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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 in People

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

Christie Smythe

4.9.21 9:25 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

Tech

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

Christie Smythe

4.8.21 10:32 PM

Markets

Danny Konstantinovic

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

On the verge of WeWork's public market debut, data from 2019 shows its dramatic downfall.

This map shows Beyond Meat's expanding global reach, thanks to its new partnership with McDonald's

Jael Goldfine

3.3.21 3:30 PM

More people work at Nexstar than watch some of its NewsNation TV shows

Andrew Hirschfeld

3.29.21 6:00 PM

Instacart App Store ratings skyrocket nearly 200% as the company looks to go public

Julia Gray

3.18.21 4:00 PM

Who will be scrambling for their shorts when the SPAC high tide rolls out?

Christie Smythe

3.16.21 1:37 PM

Costco is adding jobs and raising its minimum wage during the pandemic

Julia Gray

2.25.21 6:00 PM

Tech

Julia Gray

The bossware boom is upon us: a look inside the employee monitoring software market

Companies are clamoring to monitor their employees' productivity. Here are the services winning market share — and what's at risk.

A look inside Perfect Corp.'s YouCam Makeup app and the rise of beauty AR

Julia Gray

3.8.21 5:00 PM

Greensill Capital's fall is setting the table for fintechs to feast

Christie Smythe

3.19.21 11:59 AM

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

Twitter comes for creator payment platforms like Patreon with new Super Follows feature

Julia Gray

2.25.21 8:00 PM

Spotify is entering the creator economy and cementing its podcast dominance

Julia Gray

2.23.21 7:00 PM

Innovation

Julia Gray , Jael Goldfine

How hard seltzer became the alcohol industry’s party trick

Calories, carbonation, and consumer-driven marketing — the hard seltzer market is exploding (again) and brands like White Claw, Truly, and Bud Light Seltzer are poised to meet every last drop of demand.

Live Nation's hiring spree confirms concerts are coming back

Jael Goldfine

4.1.21 4:00 PM

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

Lucy Dean Stockton

3.25.21 8:00 PM

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

Julia Gray

3.9.21 7:00 PM

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

Jael Goldfine

3.1.21 5:15 PM

Here's why Shopify's weekly user count soared 184% over the last year

Julia Gray

2.4.21 2:30 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

4.5.21 6:00 PM

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

Julia Gray

4.5.21 6:00 PM

The creator of r/wallstreetbets wrote a book — here's how it predicted last week's market chaos

Henry Englert

2.3.21 4:03 PM

On Fanhouse, users pay for selfies, sh*tposts, and a sense of intimacy

Julia Gray

1.8.21 8:30 PM

People

Danny Konstantinovic

Alex Cohen thinks tech Twitter is boring

Alex Cohen is tech Twitter's biggest contrarian, challenging the normal discourse and posting his unfiltered self.

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

Abdus Salaam Muwwakkil , Julia Gray

4.5.21 5:00 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

This founder is building a $3.8 billion urban air taxi network

Ivan De Luce

3.25.21 6:00 PM

Vice Ventures wants good companies in "bad" industries

Julia Gray

1.6.21 8:00 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

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

Exclusive interview: Why Sahil Lavingia is betting his company on the rise of the creator economy

Danny Konstantinovic

4.2.21 2:00 PM

Latest Articles

How crypto is trying to spend its way into becoming money

Right now, cryptocurrencies aren't true cash replacements, but recent experiments and live tests show they have the potential to at least coexist with the current financial system.

Joon Ian Wong

4.8.21 1:55 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

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

Lithium-ion batteries pose obstacles for growing the EV market, but these startups are trying to help clear the road.

Christie Smythe

4.5.21 10:03 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

Coinbase, now valued at $104 billion, is about to go 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

4.2.21 3:00 PM

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

Kraken’s CEO predicted a Bitcoin will be worth a Bugatti by 2023 while some analysts say the crypto market will lose steam.

Christie Smythe

4.1.21 9:01 PM