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· Riley Schatzle
Why the Super Millionaire CEO of Zappos Lives in a $950-a-Month Trailer Home
Most CEOs live lavishly with expensive sports cars, private jets, beautiful models, and million-dollar homes, but the CEO for Zappos lives in a Las Vegas trailer park and enjoys spending his time with Marley, the community pet alpaca. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has a net worth of…
· Laura Dang
How a 19-Year-Old With No Experience Ended Up Launching Two Million-Dollar Companies
Melanie Perkins conceived the idea for her business and built her software design company on her mother’s living room couch in Perth, Australia when she was just 19 years old. The company, Fusion Yearbooks, was so successful that she dropped out of her university altogether. If…
· Editorial Staff
Winner of $188 Million Powerball Posts $6 Million Bail for Jailed Boyfriend
Powerball winner Marie Holmes, who won $188 million from the jackpot, is believed to have posted bail with the help of a bail bonds service for her fiance a second time for $6 million. The 26-year-old mother of four made headlines back in February for being one of three winners…
· Laura Dang
Mayweather to Ronda Rousey: Call Me When You Make $300 Million in 36 Minutes
The feud between Floyd Mayweather and Ronda Rousey flares on. Mayweather took a verbal jab at Rousey last Thursday on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” as a rebuttal to Rousey’s putdown of the fighter at the ESPYS last month.
· Max Chang
Steve Jobs’ Ex-Girlfriend Once Asked Him For $30 Million Because He Was a Terrible Father
“He was as cheap as he could be. He under-provided for everything. It was always like pulling teeth to get him to step up,” Chrisann Brennan said of the late tech titan Steve Jobs. Brennan was Jobs’ first girlfriend and the mother of his first daughter, Lisa. In a newly released…
· Riley Schatzle
Rich Dad Leaves $20 Million to Two Daughters, But There’s a Twist
A real estate millionaire left $20 million to be split between his two daughters, but with a unique set of rules attached. Manhattan landlord Maurice Laboz left a total of $37 million behind when he died earlier this year at the age of 77. He left the set of conditions in his…
· Editorial Staff
Ex-NBA All Star Who Made $100 Million is Now Working at Starbucks
Vin Baker went from a $100 million NBA career to working behind the counter at Starbucks — and he’s happy about it. Basketball fans may remember Baker as the All-Star 6’ 11” power forward who played for the Milwaukee Bucks and Seattle SuperSonics during his NBA prime. In 2000,…
· Max Chang
CEO Hands Out $27 Million in Bonuses to Employees After Company Buyout
In an ideal world, all company executives would share their success with the many workers that made that success possible. We don’t live in that kind of world, but we still have CEOs like Nevzat Aydin, who recently paid out $27 million from his company’s recent buyout to his…
· Waylae Gregoire
Startup Founder Raises $1.2 Million in Minutes After Being Told ‘Too Young’ For $5,000
Cindy Wu, a scientist and the co-founder of crowdfunding platform Experiment, is a bit of an accidental entrepreneur. “I never wanted to start a company. I am still not very interested in starting or running a company,” the 26-year-old told Nextshark.
· Editorial Staff
Zappos’ CEO is Worth $840 Million, But Lives in a Trailer Park
Tony Hsieh is not a poor guy. From selling his first startup, LinkExchange, to Microsoft for $265 million and his second one, Zappos, for $1.2 billion, the 41-year-old boasts a reported net worth of $840 million. With that kind of money, Hsieh could pretty much live anywhere he…
· Editorial Staff
50 Cent Says His Fancy Lifestyle is Fake, Claims He’s Only Worth $4.4 Million
One week after filing for bankruptcy, 50 Cent testified in a Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday morning that he is not as wealthy as he appears to be. According to Forbes, 50 Cent’s (real name Curtis Jackson) net worth is estimated to be around $155 million. However, Jackson’s…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Chinese Librarian Steals $17 Million in Artwork, Replaces Them With Fakes
A librarian at a Chinese university stole precious 17th and 20th century pieces of Chinese art and got away with it for years by replacing them with fakes, only to find that his fakes looked so real that they were later stolen and replaced with new fakes. Xiao Yuan, 57, stole…
· Editorial Staff
Rich Couple Spends $40,000 on a Commercial For Their $32 Million Mansion
A ridiculously rich West Hollywood couple spent $40,000 on a commercial for their mansion that is on the market for $32 million.
· Jacob Wagner
How One Man’s ‘Side Project’ Just Landed Him $575 Million in Cash
When programmer and entrepreneur Markus Frind started the dating website Plenty of Fish in 2003, he described it as a “side project” and a simple way to “improve my résumé.” On Tuesday, Match Group, a subsidiary of IAC (the same company that owns Tinder and OkCupid), bought…
· Laura Dang
A ‘Luxury Tour’ in China Makes Over $1.4 Million a Month Scamming Rich Women
Extremely wealthy Chinese women are being scammed out of hundreds of thousands to go on Hong Kong luxury tours that offer “certified” cosmetic procedures along with good-looking boy toys on fancy cruise ships. CNR News via Shanghaiist reports that the sea clinic has been hosting…
· Sarah Lesnar
Here’s the 3-Minute Pitch That Earned One Entrepreneur $1.2 million
When Cindy Wu was a 22-year-old student at the University of Washington, she had an idea but needed funding. Her idea wasn’t for profit –it simply aimed to advance medical science. Wu had been part of an award-winning undergraduate team that created an enzyme which allows the…
· Editorial Staff
How One Man Launched a Website, Made Millions, and Sold it For $100 Million in Two Years
In 2013, Scott Delong, then 29-years-old, launched ViralNova, a media startup dedicated to providing aggregated content that’s shareable and has the potential to go viral — content that many people consider clickbait. The site sold today to digital-media company Zealot Networks…
· Riley Schatzle
How a Street Artist Fresh Out of Jail Made $200 Million Off Facebook’s Stock
There are certain people in society who live life on the edge — the kind of people who just say, “Fuck it.” David Choe, an urban street artist, is one of those people. In 2003, Choe received a letter from billionaire Sean Parker, Napster founder and Facebook investor, who at the…
· Sebastian Dillon
Chinese Actresses Lose Hundreds of Millions in China’s Stock Market Crash
With news of China’s recent stock market crash, don’t be surprised to see some Chinese tuhao wandering aimlessly and begging for money after having lost millions. Instead, let’s focus on the most beautiful victims of plummeting stocks — Chinese actresses who have just lost…
· Riley Schatzle
How a Former Hot Dog Stand Worker Became a Multi-millionaire YouTuber
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, thinks of himself as the world’s biggest unknown celebrity. PewDiePie is a Swedish Youtube creator who specializes in Let’s Play videos, wherein viewers are taken through a playthrough, usually with commentary, of a video…
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