Cross Border
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World war Uber
The ride-hailing app steamrolled America, but the easy-win days are over. Its path to global conquest now has to go through well-financed and battle-hardened rivals that have seen Uber coming—and know how to beat it
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The man Vs The machines
A bestseller about predatory high-speed trading made Brad Katsuyama a folk hero. His new platform, IEX, is poised to make him millions
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Nathan Eagle: Megabyte mogul
Millions of smartphone owners in poor countries can't afford to get online, so Nathan Eagle gives them data for free. Not everyone agrees with his methods
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Dropbox under siege
As rivals are firebombing it and its $10 billion valuation seems overly rich, behind the scenes co-founder Arash Ferdowsi works to keep the file-synching upstart humming
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Glamsquad: Beauty on demand
Glamsquad is the latest startup to apply the Uber model to a traditional industry. With a dozen beauty copycats jumping in, a shakeout is coming
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Crocs: It's gotta be the shoes
Like all fads, Crocs soared—and crashed—based on hype. A new CEO is focusing on (gasp!) the product
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Vivek Ramaswamy: Boy in the bubble
As the biotech market boils over, prodigy Vivek Ramaswamy is engineering a flurry of deals that rescue drugs forgotten by the big firms. It might make him a billionaire at 30
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Beautiful ideas of the world’s most innovative firms
Great ideas can arrive in a moment of inspiration, plucked out of the ether fully formed. More often, though, the muses don’t pick up the phone. Innovation is mess and toil, and often found outside your four walls. “No matter who you are,” said tech pioneer Bill Joy, “most of the smartest people work for someone else.” The world’s most innovative firms, whose ideas are featured here, will always admit brilliance is harder than it looks
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Confluent's whiz kids: Rulers of the stream
Three data whizzes from inside LinkedIn have spun out into one of the hottest little companies in tech
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Tesla's secret formula
Elon Musk has inherited Steve Jobs's mantle as the cult favourite CEO. And his electric car company has grabbed Apple's creative crown. An inside look at the world's most innovative company