Global Game
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Child of the pledge
Ted Stanley made a fortune on knickknacks, then promised it to medical research on mental illness. His son is bird-dogging that commitment. And, yes, it's personal
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TrueMotion's mobile app can tell if you are texting while driving
Brad Cordova had deeply personal reasons to start a company to combat distracted driving and tap into the new market for data-driven insurance
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Starting over
Successful but speeding toward obsolescence, FreshBooks desperately needed to reinvent its online accounting service. It was almost as if it had to start an entirely new company
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Can Craigslist be killed?
Two well-funded startups are battling to build a smartphone-based alternative to Craigslist, the 22-year-old online dinosaur that's been a cash machine for founder and newly minted billionaire Craig Newmark
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The toll collector
While Wall Street wasn't looking, accountant Bruce Flatt became a billionaire by assembling one of the world's largest portfolios of office buildings, power plants and infrastructure projects—and making Brookfield Asset Management the safest growth stock on the planet
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Father (and son) knows best
Modern portfolio theory is the foundation of global money management, but a pair of mathematicians in Boston has revamped it—with market-beating success
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Tara Singh and Sahil Vachani: Building on Bhai Analjit Singh's legacy
In Indian senior living and other fields, Analjit Singh's youngest and her husband try an encore
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Brian Singerman of Founders Fund: A power player
The VC firm Founders Fund is known for a contrarian approach embodied in its polarising founding partner Peter Thiel. Now Brian Singerman, a games buff from outside the fund's PayPal mafia origins, is taking it to new heights—as long as Thiel's controversial politics does not get in the way
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Joshua Kushner: The other brother
Will Joshua Kushner's multibillion-dollar business survive his President-in-law?
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Prince Andrew: Tech's royal kingmaker
Startups are getting access to one of the world's most powerful address books, thanks to Prince Andrew, Duke of York
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Generics billionaire Satish Mehta is in the eye of a storm over overpriced drugs
From Valeant to Martin Shkreli, populists have raged at exorbitant prices in the pharmaceutical industry. Now, amid a collusion scandal, there may finally be a major fall guy: Generics billionaire Satish Mehta