Cross Border
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Vinyl visionary: How a digital dealmaker revived a 112-year-old record-player brand
Corey Lieblein resuscitated the Victrola brand and made a killing in, yes, record players
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Tricks of a crypto trader: How Shuoji Zhou built Asia's hottest crypto hedge fund
FBG Capital spotted promising crypto projects in Asia and turned $20 million into $200 million in a year
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How The Rock flexed his social media muscle to become Hollywood's top-paid actor
By turning himself into a marketing channel, Dwayne Johnson has figured out a way to make millions
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Ferrero: Shifting focus from its native brands
After inheriting his family's $13-billion candy empire in 2015, Giovanni Ferrero vowed to supersize it—at any cost. He devoured iconic brands like Red Hots, Butterfinger, BabyRuth and Nestlé Crunch, and he's not done yet. But will his gluttony lead to a meltdown?
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Farmers Business Network: Data farming
Can a Silicon Valley startup save America's small farms? It has raised nearly $200 million to find out—but Big Ag is fighting back
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Sila Nano and the black magic powder
The alchemists at Sila Nano have their eyes on $31 billion—and growing—lithium-ion battery market. They just might get a nice piece of it
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The Ozmens' galactic gamble
Eren Ozmen and her husband spent the last quarter of a century carefully building Sierra Nevada from a tiny, 20-person defence firm into a multibillion-dollar aerospace concern. Now she's betting their fortunes on the billionaire space race
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Kylie Jenner: Youngest richest self-made woman in America
Not even 21, she has built a $900 million cosmetics fortune with virtually no employees, capital or expertise. This new model of extreme fame leverage is radically reshaping business, culture and politics
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Red Emmerson: The last timber baron
From humble beginnings traipsing through California's vast forests with his dad, he has built a multibillion-dollar logging fortune by being cheaper and more aggressive than anyone else
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Kenny Park: Supplier to the stars
For decades, he has quietly made the pricey handbags that famous labels sell around the world. Today he's a billionaire
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Zak Mroueh: The sanest mad man
Zulu Alpha Kilo founder won't audition for work, defying the "absurdities" he says plague the ad industry