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Wes Edens: the raider who snapped up Morrisons
Profiles 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 flagging supermarket chain?
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John McAfee: the tech maverick who lost a $100m fortune
Profiles John McAfee made his name pioneering software to protect against computer viruses. He lost nearly everything in the financial crash and lived a life on the run, killing himself to thwart the US authorities.
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Ken Goldin: making a million from a child’s hobby
Profiles 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 business – and now the market is going wild.
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Patrick Drahi’s audacious raid on BT
Profiles Patrick Drahi, the Israeli-French billionaire, has stealthily become the biggest shareholder in the British telecoms firm, seeking to unleash its true value. But his record might well make BT nervous.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: prophet of the AI age
Profiles 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.
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Strive Masiyiwa: the philanthropist who connected Africa
Profiles 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 Sunday Times’ Rich List.
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Chamath Palihapitiya: the social savant leading the Spac revolution
Profiles Chamath Palihapitiya is credited with sparking the current market mania for Spacs and mob investing. He says his aim is to bring down the establishment from within.
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Anthony Tan: the Malaysian business scion taking on Uber
Profiles Anthony Tan has always been unabashedly ambitious and, in taxi-hailing apps, saw his chance to get into the history books. The competition, though, may be about to hot up.
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António Horta-Osório: the tennis ace who saved Lloyds Bank
Profiles António Horta-Osório was determined to rescue Britain’s largest high-street bank from disaster, and he succeeded, if at the cost of his own health. Can he repeat the trick at stricken Credit Suisse?
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