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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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Cazoo’s Alex Chesterman: “I’m not an innovator, just a copycat”
Profiles Serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman likes to improve the consumer experience by spotting what’s broken, then fixing it. That’s been a successful strategy, but is he about to call it a day?
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Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel: the maths nerd who struck vaccine gold
Profiles A decade ago, Stéphane Bancel took a gamble and joined a fledgling start-up working on an unproven new technology. The gamble paid off with the rise of Covid-19.
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Will Shu: Deliveroo CEO and its first delivery rider
Profiles City analyst Will Shu was sick of working long hours at Canary Wharf and having to make do with what was left on the shelf in Tesco for dinner. So he set out to solve the problem himself.
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