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Polymarket favors Trump to win the election. Can the site—and its 26-year-old founder—really offer reliable predictions?
Presidential elections elevate new faces to the national stage. That includes the candidates, of course, but also figures like CNN’s…
Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation. Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another in the…
Theory Ventures has raised $450 million for its second fund, according to securities filings viewed by Fortune. The firm was…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s stake in Reddit is now worth over a billion dollars thanks to a rally in the…
Economic opportunity will be one of the biggest deciding factors for Americans headed to the polls next week. There is…
Elon Musk says there’s a 10% to 20% that AI ‘goes bad,’ even while he raises billions for his own startup xAI
Elon Musk is raising billions of dollars for his own supercharged AI, even though he says there’s still a pretty…
‘Founder mode’ startup guru Paul Graham explains why he’s not backing Trump—‘He ran the White House like a mob boss’
Paul Graham, the man behind famed startup accelerator Y Combinator, has urged American voters to reject Donald Trump at the…
The rise of Shopify, based in Ottawa, Ontario, has boosted Canada’s tech scene in recent years. But what’s it actually…
Gili Raanan’s VC firm Cyberstarts perfected the playbook for launching multi-billion-dollar security startups like Wiz. But questions about a profit-sharing…
Inside JD Vance’s wealth: From hillbilly beginnings to a bestselling author with three homes and millions in assets
JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, isn’t anywhere close to as wealthy as his running mate—but he just might…