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Time of India
15-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Ukrainians beat Russians in the US Forbes billionaires list
Forbes' list of America's richest immigrants reveals a surge to 125 foreign-born billionaires, holding a collective $1.3 trillion. Ukraine now leads Russia in billionaire representation, with notable figures like WhatsApp's Jan Koum and OnlyFans' Leonid Radvinsky contributing significantly to the immigrant wealth landscape. These individuals have made substantial impacts across various industries. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Check the names of Russians and Ukrainians on the list of 125 immigrant billionaires Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Forbes has released a list of America's 125 richest immigrants. The list reveals that there are now 125 foreign-born American billionaires living in the US. The total exceeds the 92 listed in 2022. These immigrants represent 43 countries and account for 14% of all US billionaires. Collectively, they hold a record $1.3 trillion—18% of the country's $7.2 trillion in billionaire reports that Ukraine has overtaken Russia on the list of billionaires in America, with Ukraine having four and Russia three names on the Brin has a net worth of $139.7B. He left his role as president of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in December 2019 but still serves on the board and remains a controlling shareholder. According to Forbes, he emigrated to the U.S. from Russia at age 6 due to anti-Semitism faced by his family. Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after meeting at Stanford University during their graduate studies in computer science. Google went public in 2004 and restructured under Alphabet in 2015. Brin has reportedly invested $250 million in LTA Research, his high-tech airship Olenicoff has a net worth of $8.3B. He was born in Iran, where his Tzarist-connected parents had moved to escape the Soviet Revolution. He moved to the U.S. at age 15 and eventually built up a substantial real estate empire. His Olen Properties owns 8 million square feet of office space and over 17,000 residential units in California and seven other U.S. daughter and heir apparent, Natalia Ostensen, assists in running the day-to-day operations. In 2007, Olenicoff pleaded guilty to lying on his tax return about keeping $200 million in offshore accounts and agreed to pay $52 million in back taxes and fraud Shikin has a net worth of $1.7B. He is the chief technology officer of AppLovin, a marketing software and mobile game maker that went public at a $25 billion valuation in 2021. He owns 1% of AppLovin and served as vice president of engineering for eight years before being tapped as CTO in is one of eight billionaires from AppLovin, which has seen its market capitalization more than triple as a public joining AppLovin in 2012, Shikin worked for four years as a software engineer at Device Anywhere, a cloud-based platform for testing and monitoring mobile websites and apps. Born in Russia, Shikin has a master's in mathematics from Saint Petersburg State Koum has a net worth of $16.9B. He cofounded WhatsApp, now the world's biggest mobile messaging service, in 2009. Facebook bought the startup for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. He resigned as CEO of WhatsApp in April 2018 and announced he would leave Facebook's board as worked at Yahoo for nearly nine years before leaving to found WhatsApp. Now, he invests through his firm Newlands, which holds nearly 10 million Meta shares and is building a portfolio of Radvinsky has a net worth of $3.8B. He is the owner of OnlyFans, the U.K.-based video and social site popular with online creators, especially adult entertainers. Born in Ukraine, he founded a adult website referral business called Cybertania while he was a student at Northwestern 2018, Radvinsky bought a stake in OnlyFans from the U.K.-based Stokely family, who founded it in 2016. The company reported $1.3 billion of revenue in 2023, as users spent a record $6.6 billion on the platform. Radvinsky paid himself $1.1 billion in dividends from 2021 through Polsky has a net worth of $2.5B. He moved to America from Soviet Ukraine with his wife in 1976 with $500. He was born in Ukraine. Invenergy is seeking to build 1,000 wind turbines in western Kansas and an 800-mile power line to carry their power east. For $7 billion. Sold natural gas generator SkyGen to Calpine for $450 million in 2001. Invenergy now owns more than 10,000 megawatts, including nearly 7,000 wind turbines. In 2006, an Illinois divorce court ordered him to pay his wife Maya $180 Levchin has a net worth of $2.1B. He is a cofounder and CEO of Affirm Holdings, a fintech lending company that helps people pay for items like cameras and dresses in installments. Before Affirm launched in 2014, Levchin cofounded PayPal, gaming company Slide, and fertility-tracking app owns nearly 11% of Affirm. When it went public in January 2021, the stock doubled, bringing its market value to $24 billion. As of early March 2024, the market value was $11 billion. Affirm posted revenues of nearly $1.6 billion in the year through June 2023 and had a net loss of $985 million. In 1991, Levchin and his family emigrated from Ukraine to Chicago as Jewish refugees; they arrived with just $700.
The Star
19-06-2025
- Business
- The Star
Local chain donates 4,600kg of cat food to support animal rescuers
A local cat food and accessories wholesale and retail chain here donated 4,600kg of cat food worth RM50,000 to Shikin's Team Animal Rescuer (Star). The official handover ceremony, held at Cat Supermarket's outlet here on Thursday (June 19), was attended by the outlet's founders, Datuk Chew Chert Fong and Datin Felicia Cheng Yee Ling. 'This contribution will provide essential relief to hundreds of cats currently under the care of shelters and independent rescuers, many of whom face ongoing challenges in securing sufficient food,' said Chew. He also said that the animal rescuers would be responsible for managing and distributing the food to various shelters and individual rescuers across the state. This was the first time such targeted assistance was extended to feline rescue initiatives in the state.
