Cross Border
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Plaid: Fintech's happy plumbers
Plaid is approaching a billion-dollar valuation by building the pipes that connect your apps to your checking account. Will the big banks try to snuff it?
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Hopper: The vacation predictor
While many bank on AI paying off in the future, one of the world's hottest apps, Hopper, has raised $84 million by monetising it right now
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Bradley Jacobs: The maestro of mergers
Billionaire roll-up artist Bradley Jacobs has spent more than $7 billion assembling a sprawling logistics company. Now he's tuning it up to deliver big profits
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Slice: Pizza unchained
The success of Domino's, Papa John's and the rest of Big Pizza has devastated mom-and-pop pie shops. Now Slice is helping the little guys unite, get online - and fight back
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Vineyard Vines: Prep rally
Despite the fall of retail and the rise of casual wear, Vineyard Vines has quietly built a near-billion-dollar brand - without taking a cent of investment capital
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The LKK Group's 1000-year plan
The Lee family has been selling its Lee Kum Kee sauces for 130 years. Sammy Lee is now thinking about the next millennium
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How to beat Wall Street and Silicon Valley simultaneously
The American Dream is alive and well on Wall Street thanks to Robert Smith, the richest black person in America, who has figured out a way to re-engineer both private equity and enterprise software—and used this secret playbook to build a $4.4 billion fortune
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How Francis Holder baked a billion by cornering the Macaron market
Holder realised that American mechanical production and traditional French techniques were the right ingredients to build a bread-and-pastry empire
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From penniless immigrant to multibillionaire
Cable magnate Rocco Commisso has shown an uncanny knack for being at the right place at the right moment
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This Chinese city is the Mecca of hardware startups
For startups at a Shenzhen accelerator, a month's R&D takes only a week
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Inside Charley Shin's multinational food empire
Sandwich chain Charleys Philly Steaks has a presence in 19 countries