A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000) units of a given currency, usually major currencies such as the United States dollar, the euro, or the pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year.
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Airbnb to be bigger than eBay after its long-awaited IPO
Airbnb could soon boast a market value of $42 billion — a little less than active wear darling Lululemon but $6 billion ...
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Elon Musk eclipses Bill Gates to become the world's second richest person
Elon Musk is now worth more than $128 billion, making him the second richest person in the world behind Amazon bald-king ...
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Elon ‘own no home’ Musk sells Gene Wilder’s old pad — 5 properties to go
Musk previously said he'd only sell Gene Wilder's former Bel Air home if it wouldn't be "torn down or lose any [of] its soul." ...
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Tesla stock dives after Elon Musk cools ‘Battery Day’ hype
Elon Musk warned Tesla shareholders not to expect too much from today's Battery Day presentation — and Reddit's most ...
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Musk, Thiel, and Gates: the 3 tech billionaires shaping our world
In the 20th century, politicians’ views of human nature shaped societies. But now, creators of new technologies increasingly ...
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Try to spend Bill Gates' $116B fortune in this online shopping game
Bill Gates is one of the world's richest people, with an estimated net worth exceeding $115 billion. Have you got what it ...
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Has Jeff Bezos ended world hunger? Twitter account skewers Amazon chief's absurd $178B fortune
A 2018 report found solving world hunger would cost $11 billion in extra spending per year. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos just ...
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos just broke the record for the most billions added in a single day
Amazon's stock rallied again this week, causing the fortune of its immortal baldking Jeff Bezos to grow faster than ever ...
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Elon Musk is 55% richer in 2020 — but Jeff Bezos is still tech's billionaire daddy
The wealth of the American billionaire class is up $565 billion since the COVID-19 shutdowns began, but nobody has made more ...
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Bezos and Zuckerberg worth $60B more in two months, thanks to COVID-19
It's true. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Ballmer — the trio of billionaires from Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft — are balling ...
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Reddit's greediest traders debate shorting Tesla ahead of Musk's Joe Rogan interview
Stock traders aren't sure what to do now that Elon Musk paid another visit to the wildly popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. ...
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Elon Musk's luxury homes listed for sale days after 'own no house' tweet
Elon Musk isn't messing about: It appears the maverick billionaire is actually selling at least two of his luxury California ...
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Here's what Elon Musk needs to get his $750M payday from Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is edging closer to a very satisfying payday, which comes as long as the company's stock price continues ...
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The world has less billionaires in 2020, but Jeff Bezos is still the richest
It's been said that the coronavirus pandemic has given nature room to heal, but it's also had an affect on the world's billionaires: ...
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If a Japanese billionaire farted in front of you, what would you say?
This Japanese millionaire is in search of a girlfriend to accompany him on his trip to the moon. But applicants have one ...