Cross Border
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Why is it difficult for foreign-born entrepreneurs to start businesses in today's America?
From Google to Tesla, immigrants have built some of America's biggest and most valuable companies. But it is now getting tougher, and may even become impossible for the next-generation of immigrant entrepreneurs to carve their niche
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Reversing the flow
Michael S Smith bet big—and wrong—that the US would need to import liquefied natural gas. Now he's poised to mint money from his $14 billion LNG export terminal
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Bootstrapping your way to a billion-dollar valuation
Most tech unicorns are the product of Silicon Valley's well-oiled VC machine. Not Cloudinary. The maker of marketing software was profitable from day one
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Sesame Street smart: Building a multibillion-dollar solar energy empire
Dean Solon built a multibillion-dollar fortune in solar energy by manufacturing gear that can be made cheaply in China. His secret: Higher prices for higher quality
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Being an old-school fundamentals guy in the era of Amazon, Tesla, GameStop and Bitcoin
Growth, momentum and investor psychology are the most important drivers of success on Wall Street today. But at 85, street legend Carl Icahn is one of the last remaining OG corporate raiders who still like asset- and cash-rich companies in need of a shake-up
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From a dusty web relic to showstopper: How Anjali Sud transformed Vimeo
Vimeo wasted its youth striving to be an oddball combo of Netflix and a commercial-free YouTube. After a hard refocus on business users, CEO Anjali Sud has transformed the near-forgotten brand into a $6 billion blockbuster
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The world's top 100 venture capitalists
A new era of tech giants such as Coinbase, Kuaishou and Stripe means a changing of the guard among the world's leading VCs. A look at the highlights of the 20th year of Forbes' Midas list
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Donald Trump's bad bet
The former president refused to divest his assets when he took office in 2017. It cost him some $1.6 billion
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Building a cannabis company without betting on getting customers high
Billionaire Beau Wrigley is building his cannabis company, Parallel, to be bigger than his family's chewing gum business
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Corporate cryptomania: Bitcoin catches the C-suite gaze
Up 300 percent in 2020, bitcoin is suddenly getting respect in the C-suite. Here's how PayPal, Square and the 48 other big companies on Forbes's third annual Blockchain 50 are outpacing their competition using bitcoin and the underlying blockchain
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How David Velez built no-fee Nubank in Brazil into the most valuable digital bank in the world
David Vélez set out to kill off the fat fees and lousy service of Brazil's big banks. The operation succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: Today, his no-fee Nubank is the most valuable digital bank in the world, with 35 million customers—and he's gunning for more