Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates Lacy O’Toole | CNBC But in a major article this week, the Times says that over the past two years, “there has been a growing backlash from the billionaires who are its target donors,” including a “quiet campaign by one pro-Trump tech billionaire to destroy it.” Peter Thiel tells the Times he has privately…
FILE PHOTO: White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler listens as President Barack Obama speaks at an installation ceremony for FBI Director James Comey at FBI Headquarters in Washington, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013. Charles Dharapak | AP The House committee investigating the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday night asked Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Goldman Sachs‘…
Printed documents available at Epstein Library on the U.S. Department of Justice website are seen in this illustration photo. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The U.S. Justice Department’s latest release of millions of documents related to the notorious sex criminal and financier Jeffrey Epstein has shed more light on the relationships he built with…
Bill Gates is as optimistic about the world’s future as ever, despite the fact that we’re living through “an era with so many challenges and so much polarization,” the billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder wrote in a blog post on Friday. The world faces plenty of causes for concern over issues like climate change, global…
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has unveiled the final tally for her 2025 charitable donations, which totaled $7.17 billion in gifts to roughly 225 organizations, she wrote in a blog post published on Tuesday. “This dollar total will likely be reported in the news, but any dollar amount is a vanishingly tiny fraction of the personal…
Neal Mohan, the CEO of YouTube speaks during a panel for the Summit for Democracy on March 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images YouTube’s CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children’s social media use, as the harms of being…
Photo released from the Jeffrey Epstein files shows Donald Trump with multiple women. Redactions were done by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Date and context is unclear. Source: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Nearly 100,000 photos obtained by House Democrats from the estate of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein include images of…
Dustin Muskovitz, co-founder and chairman at Asana. Stefanie Keenan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Meta’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz opened up about the pains of leadership and admitted that 13 years of being a CEO was “exhausting.” Moskovitz, one of the original founders of Meta, formerly Facebook, co-founded the social platform in 2004 alongside Mark…
One quality separates the most successful business owners from all others, according to billionaire Jimmy John Liautaud: They work really, really hard. In that vein, the 61-year-old founder and former chairman of the Jimmy John’s sandwich chain doesn’t believe in work-life balance, he said in a TikTok video posted by The School of Hardknocks on…
In March, Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy organization disbanded its energy policy team, cutting dozens of staff. Now, some of them have founded a new organization, the nonprofit clean economy project, Similar for decisive energyThe organization is betting that clean energy can beat fossil fuels on cost, if not today, then in the near future. According…
