What you may not understand about crypto’s millionaires

GUEST: The decentralized age, enabled by cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, is coming fast. We are witnessing the wholesale reinvention of the world’s financial system. When all is said and done, it is going to be fairer, more democratic, and will empower billions of people. And those crypto-millionaires — who you secretly begrudge for ‘not having […]

How Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, and 15 other millionaires and billionaires got their start

Beck Diefenbach/Reuters Even wildly successful entrepreneurs start out from scratch. But while some build their empires from a young age, others stumble across success, while many more have to roll up their sleeves to make their businesses work. Find out how the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and J.K. Rowling got started, […]

The number of millionaires in Sweden and Norway is growing fast

franganillo/Flickr The World Wealth Report by CapGemini has mapped the world’s high net worth individuals, or people with combined savings of at least a million U.S. dollars in securities, real estate, or cash (HNWIs). (These savings should exclude the value of the person’s primary apartment and collectibles.) In both Norway and Sweden, the number of HNWIs grew by 13% […]

The world now has 16.5 million millionaires with a record $63.5 trillion in combine wealth

Mike Hewitt/Getty HONG KONG (Reuters) – The number of millionaires in the world risen by nearly 8% last year to an all-time high of around 16.5 million people, with record total wealth of $ 63.5 trillion (£47.53 trillion), according to a report by global consultancy firm Capgemini. The wealth of high net worth individuals (HNWI) — […]

These 10 universities have produced the most millionaires

Paul Marotta/Getty Only 1.3% of millionaires have struck it rich without finishing college, so the first thing most aspiring millionaires should do to up their earning potential is get a degree.  Data firm WealthInsight, in partnership with the news site Verdict, has created a ranking of the universities that have produced the most millionaires around the world. The […]

The ‘messy’ way a former Goldman Sachs employee grew a $150 million startup, then turned half his employees into millionaires

TransmitNow Events/Flickr Scott Belsky is an early investor in startups such as Uber, Pinterest, and Warby Parker who began his career at Goldman Sachs. He realized quickly that Goldman wasn’t for him, so he spent the next four years saving $ 18,000. He used the money and some help from those close to him to […]