Phoebe Liu is a Forbes reporter who writes about the world's richest people with a focus on tech and philanthropy and works on Forbes’ flagship Forbes 400 and World's Billionaires lists. Recently, she wrote about Sam Altman's investments, Elon Musk's billionaire investor
Wedding Protesters Say Bezos Should Pay More Tax. Here’s How Much He Likely Did Pay
Ahead of his Venice wedding, protesters called for the billionaire Amazon founder to pay more taxes. Here’s our estimate of how much tax Bezos has likely been paying—and what he’s done to lower his bill.
How A Nasty Breakup, A Forced Auction, A Move To Puerto Rico And AI Made This Founder A Billionaire
TransPerfect's cofounder Phil Shawe bought out his former partner's half of their translation firm in 2018. Here’s how he became a billionaire.
Jeff Bezos Is Getting A New Neighbor At Miami’s “Billionaire Bunker”
An empty 1.8 acre lot on Indian Creek island just sold for a record-setting amount of more than $100 million–providing a fat return for the seller, a German developer.
Mega Funding Round Makes Anduril Cofounder A Billionaire
The recent funding round led by Founders Fund valued the hot military startup at $30 billion – and made its chairman Trae Stephens the latest defense tech billionaire.
Meet Venture Capital’s First Woman Billionaire
The Indonesian immigrant, former figure skater and early Facebook investor is America’s first and only billionaire female venture capitalist.
Three-Quarters Of Surveyed Billionaires Are Already Using AI
Forbes surveyed billionaires on our World’s Billionaires List (average age: 66) to find out how they’ve incorporated the technology.
Where Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Is Putting His New $700 Million Charitable Gift
The world’s eighth-richest person and the biggest individual donor to research on Parkinson’s disease just gave a valuable sliver of his Alphabet shares to charitable entities that fund healthcare research and treatments.
Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Set To Become A Billionaire Thanks To Open AI Deal
The all-stock deal with OpenAI values Ive’s AI hardware startup io at $6.5 billion—and is set to be a major windfall for the man who designed the iPhone.
Napster Is Back—As Mysterious $15 Billion Upstart Rebrands As An AI Outfit
Florida-based metaverse startup Infinite Reality, which claimed to have raised one of this year’s largest funding rounds, has rebranded itself and promised investors a big payout starting in June.
Questions Remain As This Tech Startup Announces ID Of Its $3 Billion Investor
The Florida-based company boasted for months that it raised more than $3 billion from a sole anonymous investor. It finally named its backer, a family with ties to the Mets and reportedly Bernie Madoff—one hour after Forbes’ investigation into the obscure company.