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Talent manager Keith Dorsey on his journey to create one of the first all-Black content houses

Keith Dorsey has made a splash managing influencers, but Collab Crib, one of the first major all-Black content houses, is the project he’s proudest of.

Ivan De Luce

8.3.21 4:00 PM in Video

The traditional startup-to-VC-route is out. Solopreneurship is in

7.30.21 6:33 PM

It looks like Hindenburg Research was right about Nikola's "intricate fraud"

Christie Smythe

7.30.21 1:53 PM

Innovation

How a startup founder is helping utilities boost profits by turning them into crypto miners

Christie Smythe

8.2.21 12:37 PM

Markets

Ivan De Luce

Robinhood’s $35 billion IPO could add over $2 billion to Vlad Tenev’s net worth

Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt founded Robinhood to “democratize finance for all.” Here’s a look back at their journey, fall from grace, and IPO.

Duolingo’s $3.6 billion IPO could net co-founders nearly $375 million each

Ivan De Luce

7.27.21 4:46 PM

170-year-old Dole is going public in an IPO — again. This time it could be worth $1.7 billion

Ivan De Luce

7.28.21 7:41 PM

JetBlue hiring shows its recovery is outpaced by competitors

Danny Konstantinovic

7.27.21 9:25 PM

AwesomeCalls makes $420,000 a year selling advice to day traders. California says that’s illegal

Christie Smythe

7.27.21 1:56 PM

UPDATE: A single Amazon job listing helped push Bitcoin back above $35,000

Danny Konstantinovic

7.26.21 6:30 PM

Videos

This Harvard professor wrote a book on why startups fail — here’s his advice for entrepreneurs

Tom Eisenmann spoke about his latest book, “Why Startups Fail,” the case studies that fascinated him most, and what founders can learn in the face of failure.

Ivan De Luce

7.21.21 12:00 PM

Exclusive Interview: Polina Marinova left Fortune to start The Profile last March. Now it brings in six figures.

Christie Smythe

7.20.21 4:03 PM

Exclusive Interview: How Footnoted's Michelle Leder got the goods on Robinhood

Christie Smythe

7.7.21 4:29 PM

Exclusive interview: Gibson Biddle shaped Netflix products that reach millions—here's what he says CEOs need to look for in their next product leader

Ivan De Luce

7.1.21 6:00 PM

Exclusive Interview: How Cody Ko went from software engineer to YouTube comedy millionaire

Danny Konstantinovic

6.29.21 6:30 PM

Tech

Ivan De Luce

A 110% jump in hiring shows that Apple may be working on its long-rumored self-driving car

Job listings for Apple’s Special Projects Group have jumped 110% in the past year, which could mean that an Apple Car is in the works, though Apple has not confirmed this.

Crowdtangle data was a window into how Facebook works — and now it's closing

Danny Konstantinovic

7.15.21 9:30 PM

Peloton is making a push to enter hotels

Danny Konstantinovic

7.12.21 12:30 PM

Amazon is recruiting a public policy army to battle the government, with job listings up 92%

Ivan De Luce

7.7.21 2:00 PM

No-code startup hiring is up as much as 227%

Danny Konstantinovic

7.6.21 1:15 PM

Why the Wu-Tang album is NOT like an NFT, from a person who has heard some of it

Christie Smythe

3.30.21 1:41 PM

Innovation

Joon Ian Wong

What a Los Angeles water basin can tell us about the future of crypto

Neat solutions for blockchain technology often crack under the pressure of human wants and needs.

With Parler fading, Trump staffer unleashes GETTR as a new cancel culture antidote

Christie Smythe

7.1.21 9:54 PM

What Elon Musk gets wrong about bitcoin

Joon Ian Wong

6.25.21 10:00 AM

Concerts are back: Live Nation hiring has gone up by 538% over the last quarter

Ivan De Luce

6.23.21 8:00 PM

How Etsy went from quirky crafts website to glossy e-commerce powerhouse

Jael Goldfine

6.18.21 3:38 PM

Experts like Robert Schiller are arguing whether NFTs are a bubble, a fad, an epidemic — or here to stay

Joon Ian Wong

6.18.21 1:55 PM

Features

"Stablecoins, not crypto" is the new "blockchain, not bitcoin"

The striking thing about the latest efforts to ditch cryptocoins in favor of “blockchain technology” is the increasing recognition that cryptocurrencies are here to stay.

Crypto nation: One month into El Salvador's bitcoin experiment, confusion reigns

Jonathan Laguán

7.9.21 4:04 PM

Welcome to Bored Ape Yacht Club: The new NFT community where $60 million has already traded hands

Joon Ian Wong

7.2.21 2:09 PM

Inside the rise of BitClout — a crypto-based social network where you can bet on influencers

Jael Goldfine

7.1.21 6:26 PM

Nashville is popular, but Idaho is booming: See where the "Untethered Class" of remote workers make their homes

Jon Leckie

6.25.21 12:45 PM

People

Christie Smythe

It looks like Hindenburg Research was right about Nikola's "intricate fraud"

The electric truck maker’s former executive chairman was charged in a federal indictment with defrauding investors.

Everything we know about the business titan accused of spying on the White House for the UAE

Christie Smythe

7.22.21 12:33 PM

Branson's space flight made a bigger splash than Bezos'

Danny Konstantinovic

7.20.21 4:35 PM

Richard Branson is a marketing genius — and his spaceflight won the Internet

Christie Smythe

7.12.21 5:00 PM

I'm a pilot and engineer building a startup network of cargo-delivering drones

As told to Stav Dimitropoulos

7.6.21 6:38 PM

Hindenburg Research CEO Nathan Anderson skewers SPACs — and welcomes r/WallStreetBets' scorn

Christie Smythe

6.30.21 6:53 PM

Latest Articles

This week in Business Twitter: Steak-umm’s social commentary, the VC firm you’ve never heard of, and why taxis might be cheaper than Ubers

Greenoaks Capital is publicity-shy, but the investment firm has had a successful year. Meanwhile, high rideshare prices could make taxis cheaper than Uber or Lyft rides.

Ivan De Luce

7.30.21 3:22 PM

Why Mark Zuckerberg is turning Facebook into a "metaverse company" and what could derail him

The key stumbling block for Facebook is openness and interoperability.

Joon Ian Wong

7.30.21 2:33 PM

This week in Business Twitter: Bezos in space, VCs with FOMO, and a guide to crypto for beginners

This week, the billionaire space race led to some heavy criticism of Jeff Bezos. Meanwhile, investor Frank Rotman’s unpopular opinion on VCs being fueled by FOMO had some supporters.

Ivan De Luce

7.23.21 2:11 PM

Tesla will let other cars use its Superchargers, Musk says

Tesla is making all its U.S. Superchargers available to other electric vehicles while competitors play catchup.

Danny Konstantinovic

7.22.21 2:00 PM

Rent the Runway’s latest comeback move: an upcoming IPO

The fashion rental service is back after shuttering stores and laying off employees in 2020. Now, it’s repositioning itself ahead of an IPO.

Ivan De Luce

7.21.21 7:11 PM

Netflix firings show what happens on Slack doesn’t stay on Slack

A legal expert says employees shouldn’t expect privacy on the platform. “It’s just the same as email.”

Christie Smythe

7.19.21 6:21 PM