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After a $4.1 million auction, Mad Dog Jones is NFT royalty

Mad Dog Jones sold an NFT for $4.1 million at Phillips last month, a first for the auction house. It’s a sign of the coming wave of NFTs becoming part of mainstream art.

Ivan De Luce

5.5.21 4:00 PM in People

Why you're being followed by a high-end dandruff shampoo — the savvy ways DTC firms market themselves online

Christie Smythe

5.4.21 7:56 PM

Forget NFTs! Emoji-based crypto links are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars

Joon Ian Wong

5.5.21 11:00 AM

Video

A talent agent explains how YouTube kids and family content mushroomed into a multi-million-dollar business

Julia Gray

5.4.21 6:30 PM

Markets

Ivan De Luce

Crocs shares are surging 16% amid record Q1 sales and sold out Lightning McQueen shoes

Pandemic fashion and celebrity and pop-culture collabs were the key factors that led to the foam shoe maker's record Q1 earnings.

Airlines are finally adding jobs — but will enough passengers want to fly?

Christie Smythe

4.23.21 4:23 PM

Richard Branson's 23andMe bid is a bet on a genetic testing renaissance

Ivan De Luce

4.23.21 3:00 PM

UiPath, now valued at $35 billion, just went public. Here’s everything you need to know.

Ivan De Luce

4.22.21 4:00 PM

One year later, Luckin Coffee is a shadow of its former self

Danny Konstantinovic

4.22.21 2:00 PM

Bitcoin is nursing its Coinbase hangover, but DOGE is still partying

Christie Smythe

4.19.21 2:14 PM

Tech

Ivan De Luce

Coinbase, now valued at $85 billion, has gone public. Here’s what you need to know.

Coinbase’s direct listing could come as Bitcoin, and the company’s valuation, hit record highs.

Exclusive interview: The Iranian grad student who scraped Clubhouse explains why he did it, and that it's not "hacking"

Christie Smythe

4.13.21 8:19 PM

Meet the battery startups rushing to get a piece of Biden's billions in EV credits

Christie Smythe

4.5.21 10:03 PM

Google is leading the way in Big Tech's hiring (and real estate) boom

Julia Gray

3.30.21 5:00 PM

Google, Twitter and Facebook CEOs are going through stages of grief over possible loss of Section 230

Christie Smythe

3.26.21 4:08 PM

People are stealing over $10,000 in NFTs, and victims can't do anything about it

Julia Gray , Ivan De Luce

3.15.21 5:00 PM

Innovation

Karen Fischer

How 3 indie cosmetic company founders are upending mainstream beauty

These three founders saw opportunity in the beauty industry's flaws.

These sex tech startup founders are mixing data with pleasure

Rebecca Aydin

4.15.21 2:00 PM

How Oatly went from foodie fad to $10 billion IPO

Jael Goldfine

4.13.21 5:30 PM

"Is it working?" Does it matter? Functional mushrooms and CBD thrived during the pandemic

Lucy Dean Stockton

3.25.21 8:00 PM

How hard seltzer became the alcohol industry’s party trick

Julia Gray , Jael Goldfine

3.23.21 6:00 PM

The business of dating apps: How do swipes actually make money?

Jael Goldfine

3.1.21 5:15 PM

Features

The Founders Index: Tracking the wealth of tech's top entrepreneurs

Introducing the Founders Index: your daily scoreboard of the rising wealth of tech's 75 most successful founders.

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are administering vaccines the fastest

Julia Gray

5.3.21 6:15 PM

COVID vaccine tracker: Here's which states are lagging behind in vaccine distribution

Julia Gray

5.3.21 6:15 PM

I visited a Bitcoin mine in a Mongolian ghost city, the perfect blueprint for the future of crypto

Joon Ian Wong

3.29.21 6:18 PM

Meet the New York founders disrupting a 4,000-year-old industry and taking on "Big Spice"

Nina Roberts

3.26.21 9:20 PM

People

Christie Smythe

Iterable, which allegedly fired CEO Justin Zhu for “microdosing” LSD, was chasing 580% YOY growth

Psychedelics have gotten trendy for founders looking for ways to boost focus and reduce stress, although they may not actually work.

An inside look at Future, the $150-per-month fitness app that promises to hold you accountable

Ivan De Luce

4.12.21 7:00 PM

These sex tech startup founders are mixing data with pleasure

Rebecca Aydin

4.15.21 2:00 PM

Silicon Valley didn’t support this Texas FinTech founder, but here's how he still raised $13 million

As told to Stav Dimitropoulos

4.12.21 4:30 PM

Exclusive Interview: How 24-year-old Alexandr Wang grew Scale AI into a $3.5 billion powerhouse

Ivan De Luce

3.31.21 4:00 PM

How this MIT graduate built a billion dollar hedge fund while dodging the FBI

Danny Konstantinovic

7.2.20 5:00 PM

Videos

Austin Rief: How Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75 million in 5 years

Morning Brew co-founder Austin Rief talks about his startup journey, who he wouldn't have sold the business to, and where the future of digital media is headed.

Danny Konstantinovic

3.18.21 12:00 PM

A talent agent explains how YouTube kids and family content mushroomed into a multi-million-dollar business

Julia Gray

5.4.21 6:30 PM

Exclusive: How YouTuber MeganPlays turned Roblox videos into a million-dollar business

Danny Konstantinovic

4.29.21 7:30 PM

Exclusive: How Seema Khinda Johnson of Nuggets plans to thwart hackers by breaking our password addiction

4.29.21 6:34 PM

BlackRock former CIO Tariq Fancy on greenwashing, "following passion alone," and other scams

Julia Gray

4.20.21 3:30 PM

Latest Articles

Epic's battle with Apple over #FreeFortnite is going to be ugly

The Epic v. Apple games trial got off to a chaotic start yesterday. But fans that were expecting a slugfest instead got a typical court proceeding.

Danny Konstantinovic

5.4.21 3:00 PM

After regaining consumer trust, Jessica Alba’s Honest Company is going public at a $1.5 billion valuation. Here’s everything you need to know.

The Honest Company’s revenue shot up 28% during the pandemic. Now, the company is betting that the improved performance will translate to a successful IPO.

Ivan De Luce

5.3.21 7:00 PM

How Glossier went from makeup blog to industry-changing DTC superstar

The brand sold an aesthetic that reshaped the beauty industry, but has its influence peaked?

Jael Goldfine

5.3.21 3:00 PM

You're running out of time to move to New York City

Rent in New York is about to go back up.

Danny Konstantinovic

5.3.21 1:00 PM

A federal judge is threatening XRP fans with criminal charges if they post SEC hearings to YouTube, Twitch

Thousands of crypto investors have been tuning into proceedings in the case against Ripple, maxing out conference lines.

Christie Smythe

4.30.21 6:10 PM

The enduring mystery of digital money and Dogecoin: Explained

Even in the cryptocurrency world, where a token could fall 50% in a day, Dogecoin remains an enduring mystery.

Joon Ian Wong

4.30.21 6:00 PM