BBC Radio Podcasts from Good Bad Billionaire
Selena Gomez: Actress, singer, beauty mogul
How Disney star Selena Gomez became a billionaire beauty entrepreneur
Orlando Bravo: Tech dealmaker
Orlando Bravo failed to become a tennis pro, but private equity made him a billionaire
Vince McMahon: Wrestling's ringmaster
Vince McMahon turned professional wrestling into a global phenomenon
Markus Persson: Minecraft maker
How did Markus Persson create Minecraft, the most successful computer game ever?
John de Mol: Big Brother’s daddy
By reinventing reality TV, John de Mol made television history and a billion dollars
Sir James Dyson: Sucking up the cash
How a blocked vacuum cleaner led to a billion-dollar idea for inventor James Dyson
Martha Stewart: The original lifestyle influencer
Martha Stewart, the homemaker who sold perfection to America
Encore - Chuck Feeney: All duty
Revisiting the story of Chuck Feeney, a billionaire who gave it all away
Encore - Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics
A brief update after Taylor Swift's Eras tour ended, and another chance to hear her story
Peter Thiel: Paypal mafioso
How Peter Thiel made his fortune from huge tech companies then renounced Silicon Valley
Doris Fisher: Don’t mind The Gap
How American businesswoman Doris Fisher and her husband founded a clothing empire
Carlos Slim Helú: Telecom titan
Mexican telecom company boss Carlos Slim Helú was once the richest person on Earth
Roman Abramovich: Premier League oligarch
How Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich got rich, then got sanctioned
Mukesh Ambani: Asia’s richest person
How Indian multinational conglomerate boss Mukesh Ambani built Asia's biggest fortune
Patrice Motsepe: Mining magnate
How Patrice Motsepe became the first black billionaire in post-apartheid South Africa
Jack Ma: China's ecommerce CEO
How Jack Ma brought ecommerce to China by creating online mega-platform Alibaba
Yvon Chouinard: A $3 billion giveaway
The founder of sporting apparel firm Patagonia made billions - then gave it all away
Whitney Wolfe Herd: Dating app entrepreneur
How the woman who founded dating apps Bumble and Tinder was briefly a billionaire
Aliko Dangote: Africa’s richest person
Aliko Dangote started a cement business, and went on to become Africa’s richest person
Sam Altman: ChatGPT and the AI revolution
Sam Altman made a billion investing in tech start-ups, but made his name through AI
Zhang Yiming: TikTok’s tech boss
How Chinese tech company ByteDance became a multi-billiondollar social media business
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Beer, brewing and biotech
How India’s first female self-made billionaire built a pharmaceutical empire
George Soros: 'The man who broke the Bank of England'
A hedge fund tycoon who became one of the most successful investors ever
Jerry Seinfeld: The World’s Richest Comedian
How a hit sitcom made a New York stand-up the richest comedian in history
Peter Jackson: Lord of the Films
A blockbuster tale: How the Lord of the Rings director became a billionaire
Miuccia Prada: ‘Ugly fashion’
How a communist mime artist became the boss of one of the world’s biggest fashion houses
Sergey Brin: Googling billions
By founding Google, Sergey Brin helped shape the internet. He also got very, very rich
Tiger Woods: Golf’s ‘golden boy’
Golfing superstardom made Tiger Woods rich. Personal disasters nearly took it all away
Mark Zuckerberg: Move fast and get rich
How one social media site birthed an empire. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
Sir Richard Branson: Sky's the limit
From The Exorcist to 400 companies: How music sent Sir Richard Branson into space
Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Man U mogul
He's spent big on Manchester United, but how did Sir Jim Ratcliffe become a billionaire?
Bernie Ecclestone: Fast money
How Bernie Ecclestone won control of Formula One, and how it all came crashing down
Gina Rinehart: The other Iron Lady
How Gina Rinehart amassed a $30 billion fortune to become Australia's richest person
Charles Koch: Dark money’s slick operator
How oilman Charles Koch and his feuding family turned black gold into dark money
Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics
From country songs to private legal battles, how Taylor Swift became a billionaire
Warren Buffett: The oracle of Omaha
How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11
NR Narayana Murthy: India's IT innovator
The father of India's IT boom, and the father-in-law of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
Rupert Murdoch: The Succession prequel
How Rupert Murdoch turned a failing Australian newspaper into a global media empire.
El Chapo: Cocaine kingpin
The story of Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo
Jay-Z: A business, man
How hip-hop’s first billionaire, Jay-Z, went from dealing grams to winning Grammys
Michael Bloomberg: Market master
How did being fired from Wall Street lead Michael Bloomberg to a $96 billion fortune?
Patrick Soon-Shiong: Cures for cash
Why was biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong sued by his brother... and Cher?
Bill Gates: Software hardman
Bill Gates was the richest person in the world for more than a decade
Sam Bankman-Fried with Michael Lewis
The spectacular rise and fall of the FTX crypto empire, with special guest Michael Lewis.
Denise Coates: Ultimate gambler
How Bet 365 boss Denise Coates gambled it all to become the world's highest paid woman
Michael Jordan: Most valuable player
How basketball superstar Michael Jordan became the world's first billionaire athlete
Kim Kardashian: Breaking the internet
From leaked sex tape to business mogul, how Kim Kardashian leveraged fame for money
Bernard Arnault: The wolf in cashmere
French entrepreneur Bernard Arnault vies with Elon Musk to be the world's richest person
Viktor Bout: Merchant of death
How Viktor Bout made billions selling weapons to just about anyone who wanted them
George Lucas: Box office billions
How George Lucas became a billionaire filmmaker, despite directing just six movies
Oprah Winfrey: Queen of all media
How Oprah became the richest African American of the 20th Century, and queen of all media
Chuck Feeney: All duty
How Chuck Feeney built an empire selling duty free, then gave it all away to charity
Adam Neumann: The cult of WeWork
How Adam Neumann oversaw one of the most spectacular business fails in modern history
Sir Philip Green: King of the high street
How Sir Philip Green ruled over a retail empire, before it all came crashing down
Rihanna: Turning beauty into billions
How pop star Rihanna became the richest-ever person from Barbados
Jeff Bezos: Get big fast
How did Amazon boss Jeff Bezos become the first person worth over $100 billion?
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