Global Game
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The $6 billion bet: How Josh Harris, other PE owners are buying up NFL teams
On Wall Street, risk-free investments are the holy grail, so no price is too high to pay for an NFL team. A new wave of private equity owners like the Washington Commanders' new owner Josh Harris are entering the game with mountains of cash—and nothing to lose
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Medical database billionaire Terry Ragon wants to build a Manhattan Project for HIV
Ragon believes he can succeed where major governments have failed: By bringing together top doctors, scientists and engineers in a moon-shot bid to cure one of the world's wiliest viruses
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US-based Promise is changing the debt collection business with compassion
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins built Promise into a $520 million powerhouse by helping municipalities collect unpaid bills with text messages and zero-interest plans
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Truth Social has already added $400 million to Donald Trump's net worth
Banned from social media, the former US President revealed he was creating his own platform in October. Truth Social has already been downloaded, glitches and all, more than a million times, and has boosted Trump's wealth by hundreds of millions
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Last two years were horrific for the movie theatre business—unless you're Mitch Roberts
While most movie theatres remained shut during the pandemic, the 27-year-old entrepreneur doubled down on his vision: transforming a mundane trip to the movies into a memorable event with bowling, arcade games, laser tag, food and booze
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How Cummins, a century old maker of dirty diesels, is now leading the hydrogen charge
A Tesla is fine for the morning commute, but to power the huge trains, trucks and ships that move the global economy, hydrogen is the ticket
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How Nima Ghamsari's Blend Labs prevented the US mortgage market meltdown
The former semipro poker player bet big that fintech wasn't just for startups. He has built Blend Labs into a $3 billion business by weaning the nation's biggest lenders off their steady diet of reams of dead trees—and he's about to go public
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The Croesus of Crypto: How Sam Bankman-Fried built a $22.5 billion fortune without really believing in cryptocurrency
The FTX co-founder built his fortune before his 30th birthday by profiting from the cryptocurrency frenzy. Now, he just wants his wealth to survive long enough to give it all away
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Covid-19's entrepreneur explosion: Why America will never go back to business as usual
High unemployment, the magnifying power of the web and fresh fintech financing are fuelling an eruption of startups not seen in decades
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How Veritas Capital's Ramzi Musallam turned tragedy into the American dream
After the shock suicide of founder Robert McKeon, (now) billionaire Musallam convinced investors to take a bet on him, then the second-highest ranking executive in Veritas. Today, its assets have grown from a humble $2 billion to a whopping $36 billion
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He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire with a $28 billion startup
Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code—and he wanted to give it away for free. But few would take it unless he charged for it. Now his startup is worth $28 billion, and the career academic is a billionaire with a reputation as one of the best CEOs in the Valley