Cross Border
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The Croesus of Crypto: How Sam Bankman-Fried built a $22.5 billion fortune without really believing in cryptocurrency
The FTX co-founder built his fortune before his 30th birthday by profiting from the cryptocurrency frenzy. Now, he just wants his wealth to survive long enough to give it all away
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Covid-19's entrepreneur explosion: Why America will never go back to business as usual
High unemployment, the magnifying power of the web and fresh fintech financing are fuelling an eruption of startups not seen in decades
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How Veritas Capital's Ramzi Musallam turned tragedy into the American dream
After the shock suicide of founder Robert McKeon, (now) billionaire Musallam convinced investors to take a bet on him, then the second-highest ranking executive in Veritas. Today, its assets have grown from a humble $2 billion to a whopping $36 billion
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He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire with a $28 billion startup
Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code—and he wanted to give it away for free. But few would take it unless he charged for it. Now his startup is worth $28 billion, and the career academic is a billionaire with a reputation as one of the best CEOs in the Valley
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The irony of being Adam Wyden: When you're a top hedge fund manager but your father is a tax-the-rich champion
In the last 10 years, hedge fund investor Adam Wyden made his investors 11 times richer, and made $100 million for himself, by uncovering hidden stock gems. His biggest worry? That his father, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, will tax his gains to death
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Why is it difficult for foreign-born entrepreneurs to start businesses in today's America?
From Google to Tesla, immigrants have built some of America's biggest and most valuable companies. But it is now getting tougher, and may even become impossible for the next-generation of immigrant entrepreneurs to carve their niche
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Reversing the flow
Michael S Smith bet big—and wrong—that the US would need to import liquefied natural gas. Now he's poised to mint money from his $14 billion LNG export terminal
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Bootstrapping your way to a billion-dollar valuation
Most tech unicorns are the product of Silicon Valley's well-oiled VC machine. Not Cloudinary. The maker of marketing software was profitable from day one
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Sesame Street smart: Building a multibillion-dollar solar energy empire
Dean Solon built a multibillion-dollar fortune in solar energy by manufacturing gear that can be made cheaply in China. His secret: Higher prices for higher quality
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Being an old-school fundamentals guy in the era of Amazon, Tesla, GameStop and Bitcoin
Growth, momentum and investor psychology are the most important drivers of success on Wall Street today. But at 85, street legend Carl Icahn is one of the last remaining OG corporate raiders who still like asset- and cash-rich companies in need of a shake-up
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From a dusty web relic to showstopper: How Anjali Sud transformed Vimeo
Vimeo wasted its youth striving to be an oddball combo of Netflix and a commercial-free YouTube. After a hard refocus on business users, CEO Anjali Sud has transformed the near-forgotten brand into a $6 billion blockbuster