Chase Peterson-Withorn
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I edit The Forbes 400 list and help lead @Forbes' coverage of billionaire$.
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Joined June 2014
Scoop: Robert Smith rented Donald Trump’s mansion, directly next door to Mar-a-Lago, while facing possible indictment in a massive tax-evasion case.
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Robert Smith committed historic tax crimes. Facing federal scrutiny, he moved next door to the president.
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The 50 Richest Self-Made Women On Earth
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How rich are the tech bros in the HBO movie Mountainhead? The @Forbes wealth team has the math.
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Would Ven Parish really be the wealthiest person in the world? Here’s how the characters stack up to their real-life counterparts.
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New: Last week, Anduril's mega $30B funding round underscored how hungry investors are for military startups. It also minted a new defense tech billionaire: Trae Stephens. https://t.co/gvnStSSASy
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The recent funding round led by Founders Fund valued the hot military startup at $30 billion – and made its chairman Trae Stephens the latest defense tech billionaire.
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Introducing America’s Richest #SelfMadeWomen (Illustration: Ben Kirchner for Forbes) FULL LIST: https://t.co/UwC8t8uzBV
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New from me @Forbes: Here’s how much Bill Gates would be worth if he’d never sold or given away a single share of Microsoft. https://t.co/aXVbWso9pm
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If he’d never given away a dime or sold a share of the software giant, Gates would have nearly 10 times more leftover to give away.
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Today is Donald Trump’s 100th day (back) in office. Here’s how America’s billionaires are faring so far. https://t.co/NyOkuJLh4A
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Hundreds of billionaires are poorer since Trump took office. Here are the few who have lost—or gained—the most.
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There’s a surprising name lurking in the rankings of startups that have raised the most funding this year. Infinite Reality. This obscure metaverse startup claims to have raised $3 billion on a $15 billion valuation. Not all is as it seems...
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Latest from me: Nick Saban is one of the greatest football coaches ever. He might be the most successful off the field, too. Here's a look at the man behind Saban's car dealership empire—a little-known new billionaire with many "friends" & "buddies." https://t.co/o3lGzdqWVN
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Meet the little-known car dealership billionaire, and potential future politician, who’s quietly building an empire with the college football great.
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Update: The world's billionaires lost $270 billion today at the market close, with Zuckerberg being the biggest loser of the day with a $17.9 billion decline in his fortune. Several clothing and fashion billionaires fell from the billionaire ranks entirely. Read at @Forbes
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1/ Today we launched the 2025 @Forbes World's Billionaires List, one of the largest investigative business journalism projects with 100+ reporters around the world. We found a record 3,028 billionaires in 78 countries worth a collective $16.1 trillion. https://t.co/zRCbJBbHwb
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Forbes presents the 2025 World's Billionaires List. View the richest people in the world and learn their net worth, age, country of residence, source of wealth and more.
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Steve Ells opened the first Chipotle near the University of Denver in 1993. Now—three decades and a whole lot of burritos, bowls and salads later—it's a $68 billion fast-casual juggernaut and he's (finally) a billionaire. My latest for @Forbes. https://t.co/WQoyxxs7SP
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Trump says selling $5 million "gold cards" to rich people around the world might bring in $5 trillion—or even $50 trillion—in revenue for the U.S. But will anyone really buy them? The @Forbes wealth team asked 18 billionaires. They're mostly not interested https://t.co/25dT0922QO
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NEW from me for @Forbes: @marcorubio is headed down to Panama amid Trump's demands to reclaim the country's U.S.-built canal. I spoke to industry experts about a more diplomatic solution—what if the US bought the canal? How much would it go for? https://t.co/rpmPePK78w
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President Trump is reportedly dispatching his newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Panama for his first foreign trip. Here's what's at stake.
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1/On Jan. 20, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek launched its latest model, R1. Within a week its app dethroned ChatGPT in the U.S., turning the firm and its founder, Liang Wenfeng, into household names. But how much is it worth? @_pheebini and I dug in for @Forbes: https://t.co/y6ppMfNkZ3
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In December, I made a couple of trips to Miami to sit down with Michael Saylor and dissect the $MSTR phenomenon: a 60x-plus valuation surge in four years, tens of billions raised through equity and zero-interest bonds, and volatility so high bond traders are apparently feeling
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My latest for @Forbes: a look at all of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach neighbors. https://t.co/wNswgTq8rj
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At the dawn of Trump 2.0, Palm Beach is once again the center of America’s political universe. Here’s a look at the rock stars, politicians and business bigwigs who are neighbors of the 45th—and...
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Forbes has a scoop on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni scandal today. The "It Ends with Us" costars have gotten most of the attention in the escalating dispute, but another defendant in Lively's case—who's preparing to sue her back as soon as today—is billionaire Steve Sarowitz.
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New from me @Forbes
@elonmusk starts 2025 with a record lead at the top of the @Forbes billionaires list. https://t.co/6ooM4MOO2I
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Musk’s fortune soared by a record $170 billion in 2024–putting him an all-time high dollar amount ahead of Jeff Bezos, the world’s second richest person.
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