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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 88
- Years Active
- 2025
The 2025 Forbes 400 List Of Wealthiest Americans: Facts And Figures
Inside Forbes’ ranking of the richest billionaires in the United States.
00:05:30 |
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year
Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.
00:04:43 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Along the way, it discovered a more immediate cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.
00:05:05 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Chicago’s Hot Dog King Dick Portillo On Selling Out And Moving On
Dick Portillo opened a hot dog stand in Chicago with $1,100 and built it into a billion-dollar regional chain, Portillo’s. After cashing out in 2014, he bought back some stores and built a new real e…
00:04:58 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools and a $7.5 billion business. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant…
00:04:28 |
Sun 07 Sep 2025
How An AI Notetaker Became One Of The Few Profitable AI Startups
Nathan Xu’s bootstrapped company has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people — and he’s just getting started.
00:04:59 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon
Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.
00:04:45 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Waymo Is A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity. Google Just Needs To Seize It.
If Alphabet pushed the rollout of its self-driving tech company even harder, Waymo could dominate a new market with the potential to generate more revenue than its ad business.
00:04:46 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
The Top 10 Richest People In The World | September 2025
The U.S. stock market continued to sizzle in August but it wasn’t enough to lift all fortunes, as four of the world’s top 10 wealthiest people lost ground.
00:05:07 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Happy Birthday, Warren Buffett! He’s 95 And One Of 36 American Billionaires Over 90
America’s billionaires are older than ever, with one in five already in their 80s or 90s. That doesn’t mean they are necessarily slowing down.
00:04:35 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Trump’s Tariff Tidal Wave Could Drown This Coconut Water Juggernaut
When it comes to selling coconut water to the health obsessed, New York’s Vita Coco has served up a master class, schooling even giant rivals like Coke and Pepsi. Its next test will be withstanding T…
00:04:37 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Here’s Why Old Homes Suddenly Cost More Than New Ones
For most of the last 50 years, new homes have cost more than existing ones, nationally. Thanks to builder strategies, shifting home designs and a new construction glut, the trend has flipped.
00:04:56 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
The NFL’s Most Valuable Teams 2025
Football’s 32 clubs are worth $7.1 billion on average, a 25% year-over-year jump, but the Dallas Cowboys sit tall in the saddle with a record valuation for any sports franchise.
00:05:06 |
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Why AI Stocks Are Giving Some Investors Dotcom Bubble Déjà Vu
In 2000, internet darling Cisco was the world’s most valuable company. Today it's worth half as much. AI juggernauts like Nvidia and Palantir are driving the tech-bloated S&P 500 today. Buyer beware.
00:04:55 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Intel Worked With Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Enabling Human Rights Abuses
The U.S. government will take a 10% stake in the company, whose technology has been used by sanctioned Chinese surveillance and facial recognition firms including Uniview and Hikvision.
00:04:52 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
How AI And Mini-Organs Could Replace Testing Drugs On Animals
Congress and the FDA are pushing pharmaceutical companies to replace animals with technology for drug research. That’s a long way off, but startups and industry stalwarts are working to make it happe…
00:04:31 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Here’s How Much Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Are Worth
The billionaire pop star and three-time Super Bowl champion are now engaged but no “gym teacher” could afford to propose to an “English teacher” with a $650,000 diamond ring. Here’s how much he bring…
00:04:39 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Why Judges Cannot Agree On How Much Trump’s Fraud Should Cost Him
It’s difficult to measure the impact of lies. Just ask the justice who called out Trump for fraud last week, while handing him a $500 million gift.
00:04:46 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Tennis Legend Roger Federer Is Now A Billionaire
Lucrative endorsements and a stake in shoe brand On have made the Swiss star just the seventh athlete in the three-comma club—and a food tech investment may serve up another payday.
00:04:56 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
The World’s Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2025
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner are the sport’s next great rivalry—on and off the court—as they lead a group of 10 stars who collectively earned $285 million over the past year.
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Mon 25 Aug 2025
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