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
António Horta-Osório: the tennis ace who saved Lloyds Bank
António Horta-Osório: the tennis ace who saved Lloyds Bank
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. Ca…
2 May 2021
Cazoo’s Alex Chesterman: “I’m not an innovator, just a copycat”
Cazoo’s Alex Chesterman: “I’m not an innovator, just a copycat”
Serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman likes to improve the consumer experience by spotting what’s broken, then fixing it. That’s been a successful strat…
24 Apr 2021
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Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel: the maths nerd who struck vaccine gold
Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel: the maths nerd who struck vaccine gold
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 o…
17 Apr 2021
Will Shu: Deliveroo CEO and its first delivery rider
Will Shu: Deliveroo CEO and its first delivery rider
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 …
10 Apr 2021
John and Patrick Collison: the nerds who conquered Silicon Valley
John and Patrick Collison: the nerds who conquered Silicon Valley
John and Patrick Collison, a genial pair of young Irish brothers from a humble background, had a simple idea – to launch the next PayPal. Just ten yea…
3 Apr 2021
AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot: in the crossfire of the vaccine wars
AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot: in the crossfire of the vaccine wars
AstraZeneca’s boss Pascal Soriot was winning plaudits for his stewardship when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Since then, he’s been having a hard time …
27 Mar 2021
Great frauds in history: Wang Fengyou’s ant-breeding scam
Great frauds in history: Wang Fengyou’s ant-breeding scam
“Model entrepreneur” Wang Fengyou's ant-farming Ponzi scheme pulled in $1.2bn, with investors losing all.
25 Mar 2021
Merck Mercuriadis: the mogul shaking up the music business
Merck Mercuriadis: the mogul shaking up the music business
Merck Mercuriadis has been spending millions snapping up the rights to hit songs and turning them into an income stream for investors. Can the good ti…
21 Mar 2021
Jay Z: the urban Shakespeare who became hip-hop’s first billionaire
Jay Z: the urban Shakespeare who became hip-hop’s first billionaire
Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, has always displayed a talent not just for rhyme, but for making money too – he was hip-hop’s first billionaire. He hasn’t lo…
13 Mar 2021
Tom Morris: the rise of Home Bargains and the lure of the treasure hunt
Tom Morris: the rise of Home Bargains and the lure of the treasure hunt
Despite the digital revolution, piling it high and selling it cheap on the high street remains a profitable strategy. Ask Tom Morris and family, now w…
7 Mar 2021
Great frauds in history: Jeff Carpoff’s green Ponzi scheme
Great frauds in history: Jeff Carpoff’s green Ponzi scheme
Jeff Carpoff's plan to make money from renting out solar-powered generators quickly turned into a Ponzi scheme.
4 Mar 2021
Ian and Richard Livingstone: the brothers who built a $7.2bn fortune
Ian and Richard Livingstone: the brothers who built a $7.2bn fortune
As 20-somethings, Ian and Richard Livingstone began snapping up cheap London property. Their knack for spotting promising but underrated assets has se…
28 Feb 2021
Great frauds in history: Helmut Kiener, Germany’s mini-Madoff
Great frauds in history: Helmut Kiener, Germany’s mini-Madoff
The performance of Helmut Kiener’s fund of funds, which invested money from institutions and private investors into hedge funds, seemed too good to be…
25 Feb 2021
Cathie Wood: the superstar investor shooting for the stars
Cathie Wood: the superstar investor shooting for the stars
Cathie Wood has quietly built a reputation for picking the unloved and misunderstood stocks that go on to thrive. She has just launched a new ETF that…
21 Feb 2021
Meet Andy Jassy – the new broom at Amazon
Meet Andy Jassy – the new broom at Amazon
Andy Jassy is taking over from departing CEO Jeff Bezos at the world’s largest online retailer. Will he be able to fill the founder’s shoes? Jane Lewi…
14 Feb 2021
Great frauds in history: Manfred Schmider, the Sheikh of Karlsruhe
Great frauds in history: Manfred Schmider, the Sheikh of Karlsruhe
Manfred Schmider massaged the sales figures at FlowTex, his utility technology company, and used investors’ money to buy villas around the world, a fl…
10 Feb 2021
Kate Bingham: the grande dame of venture capitalists
Kate Bingham: the grande dame of venture capitalists
The success of Britain’s vaccine strategy is largely down to one woman – Kate Bingham, a biotech expert for a venture-capital firm. It’s not the first…
7 Feb 2021