Everyone said Meredith Whitney was wildly wrong when she predicted trouble for US banks. Guess who they’re listening to now?

Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield foresaw that people could communicate with photographs – and made a killing

One of Goodwin Gaw’s real estate properties pulls in US$17 million a year from booze alone

Daniel Libeskind cooks, writes out-there poems, directs plays and builds very big, extraordinary buildings

During the Cold War, Calvin Mehlert traveled across the Pacific from Taiwan to San Francisco on the Free China. Now he’s trying to salvage it from the junk graveyard

Leukemia and a broken heel won’t stop Alan Rabinowitz from saving the world’s endangered big felines

While her friends hang at the mall gossiping about pop stars, 14-year-old Talia Leman travels the world raising millions of dollars for the needy