Blair Hull is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Matlock Capital, a private financial investment firm based in Chicago that works in the areas of financial engineering, systems, and investments.
Starting with the goal of establishing one of the world’s premier market-making firms, Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company in Chicago in 1985; an organization […]
Millionaires have more in common with each other than just their bank accounts - for some millionaires, striking it rich took courage, salesmanship, vision and passion. Find out which traits are most common to the seven-figure bank account set, and what you can do to hone some of these skills in your own life.
1. Independent […]
One of my former competitors once cornered me at a party a couple of months after she’d been relieved of her duties. “How did you always know who to put on the cover?” She was referring to the fact that while I was editor of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL!, we’d often take chances putting rising stars […]
1. Matt Maddox
CFO & Treasurer
Wynn Resorts (WYNN)
Age: 34
2008 Total compensation*: $17.66 million
The house may always win, but Wynn Resorts’ CFO is on a streak: Since joining the company in 2002 to head financial operations at the Wynn Resort in Macau, Maddox rose quickly up the corporate ladder and last year was promoted to CFO of […]
Are all bankers evil? Maybe not. Over the past year, it’s become fashionable to trash Wall Street for unbridled greed and the rapacious use of billions in taxpayer bailout funds. Much of the outrage is justified, since Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup stoked the flames that nearly torched […]
According to a study of college students at the Ernst & Young International Intern Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida, 59 percent of these young leaders expect to be millionaires within their lifetime. What’s more, 5 percent of them expect to hit the million-dollar mark while in their 20s.
And the super-rich are a growing group. The […]
For our fifth annual roundup, BusinessWeek readers nominated a record number of young entrepreneurs. Meet the 25 most impressive
Welcome to our fifth annual roundup of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs. Before we get started examining the new batch, consider this question: Who is more likely to start a business: A college student or a […]
Want to become a billionaire? Up your chances by dropping out of college, working at Goldman Sachs or joining Skull & Bones.
Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made?
We get these questions a lot, and decided it was time to go beyond […]
Cuban, a former bartender, cashed in on the tech boom in 1999 with the sale of his video portal Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion. He used the proceeds to buy pro basketball’s Dallas Mavericks from Ross Perot in 2000 for $280 million. The team has been to the playoffs every season since.
Born 1948 in impoverished Guangzhou, Guangdong, with family roots in nearby Shunde, Lai was educated to the level of fifth grade.
Smuggled to Hong Kong aboard a small boat at the age of 12, Lai worked as a child-laborer in a garment factory for a wage of $8 per month.
Rising to the level of factory manager, […]
