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In 1984, Bernard Arnault bought Christian Dior for one symbolic franc — about the price of a baguette — and turned it into a luxury empire once valued at more than half a trillion dollars. Today he has placed all five of his children inside that empire, setting up what the business world calls the

In 1981, Michael Bloomberg was fired. He was 39 years old, a newly minted ex-partner of Salomon Brothers, and his consolation prize was a severance cheque of roughly $10 million. Most people would have called it a career. Bloomberg called it seed money. He poured it into a start-up operating out of a single room

For one brief moment in February 2000, Masayoshi Son was the richest man in the world. SoftBank’s stock had gone vertical on dot-com mania, and the Japanese founder’s fortune swelled to roughly $76 billion — more than Bill Gates, more than anyone else alive. It remains one of the most astonishing wealth spikes in financial

In October 2014, Advanced Micro Devices was a company the obituaries had already been drafted for. Its market value had shriveled to roughly $2 billion, its chips were an afterthought next to Intel’s, and analysts openly questioned whether it would survive the decade. The board’s answer was a 44-year-old engineer named Lisa Su — a

At the start of 2026, the most successful investor in history did something he had never done in six decades: he stepped down. Warren Buffett handed the CEO job at Berkshire Hathaway to his successor Greg Abel, closing the longest and most profitable run in corporate history. At 96, with a fortune Forbes valued at