When Robyn Fenty, known to the world as Rihanna, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, she sought to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere (feel) included.” #SelfMadeWomen
A perhaps unintended consequence: The beauty line has helped her enter one of the world’s most exclusive ranks: Billionaire #SelfMadeWomen
Rihanna is now the wealthiest female musician in the world and second only to Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer. But it’s not her music that’s made her so wealthy. Learn more here on.forbes.com/6017yiSPP#SelfMadeWomen
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The fortunes of the nation’s richest self-made women soared 31% in our seventh annual ranking to $118 billion, amid a stock market boom on.forbes.com/6019ycRZS#SelfMadeWomen
A record 26 are now billionaires, including pop star mogul Rihanna and 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki #SelfMadeWomen
The case for California: why stories about the Golden State’s demise are overblown on.forbes.com/6016H7kbM
California, with the world’s fifth-largest economy, has topped the U.S. economy for growth in gross domestic product for each of the past 10 years – including the 2020 pandemic year, when California GDP growth contracted less than in the U.S. overall
While exits from San Francisco in the Q2 through Q4 of 2020 were 31% higher than during the same period in 2019, there was no pronounced change or evidence of a California exodus. More than three-quarters of San Franciscans who moved in 2020 stayed in the state
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez have officially called it quits, splitting up one of the world’s richest power-couples on.forbes.com/6011H2wZF by @WallStManeet
J. Lo is one of America’s wealthiest self-made women with a net worth of more than $150 million from her music, film and endorsements on.forbes.com/6011H2wZF
A-Rod one of the top earning athletes ever, has amassed a fortune of at least $400 million based on Forbes estimates on.forbes.com/6011H2wZF
Even with the return of the NHL and NBA in their “bubbles,” MLB’s shortened season and months of mostly fan-free NFL Sundays, the revenue losses for the NCAA and the four major U.S. sports leagues have now hit at least $14.1 billion so far, according to Forbes estimates
And that doesn’t include the hit to the players. Total earnings for the Forbes 100 Highest-Paid Athletes fell for the first time in four years in 2020
One year after the WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, the “new normal” is a reality that has affected nearly every aspect of our daily lives
Forbes profiled these leaders and pioneers over the course of this remarkable year. Below is a sample of those who reinvented the world when we needed it most
Average team values are up 4%, the smallest gain since 2010, but the NBA’s financial outlook is still bright with big market teams particularly attractive on.forbes.com/6019Hg3Eh
A dozen of the NBA’s 30 franchises are valued at $2 billion or more, with the six most valuable of them representing nearly two-thirds of the total franchise value gains over the past 12 months
The Chicago Bulls ranked No. 4 this year with a value of $3.3 billion