Michael Lee-Chin: Success Through Leadership, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Portland Holdings Chairman and billionaire Michael Lee-Chin delivers the opening keynote on May 15, 2008 at the Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lee-Chin shares...
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No. 8: Michael Lee-Chin, The Billionaire Investor
Founder and chairman of Portland Holdings Inc., a privately held investment company in Burlington, Ontario, Jamaican-born Michael Lee-Chin started investing at age 32 and used the proceeds to acquire...
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No. 6: Oprah Winfrey, The Media Powerhouse
Oprah Winfrey is among the shrewdest of entrepreneurs as well as one of the most ubiquitous brands, influencing the buying decisions of millions worldwide. Since 1986, she has transformed Harpo Inc....
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No. 2: Robert L. Johnson, The Power Player
Robert L. Johnson made business history when he took BET public in 1991, the first time a black-owned company was traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2000, he sold the cable network to Viacom...
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What’s REALLY Keeping You Out of the One Percent?
What separates the haves from the have nots? Why do some of us become millionaires, even billionaires, while the majority of the rest of us barely get beyond just making ends meet? According to a new...
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Oprah Poised to Sell Organic Food and Beauty Products
Through her Favorite Things segment, Oprah Winfrey has literally turned small business owners into millionaires, and now it looks like the billionaire media mogul is gearing up to endorse her own brand...
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Nigerian Businesswoman Beats Oprah As the World’s Richest Black Woman
(Image: Forbes.com) According to Ventures Africa, media mogul Oprah Winfrey is no longer the richest black woman in the world thanks to the fortunes of Nigerian entrepreneur Folorunsho Alakija....
View ArticleMichael Jordan Most Famous New Billionaire in the World
Out of the 290 newcomers to the Forbes billionaires list, Forbes has deemed Michael Jordan as the most famous newbie, according to a March article at Forbes.com. Forbes estimates Jordan’s worth at an...
View ArticleMichael Jordan At Bottom Of Sports Billionaires List
So many aspire to be a celebrity or an athlete simply because the words “fame” and “fortune” are typically conjunctive in a statement. But the words fame and fortune being joined together regularly...
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Top 20 Cities with The Most Billionaires
If the saying that you are who you hang around is true, then you may want to consider moving to one of these wealthy cities. Forbes did a break down of the cities across the globe with the most...
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Report: Number of Female Billionaires Outpacing Men
Though women still have a long way to go in terms of equality in salaries and other aspects of the business world, a group of the wealthiest in the group seems to be on the uptick. A new report shows...
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45 Great Moments in Black Business – No. 23: America’s First Black...
This year, BLACK ENTERPRISE celebrates the 45th anniversary of its roster of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses—The BE 100s. To commemorate the significance of this collective’s widespread...
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45 Great Moments in Black Business – No. 22: Oprah Winfrey’s Becomes First...
This year, BLACK ENTERPRISE celebrates the 45th anniversary of its roster of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses—The BE 100s. To commemorate the significance of this collective’s widespread...
View Article45 Great Moments in Black Business History – No. 17: The Rise of a Black Oil...
BLACK ENTERPRISE celebrates the 45th anniversary of its roster of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses—The BE 100s. To commemorate the significance of this collective’s widespread impact on...
View Article45 Great Moments in Black Business – No. 13: Black Tech Firm Makes Fortune...
BLACK ENTERPRISE celebrates the 45th anniversary of its roster of the nation’s most successful black businesses—The BE 100s. To commemorate the significance of this collective’s widespread impact on...
View ArticleOprah Winfrey’s Net Worth Peaks and Lands Her on the Bloomberg Billionaires...
Despite already amassing an abundance of wealth, success, and notoriety, Oprah Winfrey has managed to reach yet another milestone. On Tuesday, it was announced that the 64-year-old media mogul became...
View ArticleBlack Billionaire Robert F. Smith, Just Made Another $3 Billion with Sell to...
Vista Equity, the private equity firm launched by black billionaire and engineer Robert F. Smith, announced it is selling a cloud-service company it purchased in 2016, Marketo, to Adobe, for $4.7...
View ArticleMorehouse Receives $1.5 Million from Black Billionaire Robert F. Smith
Founder and CEO of Vista Equity and black billionaire, Robert F. Smith donated $1.5 million to Morehouse College, according to a statement released by the school. A million dollars of the money will go...
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America’s Black Billionaires: The Richest African Americans in 2019
Earlier this month, Forbes published its annual World’s Billionaires list, which ranks the richest people around the world based on the wealth they’ve accumulated using stock prices and exchange rates...
View ArticleThe Investing Habits of Wealthy Black People
Black households earning $200,000 or more are among the fastest growing groups in the U.S. This is rarely addressed in discussions about black wealth, as the media and politicos focus so much...
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