Global Game
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Dawn of the Neobanks
Pretty much anyone with half a million bucks and a high-speed connection can start a bank these days. Dozens of digital banks are already open for business—and VCs are betting billions that they'll replace your corner branch
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Jobcase: LinkedIn for the Working Class
How Jobcase is building a $1 billion social networking site for warehouse employees and waitresses
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Marriott's Arne Sorenson still thinks his company isn't big enough
With his acquisition of Starwood three years ago, Arne Sorenson created the world's largest hotel empire. Globally, 20 percent of new hotel rooms being built are now Marriott properties. But Sorenson wants more
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Meet Asha Mehta, the smart quant with a China strategy
No matter how much Trump bellows, the Sino-American trade war will eventually pass, and Asha Mehta and the smart quants at Acadian Asset Management will cash in on China
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Billionaire oilman Phil Anschutz gears for the green
Anschutz is gearing up for one last act, moving from fossil fuels to—gasp!—renewable energy. But he's in it for a different shade of green. Will Anschutz's $8 billion wind farm be his ultimate windfall?
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Hollywood mogul Barry Diller begins again
Most tech billionaires are precocious revolutionaries. Then there's Barry Diller. The former Hollywood mogul has ground his way to a $4.2 billion technology fortune, one unsexy spinoff at a time—and at 77, he is about to start afresh
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Shari Redstone and the real-life life 'Succession' drama
Shari Redstone faced a vicious uphill battle for her father's company—including, at times, with Sumner Redstone himself. Finally victorious in uniting Viacom and CBS under her, she tells her side of the story for the first time
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Business intelligence for dummies
Sorry, PhDs. Dean Stoecker's analytics software, Alteryx, can turn almost anyone into a data scientist. And it's turned him into a billionaire
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Inside story: The fall of Overstock's mad king, Patrick Byrne
The founder and longtime CEO of former e-tailing giant Overstock.com, recently resigned, saying his involvement as a federal informant in the investigation of accused Russian spy Maria Butina made performing his duties impossible. That's not the whole story. This is
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Wall Street's Best Dealmaker: Orlando Bravo
Orlando Bravo peaked as a competitive tennis player as a junior in the 1980s, but he is the undisputed world champion in a far more lucrative game: Private equity
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America's richest: Those who dropped off the Forbes 400 list in 2019
The entry point remains at $2.1 billion this year, but 22 billionaires dropped off the ranks, 29 percent more than 2018—and an additional five are now deceased