Chad Williams didn’t appear to be a man who was going to take home $3 billion. Soft-spoken and folksy, this executive would genuinely start a board meeting with a prayer. He operated QTS for many years from Overland Park, Kansas, a sleepy suburb that hardly anyone in the data center industry would consider to be a center of anything. However, by the spring of 2025, he was listed among the new billionaires of the artificial intelligence boom, along with the founders of CoreWeave and a few executives whose names the majority of Americans still couldn’t pronounce. His route there was…
Author: James Morello
Radiate has a subtly fulfilling quality. It’s not a unicorn, loud, or attention-grabbing. It’s just a soy-wax campfire in a tin can that, by all accounts, has managed to continue, something that very few Shark Tank products can do. The company’s yearly revenue as of early 2026 is approximately $2 million, and most independent estimates place its net worth between $2.6 and $2.8 million. That’s not money from Scrub Daddy. However, it still exists and is real. Sometimes you’ll still see the little tin on a shelf, sometimes dusty, sometimes priced at $27.99, sometimes tucked next to citronella candles and…
Jeffrey Ubben has an almost paradoxical quality that makes him a fascinating subject to write about. After making his fortune by extracting profits from underperforming corporate boards, he famously declared that finance was, in his words, “basically done.” That was in 2020. He left ValueAct, the company he had spent twenty years building, and founded Inclusive Capital Partners. The money is still there six years later. He is estimated to be worth more than $3.7 billion, though the exact amount varies depending on which filing you trust and which week you are looking at. Ubben’s net worth is one of…
Eddy Burback’s career has an almost unyieldingly quiet quality, which may be the most intriguing aspect of his wealth. He is not a frequent poster. Unlike some of his peers, he doesn’t pursue virality. However, the numbers continue to rise in between the lengthy pauses and the sporadic, strangely focused commentary video about a forgotten 90s commercial. His primary YouTube channel has about 2.25 million subscribers as of mid-2026, and his videos have received over 189 million views overall. That is an odd kind of success for a creator who views the upload button as an infrequently used kitchen appliance.…
The way Hemy Neuman’s financial life ended is almost unremarkable. Not overly dramatic. Not a movie. Silence after the arduous bankruptcy filing paperwork. In 2026, inquiring about his wealth is like inquiring about the weather in a closed space. The response is that there is no longer any significant activity taking place there. Before November 2010, Neuman’s financial situation was typical of a senior engineering manager. He lived in the Atlanta suburbs, raised a family, worked at GE Energy, and earned a comfortable six-figure salary. His M&T mortgage liability was estimated at $904,448 in court documents from the bankruptcy process,…
You may have already unintentionally met Jim “Jet” Neilson if you’ve ever driven Interstate 15 between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Most travelers pass Baker, California, at eighty miles per hour, stopping only for gas or the tallest thermometer in the world. On the right afternoon, however, if you pull off close to the right gravel shoulder, you may see a man in a flight suit standing next to what appears to be a fighter jet that someone forgot to give wings. He is a T-shirt vendor. He is a photographer. Almost anything you put in front of him, he…
On the edge of a former industrial site in Northern Ireland, there’s a certain stillness that feels more like waiting than emptiness. From the coast roads near Larne to the outskirts of Antrim, you can almost imagine what these places used to be as you stroll past their overgrown verges and rusting fences. Until recently, it was more difficult to imagine what they might develop into. The unlikely Cornish experiment known as the Eden Project, which was constructed inside an abandoned china clay pit 25 years ago, now hopes to accomplish a similar goal here. Additionally, it wants schools to…
On a Tuesday morning in early spring, somewhere on the edge of a woodland in Surrey, a sixteen-year-old who hasn’t spoken in front of others for almost a year discreetly gives another teenager a knife and a length of rope and demonstrates how to start a fire. He receives no congratulations. No therapist records it. The moment goes by without comment, just like the majority of real moments do. However, the individuals in charge of the program are already aware that something has changed in him because they have seen it occur in the past. When the brochures are removed,…