Iranian Immigrant Becomes Billionaire As Her Biotech Firm’s Stock Soars
Under the leadership of Summit Therapeutics Co-CEO Maky Zanganeh, shares have risen 17-fold, bollstered by positive data on its leading drug candidate.Courtesy of Maky Zanganeh
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Under the leadership of Summit Therapeutics Co-CEO Maky Zanganeh, shares have risen 17-fold, bollstered by positive data on its leading drug candidate.Courtesy of Maky Zanganeh
The biggest tech companies in the world are shelling out millions of dollars every year to protect their CEOs—but some pay more than others, and for good reason. .Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg runs in Berlin surrounded by bodyguards. Paul Zinken—picture alliance via Getty Images
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Overseeing the Facebook empire might be one of the toughest jobs there is at the moment as the social media platform struggles to fight against fake news, political interference and data privacy concerns.
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Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, was a pioneer of the US tech scene in the 1970s. The AI boom has given him a new lease of life.
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When Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft he didn’t get a single company share. But now, his skyrocketing Microsoft holdings have made him richer than the company’s founder. Fortune· Ramin Talaie—Corbis/Getty Images
Billionaire Mark Cuban wrote, “No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them.” However, optimism bias may be harming our resilience, according to new research.
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Oracle’s founder and largest shareholder, Larry Ellison, has jumped two spots on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index after the tech behemoth posted a bumper outlook this week.
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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford. They may have only taken salaries of $1 during their time at Google, but they’re still two of the richest people in the world. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images