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May 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm

Len Blavatnik made his first billions in the country he’d left after college

The foundation of Blavatnik's fortune was mostly laid in the "aluminum wars" in 1990s Russia, where he put his Harvard MBA to work.

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Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, left, and Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder.
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Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder om 2017. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

March 19, 2019 at 4:20 pm

Bill Gates joins Jeff Bezos in the $100 billion club

Microsoft co-founder Gates, with a fortune valued at $100 billion, and Amazon CEO Bezos, now worth $145.6 billion, are the only people in the world...

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Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks at an event in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer

January 24, 2019 at 4:56 pm

Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax would cost Jeff Bezos $4.1 billion in first year

The Amazon founder and CEO and the other 174 Americans on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, would collectively...

August 12, 2018 at 5:00 pm

‘Fortnite’ phenomenon turns ‘workaholic’ game developer into billionaire

Tim Sweeney started Epic Games in his parents’ basement 27 years ago, and his astute business moves — including giving away its latest hit game...

FILE – In this Monday, July 14, 2014 file picture, Serge Dassault, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Group, attends the traditional Bastille Day parade in Paris. French business executive Serge Dassault, a top aviation and arms industrialist, has died in his Paris office. He was 93. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent, Pool, File) PAR501 PAR501

May 28, 2018 at 12:02 pm

Serge Dassault, patriarch of French aircraft empire, dies at 93

A son of aviation legend Marcel Dassault, Serge Dassault forged a name outside his father’s shadow as a fierce guardian of the family businesses and...