Cross Border
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From beer to pharmaceuticals: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the brewmaster
Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building an international biosimilar drugs powerhouse and has become one of the world's most successful—and richest—female entrepreneurs
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Razorpay's early-mover advantage paid off. Can it defend its lead against competitors?
Razorpay co-founder Harshil Mathur identified an early niche in India's online payments market, enabling small businesses to grow. Now competitors are hot on his heels
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How Rebellions' Sunghyun Park is readying to crack the global AI chips market
Capturing even a sliver of the worldwide market would be a game-changer. As companies race to adopt generative AI tools trained on vast amounts of data, demand for AI chips has exploded in the past two years
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China plus one: How WHA Group is building a manufacturing hub in Thailand
Co-founder and CEO Jareeporn Jarukornsakul built industrial parks developer WHA from the ground up. Now she's facing the challenge of trade turbulence head-on
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Maky Zangenah: Taking cancer drug maker Summit Therapeutics to staggering heights
Alongside her husband, Bob Duggan, Maky Zanganeh has guided cancer drug developer Summit Therapeutics to reach staggering new heights and has become a billionaire along the way. But this latest ascent is only the most recent apex of an extraordinary career
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Working AI: May Habib's Writer sells a new way of doing things
Businesses have poured millions into AI hoping for big returns in the future. This startup is saving them millions in labour costs today
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Meet Justin Sun, the crypto OG industry ideologues love to hate
Justin Sun loves a publicity stunt. But in bailing out Donald Trump's crypto venture—netting the President and his family $400 million—Sun has boosted his efforts to create a global payment system using his Tron platform, with 300 million users and counting
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Nikola's hydrogen-powered rigs: The Bentley of trucks
Struggling US truck maker Nikola's hydrogen-powered rigs are now winning over drivers. Now to tackle how to fuel them
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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