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Who Is Cristiano Ronaldo?
He grew up poor on Madeira, became football’s first billionaire and the most-followed person on Instagram, and has now handed back Portugal’s No. 7…
Who Is Emma Walmsley?
She spent 17 years selling shampoo and makeup, became the first woman to run a major drugmaker, fought off activist investors, and now takes over a PC…
Who Is James Talarico?
A former sixth-grade teacher and Presbyterian seminarian set a Senate fundraising record and won in a state where Democrats hadn’t won statewide since…
Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy?
He made his fortune buying drugs other companies had shelved, ran for president at 37 and co-led DOGE for about two months. Now he wants to run the…
Who Is Brendan Whitworth?
A Marine, CIA officer and Frito-Lay salesman before he ran America’s biggest brewer, he now takes over a luxury gym chain with 118 clubs and more than…
Who Is Michael O’Leary?
He started out advising Ryanair’s founder on his taxes and has run the airline since 1994. Now he says Europe’s cheap fares are about to get more…
Who Is John Ternus?
He fell in love with Apple on his dad's Apple II, joined at 26 to work on a monitor and spent 25 years in hardware. Now he has to sell Wall Street on…
Who Is Andreas Almgren?
He played youth soccer, won a medal at 800m, worked as a data scientist and writes his own training. Then he won the New York City Marathon in his first…
Who Is Tony Xu?
He arrived in America at age five with parents who had “maybe $200 in the bank.” Now the DoorDash co-founder is making the biggest bet of his career: a…
 • Polina Pompliano
Who Is Lip-Bu Tan?
He bet against the crowd as a venture investor and built Cadence into a powerhouse. Now Intel just had its worst day on the stock in more than 50 years.
 • Polina Pompliano
Who Is Richard Teng?
The ex-regulator who took over Binance after CZ's guilty plea is trying to prove the exchange can survive the biggest crypto theft on record.
Who Is Jay-Z?
In 2019 he told the NFL commissioner that if the deal was about him performing at the Super Bowl, “we can just end this conversation now.” Seven years…
 • Polina Pompliano
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