Eddie Brown grew up as a labourer in the Jim Crow South. What he's accomplished since has left quite a legacy
Chris Roberts has spent seven years and raised nearly $300 million—most of it from average gamers—building Star Citizen. It's on pace to be the costliest video game ever made and—outside of cryptocurrency—the world's largest crowdfunded project. It's still not ready. It may never be
While the braying pack of fintech startups chase millennial money, Rhian Horgan has her eyes on her parents' cash
After his partner dropped dead in his hotel room, globe-trotting financier David Stickler found himself at the helm of a steel mill startup in rural Arkansas. Now he runs the best little high-tech, highly leveraged steelmaker in the nation
Overcoming a slew of life's liabilities, Mark and Robyn Jones built a $1.8 billion insurance empire on territory dominated by mom-and-pop shops
Real estate investors Thomas Bohjalian and Jason Yablon find bargains in luxury shopping centres and other unappreciated properties across America
Eric Lefkofsky made it big with five startups—most famously Groupon—by harnessing data. Will it work for diseases?
Customised organisms will transform the way we manufacture everything from car seats to cellphones. A group of MIT-trained scientists at $1.4 billion synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks is brewing a revolution
In three years, Rothy's saw sales of more than $140 million; now, they must balance expansion with fending off copycats
Duolingo has built a $700 million business with an addictive app that claims to teach Spanish, French, Chinese and even High Valyrian
Our annual Best Under A Billion list spotlights 200 small and midsized publicly listed enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region with sales under $1 billion and a track record of strong earnings growth