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How did the planet's richest people make their billions? From celebrities and secretive CEOs to spor

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Total: 46

Carlos Slim Helú's financial might has led some people to nickname his native Mexico ‘Slimlandia’. H

Roman Abramovich was known as the "stealth oligarch" before he stepped into the limelight as Chelsea

Mukesh Ambani caught the world’s attention when he forked out $600m on his son’s wedding, including

Metal man and football fan Patrice Motsepe rose out of post-apartheid South Africa to become the cou

Jack Ma is the king of ecommerce in China. Nicknamed 'Daddy Ma', the former school teacher even appe

The story of how Yvon Chouinard, a reluctant billionaire who only wanted to climb and surf, harnesse

Whitney Wolfe Herd, the “queen of the swipes”, launched a female-led dating app after a public scand

Industrialist Aliko Dangote is known as a mild-mannered cement tycoon who often drives himself to bu

How is freshly minted billionaire Sam Altman shaping our future through his company OpenAI and ChatG

How did an unassuming software engineer become one of the richest people on the planet? This is the

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw built a pharmaceutical empire after failing to get a job brewing beer. She also

George Soros escaped Nazi occupation in Hungary, before becoming one of the most successful investor

Jerry Seinfeld has a life-long obsession with jokes, but his smash hit sitcom turned the New York st

How did Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson become one of only four filmmakers worth a billion

How a communist mime artist became the billionaire boss of a luxury fashion house. Miuccia Prada cha

By founding Google, tech titan Sergey Brin helped shape the internet. He also got very, very rich, a

Golfing superstardom made him incredibly rich. Personal disasters nearly took it all away. How did T

How one social media site birthed an empire. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.BBC business

From The Exorcist to owning 400 companies, how music sent the Virgin entrepreneur into space. He's a

He's spent a billion on Manchester United, but how did Jim Ratcliffe become a billionaire?BBC busine