Walmart heirs are having a good 2025 with the retail stock trading near all-time highs. Three of Sam Walton's children are now worth more than Bill Gates.

Melinda French Gates has long adhered to the principle, “to whom much is given, much is expected.” Her daughters are carrying that forward. “We’re not people who sit around and eat bonbons,” says Jenn ...

Bill Gates almost skipped his meeting with Warren Buffett in 1991, but a push from his mother led to a daylong conversation that reshaped his business thinking and began a long friendship.