Elon Musk’s journey to becoming the world’s first trillionaire will likely be powered by rockets rather than cars, as SpaceX now accounts for nearly two-thirds of the Tesla CEO’s wealth. Musk became the first person ever to top the $800 billion mark this week, with his net worth now around $845 billion, according to Forbes….
Some of Big Tech’s greatest success stories are from college dropouts. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 from his Harvard University dorm room (and later dropped out). Bill Gates also left Harvard and cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. But Jeff Bezos, founder of the world’s largest online retailer Amazon, said Zuckerberg and Gates…
Melinda French Gates has transformed her relatively young Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation into one of America’s largest private foundations almost overnight, in part due to her split with ex-husband Bill Gates. As part of the pair’s high-profile divorce announced in 2021, Gates agreed to make a $7.88 billion donation—one of the largest ever—to French Gates’ private…