Billionaires News 16 June 2025

Groww IPO Day 2: Fully Subscribed (1.47x); Retail 4.65x, GMP 11–15%; Nithin Kamath Says 20% of Applications Came via Zerodha — What Top Brokerages Recommend

Groww share price hits upper circuit; market cap crosses ₹1 lakh crore on Day 4 post‑IPO rally as CEO Lalit Keshre joins billionaire club (Nov 17, 2025)

Bengaluru/Mumbai | Monday, November 17, 2025 — Online investing platform Groww (listed as Billionbrains Garage Ventures Ltd; NSE: GROWW, BSE: 544603) sprinted to its 20% upper circuit at ₹178.23 in Monday trade, propelling its market capitalisation past ₹1 lakh crore (about ₹1.10 lakh crore) just four sessions after listing. At the day’s high, the stock was ~78% above the ₹100 IPO price, underscoring one of the strongest post‑listing runs for a mainboard IPO this year. mint+1 ‘Billionaire in four sessions’: Lalit Keshre’s stake swells The surge has catapulted cofounder‑CEO Lalit Keshre into India’s billionaire club. Economic Times’ calculations peg Keshre’s

17 November 2025

Billionaire Larry Ellison’s Fortune Plummets: Oracle Share Slump Wipes Out $24B

Stock Slide Hits Ellison’s Fortune Oracle’s spectacular AI-driven rally has turned choppy in recent days. After rocketing to all-time highs in September (briefly valuing Ellison’s stake at ~$393 B) reuters.com, profit-taking set in. The stock plunged about 7% on Oct. 17 (wiping ~$24B off Ellison’s wealth) and sank nearly 5% on Oct. 20 (erasing another ~$14B) financialexpress.com financialexpress.com. The selloff reflects a shift from “euphoria to caution,” as investors booked gains after Oracle’s string of AI contract announcements. By Oct. 23, ORCL closed around $280 ts2.tech – still roughly 70% above its January price, but down from its Sept. peak (~$345). Market watchers describe

24 October 2025

Billionaires · Business · Financial News · NYSE:ORCL · Stock Market · Technology

Billionaire Blowup: NYC’s Catsimatidis Tells Rival to Quit – Pershing Square’s Ackman Admits He “Hates Wasting Money”

Catsimatidis vs. Sliwa: Divided GOP in NYC John Catsimatidis (often described as a “grocery and radio magnate” cbsnews.com) has been a longtime supporter of conservative causes. In recent days he threw his weight behind a unified effort to defeat Mamdani by clearing the Republican field. Catsimatidis – who employs Sliwa as a radio host on his WABC station – told reporters that Sliwa should “love New York more than anything else” and drop his mayoral bid to boost Cuomo’s chances abc7ny.com foxnews.com. Catsimatidis claimed New Yorkers would view Sliwa as a hero for “doing the right thing” by quitting abc7ny.com.

21 October 2025

Billionaires · Business · Corporate Rivalry · Finance · Wall Street

Elon Musk Smashes Records by Hitting $500 Billion Net Worth—How He Got There and What It Means

Musk’s $500 Billion Milestone: Context and Implications Elon Musk’s climb to a $500 billion net worth illustrates how a sprawling tech empire can create unprecedented personal wealth. On October 1 2025, Musk became the first person ever to amass a half‑trillion dollars. Reuters calculated that at 3:55 p.m. ET his wealth reached $499.5 billion, as Tesla stock jumped nearly 4 % during trading reuters.com. Forbes’ real‑time tracker, which uses a slightly different methodology, pegged him at exactly $500 billion nypost.com. Either way, he ended the day roughly $150 billion ahead of the world’s second‑richest person, Oracle founder Larry Ellison nypost.com. How Tesla, SpaceX and xAI Propelled the Fortune The

1 October 2025

Billionaires · Business · Finance · NASDAQ:TSLA · Stock Market · Success Stories · Technology

Billionaires, Boosters & Breakthroughs: A Wild Weekend in Space (Aug 3-4, 2025)

Blue Origin launched six passengers on the NS-34 suborbital flight on Aug. 3, 2025 at 8:43 a.m. ET from West Texas, including Justin Sun who paid $28 million for a seat in 2021. NS-34 marked Blue Origin’s 13th crewed space tourism launch. SpaceX’s Starlink Group 10-30 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4, 2025 with a 28-satellite payload aboard a Falcon 9 booster B1080, on its 21st flight. Starlink 10-30 was SpaceX’s 69th Starlink launch of 2025, bringing the total Starlink satellites launched in 2025 to over 1,600. SpaceX planned to land the Falcon 9 first stage on

4 August 2025

Billionaires · Breakthroughs · Science · Space · Weekend Events

Inside the Billionaire Space Tourist Boom: History, Players, Prices, and the Future of Commercial Spaceflight

April 2001: Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist by paying about $20 million for a seat on a Russian Soyuz and spending seven days aboard the ISS. In 2004, Mojave Aerospace Ventures won the Ansari X Prize by launching SpaceShipOne, the first privately built crewed spacecraft, on back-to-back suborbital flights. The Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 established an FAA licensing framework for private space launches and created a learning period with a moratorium on new safety regulations until 2012 (extended to 2025). Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suffered a fatal crash in 2014 during a test flight. July

16 June 2025

Billionaires · Commercial Spaceflight · Future Trends · NYSE:SPCE · Space Industry · Space Tourism

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