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Good Bad Billionaire Episodes

  1. Oprah Winfrey: Queen Of All Media

    How Oprah became the richest African American of the 20th Century and queen of all media.

  2. George Lucas: Box Office Billions

    How George Lucas became a billionaire filmmaker despite directing just six movies.

  3. Rihanna: Turning Beauty into Billions

    How pop star Rihanna became the richest person from Barbados in all of history.

  4. Michael Jordan: Most Valuable Player

    How basketball's biggest superstar became the world's first athlete billionaire.

  5. Bill Gates: Software Hardman

    The story of the Microsoft boss who was the richest person in the world for over a decade.

  6. Zhang Yiming: TikTok’s tech boss

    How Chinese tech company ByteDance became a multi-billiondollar social media business

  7. Yvon Chouinard: A $3 billion giveaway

    The founder of sporting apparel firm Patagonia made billions - then gave it all away

  8. Whitney Wolfe Herd: Dating app entrepreneur

    How the woman who founded dating apps Bumble and Tinder was briefly a billionaire

  9. Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha

    How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11.

  10. Viktor Bout: Merchant of Death

    How an arms dealer made billions selling weapons to just about anyone who wanted them.

  11. Tiger Woods: Golf’s ‘golden boy’

    Golfing superstardom made Tiger Woods rich. Personal disasters nearly took it all away

  12. Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics

    From public feuds to private legal battles, how a country singer became a billionaire.

  13. Sergey Brin: Googling billions

    By founding Google, Sergey Brin helped shape the internet. He also got very, very rich

  14. Sam Bankman-Fried with Michael Lewis

    The spectacular rise and fall of the FTX crypto empire, with special guest Michael Lewis.

  15. Sam Altman: ChatGPT and the AI revolution

    Sam Altman made a billion investing in tech start-ups, but made his name through AI

  16. Rupert Murdoch: The Succession Prequel

    How a young man turned a failing Australian newspaper into a global media empire.

  17. Roman Abramovich: Premier League oligarch

    How Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich got rich, then got sanctioned

  18. Rihanna: Turning Beauty into Billions

    How pop star Rihanna became the richest person from Barbados in all of history.

  19. Richard Branson: Sky's the Limit

    From The Exorcist to 400 companies, how music sent the Virgin entrepreneur to space.

  20. Philip Green: King of the High Street

    How Sir Philip Green ruled over a retail empire before it all came crashing down.

  21. Peter Jackson: Lord of the Films

    A blockbuster tale: How the Lord of the Rings director became a billionaire

  22. Patrick Soon-Shiong: Cures for Cash

    Why was a brilliant surgeon and biotech billionaire sued by his brother... and Cher?

  23. Patrice Motsepe: Mining magnate

    How Patrice Motsepe became the first black billionaire in post-apartheid South Africa

  24. Oprah Winfrey: Queen of All Media

    How Oprah became the richest African American of the 20th Century and queen of all media.

  25. 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.

  26. Mukesh Ambani: Asia’s richest person

    How Indian multinational conglomerate boss Mukesh Ambani built Asia's biggest fortune

  27. Miuccia Prada: ‘Ugly fashion’

    How a communist mime artist became the boss of one of the world’s biggest fashion houses

  28. Michael Jordan: Most Valuable Player

    How basketball's biggest superstar became the world's first athlete billionaire.

  29. Michael Bloomberg: Market Master

    Why being fired from Wall Street led to $96 billion and a failed presidential campaign.

  30. Mark Zuckerberg: Move Fast and Get Rich

    How one social media site birthed an empire. The story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.

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