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Jeff Bezos is CEO of Amazon, a company he founded out of his garage in 1994 and built into the trillion-dollar corporation it is today. Bezos has amassed a fortune of $197.8 billion, making him the wealthiest individual in the world. Amazon employs over 1 million people and does $350+ billion a...

Bernard Arnault is Chairman and CEO of fashion conglomerate LVMH and has a massive $181.7 billion fortune. LVMH’s holdings include well known brands Louis Vuitton, Sephora, Christian Dior, Tiffany & Co, as well as others. Arnault made his money by buying Christian Dior in 1985 for $15 million...

Elon Musk has been working to revolutionize transportation, both in space and on Earth. Musk made his original fortune after founding and selling PayPal, an online payment processing service. He is now the CEO of Tesla, an electric car company in which he has a 21% ownership stake. He also owns...

Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft and is known for the philanthropic efforts of his charitable foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The charity has targeted a variety of issues and diseases around the world, and in May 2020 it pledged $300 million to fight the coronavirus pandemic...

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, the social network that quickly took over the internet in the mid 2000’s. He owns about 15% of the stock, making him worth $111.6 billion. He founded the company in 2004 while attending Harvard, dropping out after the website started to take off. Zuckerberg took...

Larry Ellison is cofounder, chairman, and CTO of the technology giant Oracle. He owns 35% of the company, bringing his net worth to $104.6 billion. He gave up the role of CEO in 2017 after nearly 40 years at the helm. In 2012, Ellison purchased most of the Hawaiian island Lanai for ~$300...

Warren Buffet is known as one of the most successful investors of all time, raking in a fortune of $102.9 billion over his lifetime. He runs Berkshire Hathaway, a firm that owns over 60 companies from Geico to Duracell. Buffet has promised to donate over 99% of his wealth as a part of his...

Larry Page, the other half of Google, comes in with a slightly higher net worth of $99.1 billion. He’s a few billion closer to the $100B club than Brin and originally served as the CEO of Google. He stepped down as CEO in 2001 when Eric Schmidt took over, but reclaimed the role from 2011-2015...

Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, has a net worth of $96 billion. He founded the company in 1998 after meeting Larry Page at Stanford while both were studying for advanced computer science degrees. Google went public in 2004, quickly launching both Brin and Page into billionaire status. In 2015...

Coming in last (if there is such a thing when ranking multi-billionaires), Amancio Ortega is a Spanish entrepreneur with a net worth of $79.0 billion. He cofounded Inditex, a fashion company best known for its international clothing chain Zara. Inditex has 8 brands with over 7500 stores...

As Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk continue to trade back and forth for the title of “Wealthiest Person Alive”, we thought it would be interesting to compile a list of the 10 most successful businessmen in the world. We used Forbes real time data (live as of 4/1/2021) to make the list and excluded...

British man George King, also known by his very appropriate nickname “Daredevil”, recently scaled a 400ft skyscraper in Spain. The building, 4-star Melia Barcelona Sky hotel, is in the middle of Barcelona and is known for its glass walls. King managed to climb it in around 20 minutes, which is...

I spent years working on a dual monitor setup and just recently purchased an ultrawide monitor to replace them in my home office. The monitor I bought is an 34” Acer CB342CK (3440x1440) with a 21:9 aspect ratio, and I only use it for “standard” office work (no video editing, photoshop, gaming...

On February 20, 2021, United Airlines flight 328 made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff from Denver due to an engine failure. Flight 328 was 4 minutes into its flight to Honolulu when the right engine failed and caught fire. 20 minutes later, the pilots successfully landed the plane...

Who doesn’t love a good French fry? There are hundreds of restaurants to choose from, but not all French fries are created equal. After a thorough (and tasty) analysis, we have compiled a list of our favorite Fast-Food fries. Navigate through using the NEXT button below.

Once a year, people from all over the world gather at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucester, England for the annual cheese rolling competition. The sport involves a 200 yard hill, trained athletes, and rounds of Double Gloucester cheese rolling at speeds up to 70mph. The goal is relatively simple: catch...

Very few NFL quarterbacks have the opportunity to compete in a Super Bowl, and even fewer actually win one. From that select group of Super Bowl winners, an even smaller group of QB’s have won multiple. We compiled a list of these QB’s and ranked them from fewest wins to most. Please navigate...

Reaching speeds of over 2400mph (Mach 3.2), the SR-71 “Blackbird” has cemented itself in history as the fastest plane in the world. It was so purpose built that the plane actually leaked fluid when it wasn’t flying, as the connections and hoses were designed to perform in high heat/high stress...

We’ve all been locked up for a long time. We don’t go out like we used to, we don’t travel like we used to, we don’t do much of anything like we used to. All this extra time at home has created an opening for some new snack foods in your mundane life. You’re tired of the same quick bites that...