Global Game
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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.
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"Poor as hell" to billionaire: The rise and rise of Tyler Perry
How Tyler Perry built an entertainment empire and changed show business forever
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How two young scientists built a $250 million business—out of waste
Houston-based Solugen is making cheaper, more effective industrial chemicals to help scrub everything from pools and hot tubs to oil and gas companies' wastewater. Up next: fertilizers
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Forbes Best Under a Billion: Full list
The annual Best Under A Billion list spotlights 200 publicly listed small and mid-sized companies in the Asia-Pacific region with sales under $1 billion
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Meet Wang Ning, the master of mystery
Wang Ning is readying his fast-growing, Beijing-based company Pop Mart for an IPO—and an expansion beyond China
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Is Ivanka Trump Going to Change Anyone's Mind?
Four years ago, the would-be first daughter was seen by some to have the power to persuade moderate women voters and to rein in her own father's impulses. A lot is different now