Larry Fink: the undisputed king of Wall Street
Larry Fink: the undisputed king of Wall Street
Larry Fink survived two big financial crises and went on to build a massive asset manager, doing for investing what Henry Ford did for cars. He has hi…
23 Oct 2021
Bernard Tapie: the man with a thousand lives
Bernard Tapie: the man with a thousand lives
Bernard Tapie, who has died aged 78, was a colourful French entrepreneur, star of screen and stage, politician, sports icon, press baron and convicted…
10 Oct 2021
Xu Jiayin: the tycoon behind Evergrande
Xu Jiayin: the tycoon behind Evergrande
Xu Jiayin became a wheeler-dealer in China’s muddled transition to capitalism and his connections helped him to enormous riches. Now, he seems to have…
2 Oct 2021
The legacy of Angela Merkel
The legacy of Angela Merkel
German leader Angela Merkel is leaving office to spend more time with her family after 16 years at the helm. But what has she got to show for it?
1 Oct 2021
Clive Sinclair: the father of the home computer
Clive Sinclair: the father of the home computer
Clive Sinclair was a serial inventor and visionary whose output also included the prototype electric car. His other interests included poetry, maratho…
27 Sep 2021
Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski: fintech innovator gunning for the banks
Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski: fintech innovator gunning for the banks
Sebastian Siemiatkowski’s Klarna app allows customers to buy now, pay later, without racking up interest charges. He’s excited about the future. Regul…
12 Sep 2021
Pedro Castillo: leftist outsider who rode to power in Peru
Pedro Castillo: leftist outsider who rode to power in Peru
Pedro Castillo amassed support among the left-behind as a trade-union leader before riding to power in this year’s presidential race. What has the cou…
7 Sep 2021
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Gabe Plotkin and the online mob’s unfinished business
Gabe Plotkin and the online mob’s unfinished business
A social-media pile-on nearly wiped out hedge funder Gabe Plotkin back in January. The fight is not over yet.
31 Aug 2021
Nigel Rudd: Sir Sell-out’s latest offer may be his last
Nigel Rudd: Sir Sell-out’s latest offer may be his last
An industry joke has it that Nigel Rudd’s businesses are always a buy because he’ll soon be selling up. His latest deal is likely to be his swansong.
22 Aug 2021
Reese Witherspoon: the dork who became a media mogul
Reese Witherspoon: the dork who became a media mogul
A decade ago, Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was in the “romcom doldrums”. Now she’s a one-woman conglomerate with a production company and a…
17 Aug 2021
Austin Russell: the university drop-out who made a billion dollars
Austin Russell: the university drop-out who made a billion dollars
Halfway through his first year as a physics student, Austin Russell won a $100,000 prize designed to encourage young entrepreneurs. A decade later, he…
8 Aug 2021
George Iacobescu: the man who transformed London
George Iacobescu: the man who transformed London
George Iacobescu, the man who – quite literally – put Canary Wharf on the map, is stepping back from his executive role. He will be a tough act to fol…
1 Aug 2021
José Neves: the Buddhist transforming luxury fashion
José Neves: the Buddhist transforming luxury fashion
José Neves cornered the market in building bespoke websites and apps for boutique fashion brands and retailers. That put him in a sweet spot when the …
25 Jul 2021
The story of Wise, a multi-billion fintech started by accident
The story of Wise, a multi-billion fintech started by accident
If you grow up in a situation where a whole country has to be made from scratch, creating a game-changing financial technology start-up such as Wise …
17 Jul 2021
Wes Edens: the raider who snapped up Morrisons
Wes Edens: the raider who snapped up Morrisons
Wes Edens is already well known in Birmingham for rescuing the city’s Aston Villa football club from disaster. Can he pull a similar trick with a flag…
11 Jul 2021
John McAfee: the tech maverick who lost a $100m fortune
John McAfee: the tech maverick who lost a $100m fortune
John McAfee made his name pioneering software to protect against computer viruses. He lost nearly everything in the financial crash and lived a life o…
4 Jul 2021
Ken Goldin: making a million from a child’s hobby
Ken Goldin: making a million from a child’s hobby
Ken Goldin’s career began when, aged 12, he swapped his toy cars for a baseball-card collection. He turned the hobby into a multimillion-dollar busine…
27 Jun 2021
Patrick Drahi’s audacious raid on BT
Patrick Drahi’s audacious raid on BT
Patrick Drahi, the Israeli-French billionaire, has stealthily become the biggest shareholder in the British telecoms firm, seeking to unleash its true…
19 Jun 2021
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: prophet of the AI age
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: prophet of the AI age
Jensen Huang’s Nvidia started out in computer games. That may have been merely a toehold on the route to global dominance in the tech industry.
13 Jun 2021
Strive Masiyiwa: the philanthropist who connected Africa
Strive Masiyiwa: the philanthropist who connected Africa
Strive Masiyiwa made his fortune bringing the mobile phone to the masses in Africa. Now he’s the first black billionaire to join the ranks of The Sund…
30 May 2021
Chamath Palihapitiya: the social savant leading the Spac revolution
Chamath Palihapitiya: the social savant leading the Spac revolution
Chamath Palihapitiya is credited with sparking the current market mania for Spacs and mob investing. He says his aim is to bring down the establishmen…
23 May 2021
Harley Finkelstein’s Shopify: the “Amazon for entrepreneurs”
Harley Finkelstein’s Shopify: the “Amazon for entrepreneurs”
Shopify started as a snowboard shop that baulked at gifting its customers to Amazon. Now,it is an essential part of the internet’s infrastructure. Har…
15 May 2021