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Lee Thiam Wah started selling snacks at a roadside stall. Now, he's Asia's latest entrepreneur to reach billionaire status. He founded the convenience store chain 99 Speed Mart and officially became a billionaire on Monday after his company went public in Kuala Lumpur. The $531 million initial public offering on Monday shattered a seven-year record in the country for the largest IPO, at 1.65 Malaysian ringgit, or $0.38, per share. This brings Lee's net worth to $3.3 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Born in 1964 in the Malaysian city of Klang, Lee grew up in a family with 11 children. His parents, a construction worker and a hawker, struggled to make ends meet, per...

When Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, she raised eyebrows when she made an incredibly rare reference to her estranged father, Donald J. Harris, praising him for inspiring her to “be fearless.” She recalled how her father had once told her, “Run, Kamala, run. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let anything stop you,” when she was playing in the park as a child. “From my earliest years, he taught me to be fearless,” she noted.Kamala paid tribute to her father in her history-making speech in front of the world at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. However, privately, her relationship with Donald, 86, is understood...

A three-bedroom Toronto home where Meghan Markle lived while dating Prince Harry and filming the TV series “Suits” spent less than a week on the market before finding a buyer. The two-story Seaton Village home listed for C$1.895 million (US$1.39 million) in late August, and sold within five days for $1.98 million, according to real estate platform Zolo.   (A three-bedroom Toronto home where Meghan Markle lived while starring in the TV series "Suits" hit the market asking C$1.895 million (US$1.39 million).Unique Vtour)   The Duchess of Sussex lived in the violet-painted home on Yarmouth Road for about two years, until late 2017, when she moved to Kensington Palace...

You might think that managers would want to avoid hiring 'annoying' people at all costs - they're the ones that have to manage them, after all. But Jeff Bezos - who, let's face it, is a very successful businessman - believes annoying people are actually part of the key to success. The Amazon founder spoke about the kind of attributes he looks for in employees during a discussion on Innovation in the Space Industry and Blue Origin in 2019. In the conversation, he shared a couple of questions that managers should be asking themselves when promoting or hiring people, including: "Does this person like to be innovative?" and "Do they have a bit of a pioneering spirit?”Bezos went on to...

Imagine living out of your car, struggling to make ends meet, and then one day deciding to send a cold email to a billionaire, hoping it might change your life. Sounds like a long shot, right? For Doug Saraci, it wasn't just a shot in the dark – it was the beginning of a journey that would turn his life around completely. In 2010, Doug and his wife were out of work and borrowed money from a family member to start a small cafe in Lake Park, Florida. The cafe offered homemade healthy oatmeal cookies, named after their daughter Alyssa. The cookies quickly became the cafe's most popular item, so the couple focused solely on them. But it wasn't easy. By 2012, Doug lived out of his...

Resumes of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, two of the most iconic figures in the world of technology, have resurfaced on social media. These vintage documents, created when they were 18, offer a rare glimpse into the early lives of two tech innovators who changed the world. The 1973 resume of Steve Jobs underlines his focus on electronics and technology. Mr Jobs, who would go on to revolutionise the tech industry with Apple, listed "electronics" and "tech" as his special abilities. Meanwhile, Bill Gates' resume, dated 1971, lists his experience with various programming languages, including FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC, and computers, including PDP-10, PDP-8,...

Bill Gates is one of the most revered—yet most intense—business leaders in history. Gates, along with Paul Allen, founded Microsoft—a company that has had a lasting impact on the software industry, and Big Tech itself. Microsoft now boasts a $3.1 trillion market capitalization. During his tenure building Microsoft, Gates infamously “didn’t believe in vacations” and worked on weekends. That same level of intensity allegedly bled into the philanthropic foundation he created with his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, according to an excerpt from Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das, published by...

(Veteran Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani has published his memoirs, Living the Asian Century, recounting his life as one of the city state's well-known envoys and public intellectuals on the global conference circuit. He sums up his life as one that progressed "from poverty to plenty") "In my early years as dean, I would meet Lee Kuan Yew personally to brief him on the school's progress. In one conversation, we agreed that we should approach Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Asia, to support the school. Mr Lee kindly agreed to give me a letter of introduction. The letter had three short paragraphs. The first paragraph introduced me to Mr Li. The second...

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A 57-year-old Filipina, who arrived in Dubai 16 years ago on a visit visa, worked as a cleaner for a French couple in Umm Suqeim. Now, Maria Paz Banaag-Marquez — known as ‘Nanay Paz' in the community — owns and runs four pastry shops across the UAE. Nanay Paz's first shop in Dubai's Satwa was small but easy to spot because of the long queues that spilled out of its doors, especially around Christmas and New Year. Her cheesecake has become the subject of numerous TikTok videos, highlighting how the Dh13 solo tub and the Dh55 round cake are worth the drive wherever you are in the UAE. “Who would have thought I could put up a business in a foreign land? That would...