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Supreme’s 50 per cent sale to Carlyle Group didn’t just represent a rags to riches story of a NY skateshop capitalising on anti-capitalism, it constituted the first ever investment by a large private equity firm in a streetwear brand. When James Jebbia founded Supreme in the SoHo neighb…
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson ruled the skies with his airline. Now, the unconventional entrepreneur and philanthropist is aiming even higher. Sir Richard Branson could be forgiven for looking a little worn out. In the week prior up to our meeting, he visited Singapore, Malay…
Founded just four years ago, Tinder has launched a slew of offshoot platforms – including the exclusive and secretive Tinder Select – and has forever changed the game of love. Like many good love stories, this one begins on a night out. It is spring 2012, and a group of young men sit hu…
GORDON CAMPBELL GRAY WHY DID YOU BECOME AN HOTELIER? I first considered becoming an hotelier when, as a young boy we visited as a family a supposedly grand hotel, and I was struck as to how ordinary I thought it was compared to our own home, and I thought: “I could do this better…
The Beirut-based Zovighian family's youth-focused venture treats social responsibility as core business, working with millennials who crave meaning at work to cultivate the kind of employee profiles employers increasingly seek.
Born in 1985, Prince Mohammed bin Salman grew up overshadowed by three accomplished half-brothers, among them an astronaut and an Oxford-educated scholar, before his father, King Salman, transformed his prospects entirely.
They may be impatient and love selfies but Millennials are also the first generation in history to be worse off than their parents. Here are some exceptions to that rule. AYAH BDEIR Bdeir is a 33-year-old graduate of engineering from AUB who got a Master’s at MIT before founding …
The Seddiqi Holdings marketing chief explains how she turned a family watch-retail empire into an educational, non-commercial gathering that is placing Dubai firmly on the international horology map.
Ahmad Aweidah commutes more than an hour past Israeli checkpoints to reach PEX headquarters in Nablus. Movement restrictions can be punishing; one delay stretched to seven hours, another forced him to abandon his car entirely.
The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX is not one to shy away from outlandish goals. His latest, unveiled to a rapt crowd in Guadalajara, involves colonising Mars through manned missions intended to begin as soon as 2022.
Tadashi Yanai started out making fashion at knockdown prices. Then he saw a future in simple, quality clothing. Now the owner of Uniqlo wants to turn his retail company into something that matters. As he approaches an age others may consider retiring at, Tadashi Yanai, the most successf…
Sometimes there comes a story of someone overcoming adversity such as war, poverty, and displacement – to achieve beyond expectation. The story of Mark Haidar is one of those. In 2011, Mark Haidar and his business partner Scott Harper pooled their combined savings of just 50 USD to foun…