Entrepreneurs

The NBA Hall of Famer is only the fourth athlete to be identified as a billionaire by Forbes.

It is undeniably a challenging landscape for Australian startups endeavouring to secure funding right now, owing to a pronounced correction in venture capital markets and the notable increase in interest rates. But Asia could present a promising funding opportunity.

Form Energy, led by a former Tesla executive and backed by Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and TPG, sees iron and rust as a low-cost solution to storing surplus energy for more than four days. 

The Triangl co-founder’s memoir strips the gloss off the lives of the mega-wealthy – and imparts some important lessons about building a business.

Forbes Australia picks out the three Aussie entrepreneurs who are making waves in the startup space right now.

While markets initially had a knee-jerk reaction to the Israel-Hamas war, with higher oil prices and lower bond yields, they’ve since calmed down, with the S&P 500 closing 1.5% higher on October 17.

Prosecutors accuse the former president of intentionally inflating the value of assets to boost his net worth.

For bigger tech companies, Israel’s mass mobilization has proven a manageable hiccup in business as usual. For smaller ones, it can pose an existential challenge.

He won 4 gold medals, competed in two paralympic sports, was Australian of the Year, and founded a non-profit for young people with disabilities. Now Dylan Alcott is pushing brands to do better in diversity representation.

There are currently only 28,420 centi-millionaires (those who hold US$100 million and above in investable assets) in the world. A new report reveals where the majority live.