Good Bad Billionaire Episodes Episode guide
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Whitney Wolfe Herd: Dating app entrepreneur
How the woman who founded dating apps Bumble and Tinder was briefly a billionaire
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Aliko Dangote: Africa’s richest person
Aliko Dangote started a cement business, and went on to become Africa’s richest person
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Zhang Yiming: TikTok’s tech boss
How Chinese tech company ByteDance became a multi-billiondollar social media business
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: Beer, brewing and biotech
How India’s first female self-made billionaire built a pharmaceutical empire
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George Soros: 'The man who broke the Bank of England'
A hedge fund tycoon who became one of the most successful investors ever
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Jerry Seinfeld: The World’s Richest Comedian
How a hit sitcom made a New York stand-up the richest comedian in history
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Peter Jackson: Lord of the Films
A blockbuster tale: How the Lord of the Rings director became a billionaire
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Miuccia Prada: ‘Ugly fashion’
How a communist mime artist became the boss of one of the world’s biggest fashion houses
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Sergey Brin: Googling billions
By founding Google, Sergey Brin helped shape the internet. He also got very, very rich
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Tiger Woods: Golf’s ‘golden boy’
Golfing superstardom made Tiger Woods rich. Personal disasters nearly took it all away
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Warren Buffett: The Oracle of Omaha
How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11.
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Jim Ratcliffe: Man U Mogul
He's spent a billion on Manchester United, but how did Jim Ratcliffe become a billionaire?
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Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics
From public feuds to private legal battles, how a country singer became a billionaire.
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Oprah Winfrey: Queen Of All Media
How Oprah became the richest African American of the 20th Century and queen of all media.
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George Lucas: Box Office Billions
How George Lucas became a billionaire filmmaker despite directing just six movies.
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Rihanna: Turning Beauty into Billions
How pop star Rihanna became the richest person from Barbados in all of history.
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Michael Jordan: Most Valuable Player
How basketball's biggest superstar became the world's first athlete billionaire.
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Bill Gates: Software Hardman
The story of the Microsoft boss who was the richest person in the world for over a decade.
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Yvon Chouinard: A $3 billion giveaway
The founder of sporting apparel firm Patagonia made billions - then gave it all away
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Warren Buffett: The oracle of Omaha
How Warren Buffett became the richest investor ever after buying his first shares at 11
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Viktor Bout: Merchant of death
How Viktor Bout made billions selling weapons to just about anyone who wanted them
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Taylor Swift: Swiftonomics
From country songs to private legal battles, how Taylor Swift became a billionaire
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Sam Bankman-Fried with Michael Lewis
The spectacular rise and fall of the FTX crypto empire, with special guest Michael Lewis.
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Sam Altman: ChatGPT and the AI revolution
Sam Altman made a billion investing in tech start-ups, but made his name through AI
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Rupert Murdoch: The Succession prequel
How Rupert Murdoch turned a failing Australian newspaper into a global media empire.
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Roman Abramovich: Premier League oligarch
How Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich got rich, then got sanctioned
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Rihanna: Turning beauty into billions
How pop star Rihanna became the richest-ever person from Barbados
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Richard Branson: Sky's the limit
From The Exorcist to 400 companies: How music sent Richard Branson into space
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Philip Green: King of the high street
How Sir Philip Green ruled over a retail empire, before it all came crashing down
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Peter Thiel: Paypal mafioso
How Peter Thiel made his fortune from huge tech companies then renounced Silicon Valley