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From Priscilla Chan to Melinda Gates, these are the spouses of some of the...
Most of tech's most powerful CEOs are married. Not everyone is coupled up — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have girlfriends, while Jack Dorsey and Tim Cook appear to be single. But for those who are married,...
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The most unusual, extravagant ways tech executives like Larry Ellison and...
Tech executives like Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk have found unusual ways to spend their billions. Elon Musk bought the submarine car from "The Spy Who Loved Me," while Jeff Bezos dredged...
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Billionaire tech mogul Larry Ellison has said he's 'close friends' with Elon...
Silicon Valley might be competitive, but it also appears to be a breeding ground for friendships among its famous execs.It makes sense: the tech world is home to some of the richest people in the...
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Glossier founder Emily Weiss and Stripe executive Will Gaybrick are engaged....
Glossier founder Emily Weiss and Stripe executive Will Gaybrick are officially engaged, according to a recent Instagram post from the couple.There are several other leaders in the tech industry who are...
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Google employees say the company culture that made it famous has almost...
Google's company culture, which became something of a Silicon Valley paradigm, has steadily become much more corporate, according to several current and former employees who say they long for the...
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The untold story of Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, from those...
YouTube's sale to Google for $1.65 billion in October 2006 altered the course of Silicon Valley history. In honor of YouTube's 15th anniversary, Business Insider spoke with early employees, investors,...
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Google billionaire Sergey Brin has a secret charity that sends ex-military...
The Daily Beast has identified Sergey Brin as the sole donor to a secretive disaster-response charity called GSD.GSD sends its staff, many of whom are ex-military, to disaster areas around the world.It...
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Trump just froze work visas during a time when a record number of...
A new report found that 45% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or by their children.Some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies fall into that category, like Amazon, Apple, Tesla, and...
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How long it took 11 of the world's richest people to become billionaires
UK-based sports betting firm OLBG found that it takes the average self-made billionaire 21 years to join the three comma club after starting out, but some entrepreneurs get rich faster than others.eBay...
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13 successful tech leaders who struggled as immigrants before making it in...
The tech industry is filled with powerful stories of immigrants who made it big after moving to the United States.For many now-moguls, however, there were struggles and strife along the path to their...
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Elon Musk has tripled his wealth during the pandemic, joining a list of 12...
The 12 richest Americans are now worth more than $1 trillion, according to an analysis from the Institute for Policy Studies.During the pandemic, their combined wealth has increased by $283 billion, a...
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Google's founders visited Warren Buffett more than a decade ago — and were so...
Summary List PlacementGoogle founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped down as heads of Alphabet in 2019.The pair had the idea for Alphabet — a holding company that houses Google, DeepMind, Waymo,...
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Alphabet blew earnings estimates out of the water. From $1.00 to $280.6...
Summary List PlacementAlphabet far surpassed analyst estimates with diluted EPS of $22.30 for quarter four of 2020. Analysts expected $15.58, a gain over quarter four 2019's $15.35.In late 2019,...
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the latest major tech founder to step down as CEO....
Summary List PlacementJeff Bezos started Amazon in his garage in 1994 as a way to sell books online. In 26 years as its CEO, he transformed the company into a behemoth in ecommerce, web services,...
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Billionaires like Ray Dalio and Sergey Brin are opening family offices in...
Summary List PlacementSingapore is becoming a hub for billionaires looking to set up new branches of their family offices thanks to ample incentives and low taxes in the city-state.According to a...
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The rise of Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe who's about to be worth more...
Summary List PlacementAnne Wojcicki is about to join the ranks of billionaire CEOs minted in Silicon Valley.Wojcicki's genetic testing startup, 23andMe, is going public in a reverse merger with a...
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are now worth more than $100...
Summary List PlacementThe Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are now worth more than $100 billion each, thanks to surging tech stocks.Page and Brin join six other centibillionaires: Amazon...
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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has been working on a secretive airship company...
Summary List PlacementIf Sergey Brin has anything to do with it, the future of humanitarian aid could come in the form of giant airships roaming the skies. Brin, the Google cofounder worth over $99...
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From a yacht so big it has its own support boat to floating helipads and...
Summary List PlacementBillionaires are often known for their luxurious lifestyles and high profile gadgets.Some billionaires, like Elon Musk and Bill Gates, buy private planes to take control of the...
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Jeff Bezos is heading to space, but he's not the only mogul obsessed with...
Summary List PlacementIn just a few short weeks, Jeff Bezos will take the riskiest flight of his life, one that takes him 62 miles above Earth, right to the edge of space. The soon-to-be-ex-Amazon CEO...
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