Cross Border
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Hasbro: Manufacturing stories, not just toys
Brian Goldner's Hasbro now manufactures stories, not just Monopoly boards and GI Joes. That's why it's trouncing the competition—and just spent $4 billion on a pig named Peppa
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Hot stuff: Lawrence Kurzius spices up McCormick
Two years ago, McCormick spent more than $4 billion to buy a bunch of stalled supermarket staples. At the time, investors hated the deal. Boy, were they wrong
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Can cars use hydrogen as zero-pollution fuel?
Hydrogen vehicles keep flopping, but entrepreneur Trevor Milton thinks he can finally make them pay
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The world's first bot billionaire
Daniel Dines created the world's hottest tech company, $7 billion UiPath, by unleashing virtual robots on office grunt work
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Meet the world's first venture-backed human-hair-extension company
The dream? To be the Airbnb of salons
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Eddie Brown: One of Wall Street's greatest untold stories
Eddie Brown grew up as a labourer in the Jim Crow South. What he's accomplished since has left quite a legacy
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Star Citizen: The most expensive video game ever made
Chris Roberts has spent seven years and raised nearly $300 million—most of it from average gamers—building Star Citizen. It's on pace to be the costliest video game ever made and—outside of cryptocurrency—the world's largest crowdfunded project. It's still not ready. It may never be
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Why this former JP Morgan exec is chasing old money
While the braying pack of fintech startups chase millennial money, Rhian Horgan has her eyes on her parents' cash
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David Stickler: The 'Steve Jobs of steel'
After his partner dropped dead in his hotel room, globe-trotting financier David Stickler found himself at the helm of a steel mill startup in rural Arkansas. Now he runs the best little high-tech, highly leveraged steelmaker in the nation
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The unlikeliest power couple
Overcoming a slew of life's liabilities, Mark and Robyn Jones built a $1.8 billion insurance empire on territory dominated by mom-and-pop shops
