Elon Musk kicks off 2025 as the world’s richest person—and the only billionaire to date worth more than $400 billion.

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A plummeting stock price, criminal charges or simply strategic blunders can cause an otherwise exemplary career to tumble. Our annual list of career crashes illustrates how even the mightiest can fall.

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Ramon Ang’s food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel has loaded up on debt and is remaking itself into an infrastructure giant.

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Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the richest woman in the world for the last four years, now has a 12-figure fortune after L’Oréal’s stock reaches record highs.

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More than a dozen Black billionaires live in the U.S., but only these four made the 2024 Forbes 400 list.

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Bachan’s founder Justin Gill transformed his grandmother’s beloved family recipe into the fastest-growing condiment brand in America. Now he’s trying to turn it into the next Sriracha.

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The Republican nominee owes more money today than he ever did during his first presidency, according to a Forbes analysis.

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Amid India’s EV push, steel magnate Sajjan Jindal has ambitious plans to rev up production of electric cars in partnership with China’s SAIC.

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Forbes investigated and mapped out the multimillion dollar homes of CZ, Mukesh Ambani and the emirate's other ultra-rich property owners.

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Takaya Awata parlayed a tiny local diner into quick-service giant Toridoll Holdings. Now he wants to taste global success.

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