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Good Bad Billionaire

BBC World Service

How did the richest people on the planet make their billions? New episodes include: Khaby Lame, MrBeast, Cristiano Ronaldo, Sheryl Sandberg and Gautam Adani. Make up your minds whether you think they are good, bad or just another billionaire. In each episode, BBC Business Editor Simon Jack and journalist and author…

105 episodes tracked

Good Bad Billionaire

Khaby Lame: The King of TikTok

Gautam Adani: The multiple mogul

Nelson Peltz: Junk bond activist

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal: The billionaire royal

Sheryl Sandberg: Chief operator

Lord Sugar: From entrepreneur to Apprentice

The Batista brothers: Meat and money

Tao Huabi: Crispy chilli godmother

Sir Paul McCartney: The rich one - Live at Crossed Wires

Reed Hastings: Netflix’s co-founder and media disruptor

Roger Federer: The billion-dollar backhand

Luana Lopes Lara: Prediction market payout

MrBeast: The business of going viral

Cristiano Ronaldo: Football's first billionaire player

Steven Spielberg: Directing dreams and deals

Beyoncé: The business of Queen B

Toto Wolff: Mercedes's billion-dollar F1 boss

Ronnie Screwvala: The cable guy

Larry Ellison: Winning the database wars

Elizabeth Holmes: From CEO to criminal

Peggy Cherng: Engineering a fast-food fortune

Ben Francis: UK’s youngest billionaire

Lucy Guo: The woman training AI

Elon Musk: You decide!

David Geffen: The Hollywood power broker

Sara Blakely: Shaping the world with Spanx

Guy Laliberté: Cirque du Soleil’s clown turned CEO

Elon Musk: Money, memes and Mars

Luciano Benetton: Famous fashion to cultural controversy

Tyler Perry: Homeless to Hollywood entrepreneur

Lakshmi Mittal: King of steel

Michael O’Leary: Ryanair’s cost-cutting king

Diane Hendricks: Building a fortune

John Fredriksen: Tanker king

Evan Spiegel: Snapchat fratboy

Tatyana Kim: Russia’s online retail queen

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Muscles, movies, money

Encore - Film Stories: George Lucas and Peter Jackson

The dead billionaires: What do you think?

Hetty Green: The 'witch' of Wall Street

Sam Walton: Walmart’s founder

Howard Hughes: Eccentric aviator

Henry Ford: Putting the world on wheels

John D Rockefeller: The first billionaire

Eike Batista: Golden grifter

LeBron James: King of the court

Masayoshi Son: High-tech gambler

Strive Masiyiwa: Connecting a continent

Ike Perlmutter: Marvel’s empire builder

Selena Gomez: Actress, singer, beauty mogul

Orlando Bravo: Tech dealmaker

Vince McMahon: Wrestling's ringmaster

Markus Persson: Minecraft maker

John de Mol: Big Brother’s daddy

Sir James Dyson: Sucking up the cash

Martha Stewart: The original lifestyle influencer

Encore - Chuck Feeney: All duty

Encore - Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics

Peter Thiel: Paypal mafioso

Doris Fisher: Don’t mind The Gap

Carlos Slim Helú: Telecom titan

Roman Abramovich: Premier League oligarch

Mukesh Ambani: Asia’s richest person

Patrice Motsepe: Mining magnate

Jack Ma: China's ecommerce CEO

Yvon Chouinard: A $3 billion giveaway

Whitney Wolfe Herd: Dating app entrepreneur

Aliko Dangote: Africa’s richest person

Sam Altman: ChatGPT and the AI revolution

Zhang Yiming: TikTok’s tech boss

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Beer, brewing and biotech

George Soros: 'The man who broke the Bank of England'

Jerry Seinfeld: The world’s richest comedian

Peter Jackson: Lord of the Films

Miuccia Prada: ‘Ugly fashion’

Sergey Brin: Googling billions

Tiger Woods: Golf’s ‘golden boy’

Mark Zuckerberg: Move fast and get rich

Sir Richard Branson: Sky's the limit