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I generally ignore funding announcements. Every week, I get a dozen press releases celebrating massive rounds, oversubscribed rounds, strategic rounds,…
The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hasn’t taken a day off in 3 years and can’t stop thinking about work—here’s how he keeps from burnout
Step aside, Mark Zuckerberg, Silicon Valley has a new muscle to flex in its rolodex of young founders. Billionaire Brendan…
Founder of $100 million company never unplugs from work, but encourages her team to have work-life balance: ‘They didn’t sign up to be entrepreneurs’
Founders can find it hard to step away from work when their company rests on their shoulders. The concept of…
AOL was the first destination on the internet for millions of Americans during the first dot com boom, and is…
Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the…
Gen Z coder rejected by the Ivy League despite founding a $30 million app says college is ‘not worth it for most people’
Zach Yadegari, 18, never wanted to go to college. After all, why would he need to? Cal AI, the calorie-tracking…
Meet Larry Ellison: the 81-year-old tech billionaire-turned-media mogul whose family could soon own CBS, Paramount, CNN, and TikTok
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chairman and chief technology officer, has by all means conquered the tech world. With a net worth…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’s still in founder mode—he personally handpicks staff, treats them as direct reports, and decides who stays
Airbnb may be a globally recognized, $79 billion company with around 7,300 employees, but CEO Brian Chesky says he still…
Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of Onlyfans, earned more than $1.9 million a day from the site in 2024. That’s…
Nearly two years ago venture capital’s biggest global brand Sequoia Capital split up with its China and India funds. Now,…












