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· Jacob Wagner
Someone Just Bought This ‘Masterpiece’ Painting For $46.5 Million
No, “The Onion” did not take over our staff for the day. Someone seriously just bought the above painting for $46.5 million this week at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The artist behind the painting is Mark Rothko, who rose to prominence in the 60s before he committed suicide…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight Shatters Expectations, Makes $500 Million in Revenue
Floyd Mayweather’s win over Manny Pacquiao was a money-making record-breaker, taking in a whopping $400 million from pay-per-view purchases alone. Add in other streams and views of the fight, and it looks like the “Fight of the Century” will generate more than $500 million. Bob…
· Max Chang
Chinese Company to Spend $15 Million on Four-Day Paris Vacation For 6,400 Workers
If you thought your company perks were great, you thought absolutely wrong. Tiens Group, a large Chinese company with 12,000 employees is sending 6,400 workers on an epic four-day vacation to Paris, France, according a report by The Guardian.
· Benny Luo
How a Nerd Who Got His First Kiss at 21 Built a $30 Million ‘Sugar Daddy’ Dating Empire
“Love is a concept invented by poor people.” – Brandon Wade One of the best ways to create a great product is to simply come up with a solution for your own biggest problem. For entrepreneur Brandon Wade, his problem was relationships. For a long time, he struggled to find a…
· Editorial Staff
Black Cards and Vertu Phones: The Life of a 20-Year-Old Self-Made Millionaire
Everyone knows that financial freedom isn’t easy to attain. It can take years of hard work, discipline and luck to reach it. Then there are people like 20-year-old entrepreneur Evan Luthra. Evan Luthra recently hit the internet spotlight when his Instagram account was featured…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Kidnapped Fashion Heiress Speaks Out After Family Pays $3.6 Million Ransom
A kidnapped Hong Kong heiress was released unharmed earlier this week after her family paid a HKD $28 million ($3.61 million) ransom. Queenie Rosita Law, the granddaughter of Law Ting-Pong, the late founder of the Bossini clothing empire who left roughly HKD $1 billion (roughly…
· Sebastian Dillon
How Weed Shops Can Make $1 Million a Month
Although I don’t smoke weed and have never been inside a weed shop, I’ve always been interested in the business of cannabis. So on 4/20, when a friend of a friend invited me to his medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles, I jumped at the opportunity to, uh … research. As…
· Max Chang
Startup Founder Sells Prized Ferrari After Having to Shut Down $100 Million Company
Yesterday, the startup world learned that Secret, the anonymous social networking app for sharing gossip, would be shutting down for good and returning money to investors. Secret had raised a total of $35 million at a $100 million valuation throughout 2014. Their last Series B…
· Editorial Staff
Manny Pacquiao Drops Over $3 Million on Fight Tickets For His 900-Person Entourage
If you thought Manny Pacquiao spending $4,200 on a casual sushi lunch for his friends and family was crazy … Pacquiao spent over $3 million on tickets to make sure all 900 people in his “entourage” would be able to attend his upcoming fight, according to Yahoo! Sports.
· Max Chang
Millionaires Believe These Top 3 Factors Made Them Rich
How do you become a millionaire? There’s no simple answer short of having the stars align just for you, but you could always just ask a bunch of millionaires how they got rich to give you an idea. Spectrem Group, a wealth research firm, released their quarterly Wealth…
· Benny Luo
How an Injured Ex-Pro Athlete Went From Being Broke to Owning a Million-Dollar Business
All-American athlete Lewis Howes dreamed of one day playing in the NFL and becoming an Olympian. He was on track until a wrist injury ultimately ended his career. Howes, then fresh out of college, found himself broke and living on his sister’s couch, trying to figure out the…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
This $300 Hamptons Trailer Bought in 1956 Is Now on Sale for Over $1 Million
A trailer house on land bought for $300 is now on the market for $1.2 million. A humble one-bedroom, one-bath trailer in Amagansett South in the uber-wealthy Hamptons is on sale for an astonishing $1.2 million.
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Manny Pacquiao Snagged a $12.5 Million Mansion By Offering Tickets to the Mayweather Fight
While Manny Pacquiao is getting ready for his superfight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 3, he still found the time to buy a house in probably the most competitive and expensive real estate market in the country. Pacquiao purchased an opulent 10,000 square-foot pad for his…
· Alan Van
8 CEOs Who Became Self-Made Millionaires Before Turning 30 [Infographic]
A recent poll found that 70% of millennials expect to be millionaires one day — this, despite the fact that millennials have a poor reputation among hiring managers and are, on average, broke. But there’s hope! Take some inspiration from the Essay.Expert infographic below…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
British Millionaire Spends $15,000 Trying to Find the Murderer of His Daughter’s Kitten
We’ve all heard the cringe-worthy stories about microwaved kittens and poisoned puppies. Leighton Meester killed a cat by putting her in the dryer in the movie “The Roommate.” These acts of violence are illegal, but justice doesn’t always come swiftly, or at all, for its…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Billionaire Gifts Over $1 Million to His Home Town’s Elderly for Chinese New Year
Many Chinese all over the world receive red envelopes full of cash during Chinese New Year. The money is typically given by the married to children and the unmarried and is supposed to bestow good fortune on those who receive it, as our site explains. Most get around over $100…
· Max Chang
A 29-Year-Old Man Who Refused Free Business School Now Makes Over $8 Million a Year Selling Sheep
Lu Yanzhe, out of Liaoning, China, was like any other academically smart student who excelled in school. He not only graduated from one of China’s most elite universities, but was also offered a full-ride scholarship to a business school in the U.S. Instead of taking the deal,…
· Editorial Staff
Snoop Dogg is Raising $25 Million to Invest in Weed Startups
We can’t say we didn’t see this coming: Snoop Dogg is looking to raise $25 million to fund startups in the marijuana industry, according to a report by TechCrunch. This isn’t the first time the rapper has been in the investing game; he has money tied up in Reddit and Robinhood,…
· Editorial Staff
Watch Fresh-Faced, 28-Year-Old Elon Musk Make His First Millionaire Splurge
What’s it like when your startup finally makes it big? For Elon Musk in 1999, the feeling was encapsulated in a $1 million McLaren F1 hypercar.
· Max Chang
Becoming a Millionaire Can Make You Depressed, Experts Say
It used to be that you’d dream of winning the lottery so that all your money problems would be solved and you’d live a comfortable life of leisure for the rest of your days. More money, more problems? Never heard of it.
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