🚀 Rise

How Mark Cuban built Broadcast.com into a dot-com phenomenon, sold it to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in stock, and protected the windfall before the internet bubble burst.

He couldn't find good software to sell snowboards online. So he wrote his own. Twenty years later, Shopify powers more than 10% of all U.S. e-commerce and has turned Tobi Lütke into Canada's most powerful technology CEO.

He was 19 years old, unknown, and broke. He wrote a 36-page whitepaper describing a new kind of blockchain and then convinced hundreds of strangers to help him build it. Twelve years later, Ethereum powers most of the decentralized internet — and Vitalik still wears the same unicorn T-shirts.

He built Oculus in his parents' garage at 17. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion at 21. He was fired at 24 over a political donation. Then he founded a defense tech company that is now worth $28 billion.

He won the Irish Young Scientist award at 16, sold his first company at 19, and co-founded a payment processor with his younger brother that now moves over $1 trillion a year.

When he took over in 2014, Microsoft was a punchline — bloated, internally at war, and mocked as a dying giant. A decade later, he had tripled revenue, crossed a $3 trillion valuation, and made Microsoft the most valuable company on Earth.

He tried to build an online game. It flopped. He tried again. It flopped again. Both times, the side tool his team built to talk to each other was better than the game. The second side tool became Slack — and sold for $27.7 billion.

He grew up sleeping on the living room floor in Chennai, memorizing phone numbers because his family couldn't afford a phonebook. Thirty years later, he runs the company that organizes the world's information.

Three designers with $25,000 in credit card debt started renting airbeds to strangers during a design conference. Fifteen years later, their company was bigger than Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt combined.

At 23, Daniel Ek was burned out, rich from internet ads, and bored. Then he decided to try something insane — convince every major record label on Earth to let him give away their music for free.

He rejected a $3 billion offer from Facebook at 23. He married a supermodel at 26. He lost 80% of his stock price at 31. Then he quietly rebuilt a company that still refuses to die.

From the gritty streets of Marcy Projects to the glistening boardrooms of global finance, Shawn 'Jay-Z' Carter didn't just rap about the hustle – he became the blueprint. This is the audacious, street-smart saga of a kid who bypassed the gatekeepers, built an empire on his own terms, and redefined what it means to be a mogul in the 21st century.

Imagine a fortune so vast it could buy small nations, built on the shimmering promise of beauty. Now imagine that empire's heiress caught in a bitter, public war with her own daughter, fueled by accusations of exploitation, political intrigue, and a cast of characters wilder than fiction. This is the saga of Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the quiet intellectual who waged a decade-long battle, not just for her family's legacy, but for her mother's very soul, ultimately emerging as the undisputed empress of L'Oréal and the world's wealthiest woman.

Valued at $47 billion, then bankrupt at zero. Now WeWork is trying the impossible: a second life. Can the most spectacular failure in startup history actually pull it off?

A $40 late fee at Blockbuster allegedly sparked the idea. Two decades later, Reed Hastings had destroyed the video rental industry, reinvented television, and built a $300 billion streaming empire.

He bought Mexico's state telephone monopoly for pennies on the dollar during a privatization fire sale. Then he turned it into a fortune that briefly surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett combined.

They met at Stanford, argued about everything, and built a search engine in a dorm room. Then they turned it into a $2 trillion empire that knows more about you than you know about yourself.

Born to an unmarried teen in rural Mississippi, sexually abused at nine, pregnant at fourteen — then she built a $2.8 billion empire that changed how America talks, reads, thinks, and buys.

He trained as an engineer, bought a bankrupt textile company for its hidden jewel, and spent four decades swallowing the world's greatest luxury brands — until he was worth more than anyone on Earth.

A lip kit, 300 million followers, and a Forbes cover that sparked a war over what 'self-made' really means. The Kylie Jenner business story, unfiltered.

From a Chicago orphan to the world's fifth-richest man — how Larry Ellison built Oracle through sheer aggression, hostile takeovers, and an unbreakable will to win.

He wired a billion humans together, survived a crisis that could have destroyed any CEO, then bet his entire empire on two futures at once — and one of them is actually working.

He quit the most lucrative hedge fund on Wall Street, drove cross-country with a business plan typed on a laptop, and started selling books out of a garage. Three decades later, Jeff Bezos had built the most dominant company on Earth — and launched himself into space.

Born in Pretoria, beaten bloody by classmates, abandoned by his father — Elon Musk's journey to becoming the world's wealthiest man is far stranger and more brutal than most people realize.