Bloomberg
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Billionaire Mike Bloomberg was fired after dedicating 15 years of his career to Salomon Brothers—the next morning, he founded his media empire

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September 23, 2025
Yvon Chouinard
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Patagonia founder lived on $1 a day and cat food before making it—when he hit billionaire status, he was so angry he gave away his $3 billion company

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September 22, 2025
Insomnia Cookies founder and CEO Seth Berkowitz
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Insomnia Cookies’ CEO runs a sweets empire worth $350 million—but as a college junior he delivered cookies across campus at 2 a.m.

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September 21, 2025
Ramp founder Eric Glyman: How I built a $22.5 billion startup in 2,367 days
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Ramp founder Eric Glyman: How I built a $22.5 billion startup in 2,367 days

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September 19, 2025
At left, CEO of Scale A.I. Alexandr Wang testifies during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence, as other people watch him, on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC
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Meta’s 28-year-old billionaire prodigy says the next Bill Gates will be a 13-year-old who is ‘vibe coding’ right now

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September 19, 2025
Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison
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$34 billion was wiped from Larry Ellison’s net worth days after briefly becoming the world’s richest as ‘AI bubble’ fears grow

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September 18, 2025
Will Shu
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Deliveroo CEO Will Shu turned 100-hour weeks on Wall Street into a $4 billion food empire. Now he’s cashing out with $250 million

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September 18, 2025
Phoebe Gates
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Bill and Melinda French Gates gave their Gen Z daughter this piece of business advice before she launched her own $8 million startup

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September 17, 2025
Sara Blakely
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Spanx billionaire founder kept the brand a secret—even from family—for a year. If she hadn’t, she says she’d probably still be selling fax machines

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September 16, 2025
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
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The founders who cashed out on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram—and missed out on becoming today’s billionaires

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September 13, 2025
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive officer and co-founder of Klarna
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Klarna’s $17 billion IPO has just turned 40 staffers into overnight millionaires—while Nvidia, Canva, and Palantir workers are seeing similar gains

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September 11, 2025
YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup
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YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup

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September 8, 2025
Jensen Huang signs with a marker.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sent research reports on Sundays to SoundHound’s CEO for feedback—an unusual ritual that helped grow the $5 billion AI firm

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September 5, 2025
Big Dave's Cheesesteaks CEO and founder Derrick Hayes
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Multimillion-dollar restaurant CEO splurged on Range Rovers and McLarens—but now he’s ‘mindful’ about spending because the economy is unpredictable

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September 5, 2025
Why Zocdoc made one of its founders CAIO: ‘You have a little bit more political capital’
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Why Zocdoc made one of its founders CAIO: ‘You have a little bit more political capital’

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September 3, 2025

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