empire
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A combination would bring under one roof Musk’s main business pursuits, streamlining the sprawling empire of the world’s richest person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Among his first goals is to “outspend” both of his primary competitors, Disney and Netflix—even as his media empire faces down a multibillion-dollar debt load and a cratering stock price.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
While Wall Street is divided on when Musk will actually push to combine the crown jewels of his empire, Nelson thinks there’s a 90% chance it happens by the end of next year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Our investigation has uncovered new evidence about the way Abramovich's business empire has been run.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Their empire stretched farther than even Alexander could have imagined.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
You’re both from the Midwest, you both dropped out of college, and you both have built these political media empires.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Paramount Skydance plans to redevelop its historic Hollywood studio as it consolidates the vast Warner Bros. and Paramount real estate empires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Europe, unlike the U.S., was long a land of emigration not immigration, sending millions of its sons and daughters to the Americas and overseas empires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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