Cross Border
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Your flying car is finally here
With nearly a billion dollars in funding, Joby Aviation promises to have its air taxis aloft by 2023
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Tory Burch's survival sketchbook
Amid a luxury fashion apocalypse, one of the century's greatest entrepreneurial retailers—and one of America's richest self-made women—brought us deep inside the battle to save her brand
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Heroes of Philanthropy: Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Pramod Bhasin on Forbes list
Some of the biggest donors this year were tied to the Covid-19 pandemic, while others remained dedicated to causes such as the arts and education
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Customised shampoo: The new luxury
Why Brooklyn-based Prose is betting millions that Americans will fork over $25 for customised shampoo. Then rinse and repeat
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Cleaning up the seafood business, for double-digit returns
Amy Novogratz fought back from a brain tumor that could have killed her to build the world's largest sustainable aquaculture investment fund
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The Barons of casino capitalism
By hooking disillusioned millennials on its zero-commission, gamified trading app, Robinhood has forever changed the retail brokerage business. "Democratising finance" is the stated goal, but its founders have become billionaires by leading a new generation of rubes right into the jaws of Wall Street's most notorious sharks
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Biotech's Barnum and his Covid cures
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong's radical cancer treatments made him one of the wealthiest physicians on earth. Now the master of medical marketing believes his drug therapies could defeat the "crisis of our time"—and there are plenty of reasons to think he'll deliver more Hippocrates than hype
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Reed Hastings rewrites the Hollywood script
Netflix had already upended Hollywood when the pandemic hit. But by making use of a highly unusual management style, its billionaire founder has positioned his juggernaut to prosper like few companies in the world right now
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Cloud 100: Forbes list of world's top private cloud companies
For the fifth straight year, Forbes, along with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, provides the definitive ranking of the world's top private cloud companies
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The Anti-Facebook: Facebook co-founder's slow-burn startup finally has its moment
Amid a herd of grow-at-all-cost unicorns, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's second act is a carefully constructed tortoise. As the global workplace has suddenly gone virtual, Asana, the team-management software he has spent 12 years cultivating, is poised to win the race
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Forbes 400 richest Americans: Pandemic be damned
America's 400 richest people are worth a record $3.2 trillion, up by $240 billion from a year ago. Even in these trying times, mega-fortunes are still being minted.