There are over a thousand billionaires in the world, but you will be hard pressed to find someone as unique as Bill Bartman. Why?
"He’s the ONLY former homeless person and gang member ever to have made a billion dollars. That’s right, Bill went from eating out of dumpsters and living under a bridge viaduct, to having after-tax, take-home pay in a single year of more than $100 million and being listed as the 25th richest person in America."...
Amazing, huh? Read a bit more here, and of course here's Bill Bartman's web site
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Gates spending lots on green revolution
The Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation are uniting to try to jump-start a new Green Revolution. This is not aimed at electric cars for you and me. Not aimed at cheaper electricity for Beijing or London. This is aimed at agriculture in areas where starvation and povertyabound. Gates donations alone will exceed $300-millionfor Africa and other regions.
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Source: ZDNet Blog
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Source: ZDNet Blog
Clive Palmer's $100m gift to poor indigenous
Billionaire's $100m gift to poor indigenous
30 Jan 08
THE Gold Coast's own billionaire, Clive Palmer, has thrown down the gauntlet to resource giants with a bold move to give indigenous communities a $100 million dividend from his back pocket.
Mr Palmer, chairman of Mineralogy, which owns a swag of iron ore tenements in the Pilbara, has set up a charitable foundation into which he plans to channel some of the proceeds of a $220 million-plus deal with Chinese industrial heavyweight CITIC.
Full story here
30 Jan 08
THE Gold Coast's own billionaire, Clive Palmer, has thrown down the gauntlet to resource giants with a bold move to give indigenous communities a $100 million dividend from his back pocket.
Mr Palmer, chairman of Mineralogy, which owns a swag of iron ore tenements in the Pilbara, has set up a charitable foundation into which he plans to channel some of the proceeds of a $220 million-plus deal with Chinese industrial heavyweight CITIC.
Full story here
Thailand, the place for "billionaire backpackers"
Thailand is the place for "billionaire backpackers"
Thailand has been identified as the ideal location for those backpackers with a bigger-than-average budget.
While the south-east Asian country used to be the place to go for gap year students on a shoestring, Thailand is now host to a number of luxury developments for the "billionaire backpacker", reports the Telegraph.
Full story here
Thailand has been identified as the ideal location for those backpackers with a bigger-than-average budget.
While the south-east Asian country used to be the place to go for gap year students on a shoestring, Thailand is now host to a number of luxury developments for the "billionaire backpacker", reports the Telegraph.
Full story here
Sunday, January 27, 2008
An Interview with Craig from Craigslist
An Interview with Craig from Craigslist
Craig walks a fine line between two worlds. He is one of the first real Internet gurus, yet he isn't a multi-millionaire or retired to the Bahamas. He lives a normal life - he even works as a customer service representative for Craigslist. Here's a quick interview into his daily life, his thoughts for the election and insight into human nature.
Craig walks a fine line between two worlds. He is one of the first real Internet gurus, yet he isn't a multi-millionaire or retired to the Bahamas. He lives a normal life - he even works as a customer service representative for Craigslist. Here's a quick interview into his daily life, his thoughts for the election and insight into human nature.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
A Billion Dollar Graphic
A Billion Dollar Graphic, actually, a Billionaire Graphic to be more precise
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sheldon Adelson - The Billionaire Most Have Never Heard Of
Few Americans have made as much money in China as Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the world. Yet he may well be the richest American that most people have never heard of. One explanation for his relative anonymity is that he is a newcomer to the highest altitudes of the fabulously wealthy.
Las Vegas Sands went public in December 2004, and over the next two years his net worth soared by $US17.5 billion. That works out at almost $US1 million an hour, weekends, holidays and nights included.
"He got richer faster than anyone else in history," said Peter Bernstein, a co-author of All The Money In The World, a book about the people on the Forbes 400 list.
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Las Vegas Sands went public in December 2004, and over the next two years his net worth soared by $US17.5 billion. That works out at almost $US1 million an hour, weekends, holidays and nights included.
"He got richer faster than anyone else in history," said Peter Bernstein, a co-author of All The Money In The World, a book about the people on the Forbes 400 list.
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