Zara's billionaire founder – one of the world's richest people – has just bought a $232 million luxury Chicago apartment tower

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Founder and chairman of the Inditex fashion group Amancio Ortega stands at the end of the 32nd edition of the A Coruna International Show Jumping competition at the Casas Novas Equestrian Centre in Arteixo, on July 31, 2016.
Amancio Ortega, the founder of Zara parent company Inditex.

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Mark Cuban passed on Uber when it was worth $10 million or less. He missed out on billions of dollars in profits.

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Mark Cuban.

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Boaz Weinstein, Bill Ackman, and Marc Lasry jointly bid for the hedge fund Sculptor Capital - but the proposal could get rejected

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Saba Capital founder Boaz Weinstein thinks there's money to be made in closed-end funds, which are ignored by Wall Street.

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Bill Gates says he didn't find school 'interesting' and was 'lazy' at math when he was young

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Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.

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Russia's so desperate to get its billionaires and their massive wealth back that it just threatened to seize the assets of an oligarch worth $13 billion

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Andrey Melnichenko is worth $13 billion.

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The story behind Uline, the packaging powerhouse whose reclusive billionaire owners use their fortune to influence American politics

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Close-up of logo for shipping and logistics supply company Uline on packing tape dispenser, San Ramon, California, June 18, 2020.
Uline provides the essential – and often invisible – products that small and large businesses need every day, and it rakes in an estimated $6.1 billion in sales per year.

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Stocks will charge higher as economic fears fade and bears give up, Bill Miller says

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Bill Miller.

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An $11 trillion wealth wipeout has set the world back for the first time since 2008, thanks to a trifecta of high inflation, interest rates, and currency declines

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U.S. dollar notes are seen in this picture illustration

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A 200% EV IPO bonanza has boosted the wealth of Vietnam's wealthiest person eightfold to over $44 billion

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VinFast CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy speaks to VinGroup founder and Chairman Pham Nhat Vuong at a VinFast event in Nha Trang, Vietnam April 9, 2022.
VinFast CEO Le Thi Thu Thuy (left) speaks to VinGroup founder and Chairman Pham Nhat Vuong.

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'Bond King' Bill Gross warns stocks are dangerously overvalued — and predicts an economic slump

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Bill Gross.

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