She started as a summer intern at her family’s company and ended up running $7 trillion. 💰 Abigail Johnson — Fidelity’s chairman and CEO, worth $30 billion — is the richest person in Massachusetts and one of the most powerful women in finance. This is how she did it. Abigail Johnson Then 🌱 Abigail Johnson […]

He started mowing lawns at 14 and ended up running the largest pile of money in the world. Stephen Schwarzman — the Blackstone co-founder worth nearly $46 billion, the “King of Wall Street” — turned $400,000 into more than $1 trillion. This is how the son of a Philadelphia dry goods store owner conquered global

He turned $5 million into $500 billion, passed on 20% of Amazon, and bought a 13th-century Magna Carta for fun. David Rubenstein — the Carlyle Group co-founder who became a TV interviewer, patriotic philanthropist, and at 75, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles — has lived several careers in one lifetime. This is how a

She went from writing code at Microsoft to co-running the largest private charity in human history — then walked away from it with $12.5 billion to start over on her own terms. Melinda French Gates spent two decades in one of the world’s most famous marriages and emerged as one of philanthropy’s most independent forces.

He started with $500, a handshake, and a pair of running shoes sold from the trunk of his car. Sixty years later, the swoosh he once hated is one of the most recognized logos on earth, and Phil Knight — the shy Oregon track runner who built Nike — is worth more than $35 billion.

Alex Karp Then Alexander Caedmon Karp was born on October 2, 1967, in New York City and was raised in Philadelphia. Unlike most technology chief executives, his route into the industry ran through the humanities and the law rather than engineering: he studied at Haverford College, earned a law degree at Stanford Law School, and

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