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November 7, 20262 min
Billionaire Soccer Legend Cristiano Ronaldo Announces Retirement From Portugal National Team
Billionaire soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo announced Thursday he will retire from Portugal’s national team, ending a record-breaking career that spanned two decades and made him one of the world’s wealthiest athletes, just a month after longtime rival Lionel Messi played his final game for Argentina. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/11/05/billionaire-soccer-legend-cristiano-ronaldo-announces-retirement-from-portugal-national-team/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 7, 20267 min
“Lawyer Up”: Elon Musk’s DOGE Bill Comes Due
Elon Musk’s brief stint as the chainsaw-waving face of the Trump administration’s DOGE initiative did little to curb federal spending, though it helped push more than 300,000 federal workers out of government through firings, voluntary resignations and early retirements last year. It also sparked anti-Tesla protests in the U.S. and Europe, some of which ended with cars ablaze. At best, DOGE was “a little successful,” he said with a sigh in a podcast interview last December with Katie Miller, the wife of White House advisor Stephen Miller who’d briefly worked with both DOGE and for Musk. But he acknowledged that if he had the chance to do it again, he wouldn’t. “I think instead of doing DOGE I would have basically worked on my companies,” Musk said. “And [then] they wouldn’t have been burning the cars.” Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/11/05/lawyer-up-elon-musks-doge-bill-comes-due/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 6, 20263 min
Billionaires React To Democratic Midterm Sweep
Following Tuesday’s midterm elections, which resulted in major victories for Democrats, prominent tech investors and some of the nation’s wealthiest individuals offered vastly different responses. Reid Hoffman, a billionaire and key Democratic donor, called out Elon Musk over his heavy financial backing of Texas Republicans, while the world’s richest man made light of the outcome with comments about election interference and “space lasers”. In a post on X early on Wednesday, Musk—who was the largest individual donor in the 2026 elections—joked, “Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” as Democrats won both the U.S. Senate and governor’s races in his home state of Texas. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/11/04/billionaires-react-to-democratic-midterm-sweep-musk-jokes-about-space-lasers-as-hoffman-calls-him-out/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 6, 20266 min
Elon’s ROI: $458 Million Didn’t Buy Much In The Midterms
Elon Musk’s pinned tweet—at least until Tuesday night—sums up his thoughts succinctly: If Democrats won the midterms, and then the presidency in 2028, it would be “the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.” In his telling, Democrats would abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, expand the Senate and institute open borders, all policies that he claims would lock Republicans out of power forever. In the waning days of the campaign, the richest man in the world put his money where his mouth was, flooding races across the country with at least $458 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings and other reporting. That’s far more than any other donor—at least three times as much as the billionaire Uihlein couple in second place, per New York Times estimates. It’s also close to three times what George Soros, the man Musk has spent years casting as the hidden hand behind the Democratic Party, disclosed spending in his biggest election ever. It didn’t buy him much. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2026/11/04/elons-roi-458-million-didnt-buy-much-in-the-midterms/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 5, 20266 min
Former School Teacher And Sister Become Billionaires After Tape Maker’s Stock Surges 787% In IPO
China’s enthusiasm for new stocks has helped to mint two billionaires on paper, as the surging shares of tape maker Crown New Materials Technology during its trading debut on Tuesday have made its Chairman and CEO, former elementary school teacher Mai Michael, and his sister immensely rich. Mai, 62, who now has Australian citizenship and is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, has a net worth of $2.5 billion based on his stake, according to Forbes estimates. His sister, Mai Huixia, 64, a Chinese citizen and the company’s vice chairman, has amassed a $2 billion fortune from her stake, according to Forbes. The company didn’t respond to a request for comment on their net worth. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ywang/2026/11/03/former-elementary-school-teacher-and-sister-become-billionaires-after-tape-makers-stock-surges-787-in-ipo/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 4, 20267 min
The Top 10 Richest People In The World | November 2026
The world’s top ten richest people lost a total of $273 billion over the past month, as disappointing tech earnings and concerns over AI spending drove the tech-heavy Nasdaq down nearly 5%. The wealthiest person on Earth, Elon Musk, was the biggest loser, as his fortune fell by an estimated $68 billion, to $869 billion as of 12 a.m. Eastern time on November 1. That’s because shares of SpaceX, which account for nearly four-fifths of Musk’s net worth, fell by 11%, more than offsetting a 13% increase in Tesla’s stock price. But Musk is still more than twice as rich as his runner-up, Jeff Bezos, whose fortune dipped by an estimated $8 billion, to $361 billion, as shares of Amazon slid by 4%. The second and third biggest losers were Google cofounders Larry Page (world wealth rank: No. 3) and Sergey Brin (No. 5), whose fortunes tumbled by an estimated $53 billion and $49 billion, respectively, as shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet dropped by more than 18%. Page and Brin are now worth $233 billion and $214 billion, respectively. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/article/the-top-ten-richest-people-in-the-world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 3, 20262 min
Mukesh Ambani Gains $8.5 Billion On Monday To Become Asia’s Richest Person
Mukesh Ambani, the head of India’s most valuable company, overtook Bytedance’s Zhang Yinmin to become Asia’s richest person on Monday after a nearly 12% surge in Reliance Industries stock added $8.5 billion to his net worth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
November 3, 20267 min
The Untold Story Of The Elizabeth Holmes Photo That Framed The Scandal
Is one of Forbes most famous portraits deceiving us or just telling us what we want to hear? Examining the extraordinary afterlife of an iconic image. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 31, 20262 min
DoorDash Will Acquire Instacart In $17 Billion Deal
DoorDash is acquiring its competitor Instacart for $17 billion, the company announced Thursday. A majority of the deal will be paid in cash and shareholders will have the option to receive cash, DoorDash stock or a combination of both. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/10/29/doordash-will-acquire-instacart-in-17-billion-deal/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
October 31, 20267 min
Inside Anthropic’s $1 Trillion Spending Plan On Data Centers, AI Chips
The Claude maker filed for its blockbuster IPO on Monday, revealing $1 trillion in spending over the next two decades on chips and data centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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