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This week in Business Twitter: Coinbase goes public, why Archegos imploded, and how to build a 7-figure newsletter

Brian Armstrong is now one of the world’s richest people, thanks to Coinbase’s public debut. Meanwhile, Bill Hwang of Archegos is out $20 billion after his firm’s spectacular implosion.

Ivan De Luce

4.16.21 7:00 PM in People

Four big reasons Massachusetts is trying to take away Robinhood’s license

Christie Smythe

4.16.21 6:58 PM

Exclusive interview: Initialized Capital's Alda Leu Dennis on why funding for women-led startups fell during the pandemic

Ivan De Luce

4.15.21 4:00 PM

Features

Allison Harvard explains how NFTs let her reclaim "Creepy Chan" from memelords

Joon Ian Wong

4.15.21 9:22 PM

Markets

Christie Smythe

A new era for crypto: What comes next after Coinbase’s direct listing

It might seem like digital currency has “made it,” but regulatory issues continue to dog the industry.

Feds busted a huge Netflix and HBO fraud scheme. Now they need to find $227 million.

Christie Smythe

4.9.21 9:25 PM

How crypto is trying to spend its way into becoming money

Joon Ian Wong

4.8.21 1:55 PM

Bitcoin’s rise is luring everyone from Goldman Sachs to Chipotle, but a crash might be coming

Christie Smythe

4.1.21 9:01 PM

The biggest cannabis companies to benefit from marijuana decriminalization

Ivan De Luce

3.31.21 4:00 PM

A smaller, still unprofitable WeWork is going public in a $9 billion SPAC deal

Danny Konstantinovic

3.26.21 9:45 PM

Tech

Christie Smythe

Clubhouse is in danger of fading. Can tipping save the voice-chat app?

Users seem to think the payment feature, launched with Stripe, could either open up new opportunities for creators or hasten the app’s decline.

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

Jael Goldfine

How Oatly went from foodie fad to $10 billion IPO

Just as scandals arise around Oatly’s formula thanks to its forthcoming IPO, the brand is sold out. Again.

Burger King and Suitsupply see surging social media engagement following risky ad campaigns

Julia Gray

3.9.21 7:00 PM

Live Nation's hiring spree confirms concerts are coming back

Jael Goldfine

4.1.21 4:00 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

NFTs explained: Coveted by Chamath, Vaynerchuk, Cuban, and regular people, too; but what the heck are they?

Joon Ian Wong

2.25.21 4:06 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

4.13.21 6:00 PM

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

Julia Gray

4.13.21 6:00 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

Ivan De Luce

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

Future founder and CEO Rishi Mandal spoke about tackling America’s obesity problem by pairing users with a remote personal trainer. I tried out the app and found that it's worth the high price tag.

Meet the food truck owner whose gyro sales can predict the stock market

Abdus Salaam Muwwakkil , Julia Gray

4.5.21 5:00 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

Exclusive interview: Initialized Capital's Alda Leu Dennis on why funding for women-led startups fell during the pandemic

Ivan De Luce

4.15.21 4:00 PM

Drop Delivery co-founder Vanessa Gabriel on breaking into cannabis and making $1 million in 7 weeks

Julia Gray

4.7.21 6:00 PM

Exclusive interview: Author Steve LeVine on why EV batteries are the new oil, and the U.S. needs to start drilling

Christie Smythe

4.7.21 2:23 PM

Exclusive Interview: VC Charlie O’Donnell on why 2021 will be a record-breaking year for New York startups

Ivan De Luce

4.6.21 4:00 PM

Latest Articles

Coinbase, now valued at $65 billion, is going public. Here’s what you need to know.

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

Ivan De Luce

4.14.21 3:00 PM

XRP is surging after early legal wins, but don't bet on a blowout for Ripple

Twitter has been buzzing with bullish (and maybe premature) predictions for the cryptocurrency.

Christie Smythe

4.12.21 8:21 PM

This week in Business Twitter: Scott Galloway goes shirtless, Elon Musk’s decision-making process, and Brian Armstrong makes a techno NFT

Elon Musk makes decisions the same way Jeff Bezos does. Meanwhile, Paul Graham describes how startups exist at the intersection of two forces.

Ivan De Luce

4.9.21 7:00 PM

Deliveroo's on a hiring spree despite having the worst IPO in U.K. history

Deliveroo has quickly become one of the hottest startups in the U.K., but investors are raising concerns with its business model.

Ivan De Luce , Julia Gray

4.6.21 2:08 PM

This week in Business Twitter: Elon Musk’s deleted tweets, Volkswagen’s April Fool’s flop, and Coinbase going public

Elon Musk was forced to delete some controversial tweets. Meanwhile, Volkswagen got into controversy of its own when it jumped the gun on its April Fool’s Day name change to “Voltswagen.”

Ivan De Luce

4.2.21 8:00 PM

A Bravo ‘Real Housewives’ star is accused of funding her lavish life through a vast telemarketing scam

Jen Shah of 'The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,' along with her assistant Stuart Smith, were arrested Tuesday.

Christie Smythe

3.31.21 1:37 PM