Good Bad Billionaire

Publisher:
BBC

Good Bad Billionaire

5.0/5

Critic Rating

How did the richest people on the planet make their billions? From Selena Gomez to Jeff Bezos, and now we find out about five dead billionaires. Meet pioneers who helped build the United States of America: the world’s first billionaire John D Rockefeller, motor magnate Henry Ford, the aviator and filmmaker Howard Hughes, Walmart founder Sam Walton, and Hetty Green - once dubbed “The Witch of Wall Street”. These iconic billionaires may be long dead, but their fingerprints are all over modern industry - in business trusts, IPOs, and mass production. They did it all first, but how did they m...


Critic Reviews

Score: 5

Clara Molot • Air Mail Sep 13, 2023

"Are they good, bad, or average billionaires? Don’t worry, Rihanna is indeed one of the good ones."

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Score: 5

Hollie Richardson • The Guardian Aug 31, 2023

"They start with the obvious – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – before digging into pop star Rihanna’s riches, and then the more secretive figures who most of us don’t even know about yet who have incredible power."

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