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absolutely fascinating journey… Rodney Sacks and Hilton Schlosberg met in South Africa back in 1989. At the time, the British born Schlosberg was working at a UK conglomerate called J. Bibby & Sons. The South African-born Sacks was working as an executive recruiter for a Southern California-based company called Confidential Assignments. For reasons that are not clear today, the duo hit it off right away and immediately decided to quit their jobs and go into business together....

We don’t know much about Satoshi, but we do know that he controls 1 million Bitcoins. You can see those 1 million coins sitting in his public wallet. A public wallet that has not been accessed or touched in any way since January 2009. There will only ever be a total of 21 million Bitcoins released. As the creator and predominant first Bitcoin miner, Satoshi collected or rewarded himself with 1 million Bitcoins in those early months....

We also had a minor upset as a pair of legendary coaches faced off in Providence, Rhode Island. John Calipari and his Arkansas Razorbacks defeated Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks, 79-72. A 10-seed beating a 7-seed isn’t a major upset, though Arkansas did come into the game as 4.5-point underdogs. The Razorbacks ended the game on a 15-5 run to ice the game and capture the victory. With the Jayhawks knocked out, the highest-paid coach in the NCAA Tournament is already eliminated....

Services like Hire Society, a recruitment firm that works with the ultra-affluent in New York City, the Hamptons, and Palm Beach, are available to help billionaires staff their households and businesses. “The vast majority of our clients are the .01% – they have multiple homes, private aircraft, and several members of domestic staff,” said Hire Society founder David Youdovin. “There’s major altruism in putting good people to work with these families,” Youdovin continued....

Ogawa made his $1 billion fortune on gyudon, Japan’s classic shredded beef and rice bowls, which he sells at Sukiya, his chain of 2,000 restaurants with locations in Japan, China, Mexico, and Brazil. But that’s not the only fast food endeavor of the gyudon guru. Ogawa founded Zensho in 1982 after a career working in shipyards and in activism for labor unions. Zensho is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates 4,800 restaurants, including the Sukiya chain....

To give everyone a really brief refresher, Ross Ulbricht is the alleged mastermind of a secretive internet drug marketplace called Silk Road. Before the FBI shut the site down, Silk Road was essentially the exact same as eBay or Craigslist if you were looking to buy heroin, cocaine, meth, weed, ecstasy etc… By using encryption software called a Tor browser, all buyers and sellers were able to remain totally anonymous and off the grid....

That’s more than the previous $70 million record set in 2014 by Minecraft creator Markus Persson – whose home is just up the road from Camp’s. The Camp-Nguyen’s new home was never listed for sale publicly, but had been quietly marketed for $80 million by luxury real estate broker The Agency. The home is uber contemporary (pun intended) and sits on an enormous lot for the neighborhood. The more than acre of land allows the homeowners to have a hidden semi-subterranean entrance to a fancy garage....

When Microsoft officially incorporated in 1981, Steve Ballmer owned 8% of the company, Paul Allen 25% and Bill Gates 45%. The remaining 22% was split up among some of the luckiest people ever to join a risky young startup: The day before Microsoft’s IPO, Larry Ellison’s Oracle Corp had its own IPO. Oracle planned to offer 2.1 million shares at $15 but by the end of its first trading day, Oracle shares sat at $19....

The tournament is called the Big One for One Drop. The tournament’s entry fee is $1 million. That’s not a typo. Guy Laliberte, the man who founded Cirque du Soleil, came up with the tournament as a way to promote his One Drop foundation that aims to bring better drinking water to the world. Laliberte loves playing in large cash games. He was recently featured on the Game Show Network’s High Stakes Poker show....

She currently has plans to attend college with a focus on Pre-Medicine. She intends to pursue a career in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery. She appears on the Style Network reality series, “Big Rich Texas”, with her mother, Bonnie Blossman. The pair has been featured on the show since Season 1.

He joined MTV2 Europe to work on the show Gonzo. Lowe hosted the radio show Music Response on XFM and then joined BBC Radio 1 in 2002. He has introduced the world to artists such as Gnarls Barkley, Arctic Monkeys, Ed Sheeran, and Adele. Lowe has won four NME Awards for Best Radio Show and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for Best Album for Sam Smith’s In the Lonely Hour which he wrote and produced....

Amrish Puri was born in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India in June 1932. His older brothers are actors Chaman Singh Puri and Madan Puri. Amrish failed his first screen test and worked for the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation. He became a well-established stage actor and won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979. During his career Puri had more than 400 acting credits. His first screen role came in the 1970 film Prem Pujari....

The website operator – who may reside abroad and does not presently have a known address or full name – goes by the web handle “Cobra”. Why should you care about a random copyright lawsuit, which is officially known as Wright v Person(s) unknown? Because the heart of this lawsuit is Craig Wright’s claim that he is the true original creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. If he’s telling the truth, Craig Wright might have just outed himself as one of the 25 richest people on the planet....

In 1966, then 18-year-old Andrew Cherng immigrated to the U.S. to go to college at Baker University in Kansas. He got his B.S. in mathematics, and met his future wife, Peggy Tsiang. He had been born in Burma and raised in Hong Kong. Like Andrew, she had immigrate to the U.S. to attend Baker University. The couple enrolled in grad school at Mizzou where Andrew got his M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Peggy her Ph....

Not only did she become a household name as Murdoch’s spouse, but her own accomplishments in journalism, publishing, and philanthropy have set her apart as a formidable personality in her own right. Her life in the limelight was marked by the interplay of power, glamour, and controversy—a blend that both captivated and polarized public opinion. With a reputation for elegance, sharp wit, and an innate sense of style, Anna became a symbol of sophisticated media influence....

Avram Glazer was born on October 19, 1960. He is one of six children born to Malcolm and Linda Glazer. Malcolm Glazer was a college dropout who parlayed a small fortune earned owning trailer parks into a global investment empire. Malcolm’s holding company First Allied Corporation eventually acquired lucrative stakes in dozens of companies, notably Formica and Harley-Davidson. When Malcolm died in 2014, he was worth $4.6 billion. Control of the family business, including the sports team empires, went to his widow and six children....

Henry Ross Perot was born on June 27, 1930 in Texarkana, Texas. He was the son of Lula May Perot and Gabriel Ross Perot. He graduated from Texas High School in 1947 and attended Texarkana Junior College from 1947 to 1949. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1949 and was integral in establishing its honor system. He married Margot Birmingham in 1956. He met his wife on a blind date when he was a midshipman in the Navy and she was in college in Baltimore....

As of the fall of 2014, Labonte races periodically in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He and his brother, Terry, are the only set of brothers who have ever both managed to win the Sprint Cup championship. Labonte became the first driver to win both the Busch Series and the Winston Cup. He has more than 200 career top ten finishes in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, having appeared in more than 700 races in close to 25 years....

Early Life and Formation of The Jam Born on September 1, 1955, in Woking, Surrey, Bruce Foxton grew up in the same working-class community as Paul Weller. Originally learning to play guitar, he switched to bass when joining The Jam in 1974. The transition proved fortuitous, as his distinctive bass playing would become one of the group’s defining features. Working alongside drummer Rick Buckler, Foxton created a powerful rhythm section that gave The Jam much of its musical muscle....

In 2007, she first appeared in the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on American TV, and her signature wide-set, pale blue eyes and plump lips put her in the modeling fast lane with a new career with Victoria’s Secret as an ‘angel.’ She appeared in the 2008-2010 editions of the show as well. In 2013, Swanepoel was named the cover model of the coveted Victoria’s Secret Swim Catalogue. She was also chosen to wear the “Fantasy Bra” in the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show....