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Leonard Alan Lauder (born March 19, 1933) is an American billionaire, philanthropist, art collector.He and his brother, Ronald Lauder, are the sole heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies cosmetics fortune, founded by their parents, Estée Lauder and Joseph Lauder, in 1946. [1]
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger is a book by Matthew Yglesias, first published in 2020. One Billion Americans argues that America is not over-crowded and that the USA should aim to increase its population to 1 billion in order counterbalance China and be "the greatest nation on Earth".
Key Square received a $2 billion anchor investment from George Soros. [22] At the end of 2017, Key Square's assets were $5.1 billion. [22] [23] Key Square's main fund returns increased by 13% in 2016 but lost money or broke even every year from 2017 to 2021 before making major gains in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The inconsistent track record scared ...
Eine Billion Dollar is a 2001 novel by German writer Andreas Eschbach. Its plot revolves around a young pizza driver from New York City, who inherits a trillion US dollars from one of his ancestors who lived in 16th century Florence. With the money comes a prophecy that he must use it to give humanity back its lost future.
As of May 2020, Soros had a net worth of $8.3 billion, [2] [3] having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, [4] of which $15 billion have already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune, thus making him the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net worth among billionaires according to ...
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
Green For All was co-founded by Van Jones and Majora Carter [1] after the two had become increasingly concerned with issues of poverty and crime, as well as the lack of a solid infrastructure for "green" jobs. Rather than approach each issue separately, Jones decided to combine the two in a more unified vision and business model. [3]
The AI revolution has already minted dozens of unicorns—startups valued at $1 billion before going public. Now it could create a whole new type of startup: the one-person unicorn.