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Donald Trump is now richer than George Soros — and on track to overtake Mark Cuban
Donald Trump's net worth has jumped to more than $7 billion, per Bloomberg, thanks to his large sta…
Theron Mohamed
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Sergey Brin once hosted a bizarre baby shower where big-name guests wore oversized diapers and onesies, book says
Kara Swisher's new book recalls the 2008 event hosted by the Google cofounder in San Francisco that…
Beatrice Nolan
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A billionaire who backed Jeff Bezos and Larry Page said not investing in 'slightly crazy' Elon Musk was 'probably the worst investment decision of all time'
"The conventional wisdom was that venture capitalists thought not to invest in electric vehicle com…
Grace Kay
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A company that counts billionaires Marc Andreessen and Laurene Powell Jobs as investors says it's bought 50,000 acres of land to build a new 'walkable' city in northern California. Here's everything we know about the plans.
The company that quietly splashed out $800 million on 50,000 acres of land to build a new city near…
Grace Dean
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Meet Reed Jobs, the Apple cofounder's son who just launched a VC fund to invest in cancer treatments
The 31-year-old started Yosemite, a VC fund focused on investing in cancer treatments years after h…
Aaron Mok
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The latest chapter of Silicon Valley icon Kleiner Perkins' fall from grace is a tale of succession and leadership struggles
Marinova recounts how a combination of unclear leadership and poor investment decisions led the onc…
Megan Hernbroth
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The Kleiner Mafia: Meet the Silicon Valley investors who did their tours of duty at the once untouchable VC firm
One of the critical flaws, Marinova reports, was the firm's lack of a succession plan during a time…
Megan Hernbroth
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A new book provides the antidote for the creeping feeling that the business world is hopelessly out of ideas and awash in get-rich-quick schemes
"Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs" reminds you wh…
Jonathan A. Knee
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Google's Larry Page 'floored' an early investor when he predicted it could be twice as big as Yahoo before it even had a business model
"I was floored," Doerr said in the book. Page and Brin had come to his office earlier that year to …
Prachi Bhardwaj
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The first people in the US got COVID-19 shots
These are Business Insider's biggest healthcare stories for December 15.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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How the crown prince of Saudi Arabia made his way into Silicon Valley circles with a $3.5 billion investment in Uber
In 2016, then 30-year-old Mohammed Bin Salman made a move that would soon have him brushing elbows …
Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
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The startup that wanted to kill the post office is shutting down after raising $62 million
Eventually, Shyp suspended all operations outside of San Francisco - the company's largest and most…
Rachel Sandler
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Google sets goals differently under Sundar Pichai than it did under Larry Page, and it reflects a difference in managerial tactics
In Google's early days, these goals were set quarterly, according to John Doerr's book, "Measure Wh…
Prachi Bhardwaj
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This 29-year-old CEO is the youngest member of the US space council. Here's how he raised $45 million in three years to 3D print rockets.
Ellis notably secured seed funding from billionaire investor Mark Cuban, at age 26, but also manage…
Callum Burroughs,Callum Burro…
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Intuit CIO says his global IT team uses four popular communication platforms to increase productivity
Tysen had been working at Intuit for 11 years before becoming the CIO in 2013 in the midst of multi…
Prachi Bhardwaj
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The first big clue about how Amazon plans to upend the US healthcare system with PillPack just dropped
"The inescapable conclusion is that Amazon-PillPack and CVS Caremark directly compete with comparab…
Emma Court
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Valley investors: Kleiner Perkins has a bigger problem than Ellen Pao
Mike Abbott, the 42-year old partner who joined the firm three years ago, told Reuters that the com…
Eugene Kim
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When Kleiner Perkins first offered Ellen Pao a job, she turned it down
By the time of her offer, Pao had already graduated from Princeton, as well as Harvard Law School a…
Sam Colt
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This legend of venture capital just explained how to become a VC
Doerr - who has led investments in companies like Netscape, Google, Amazon, and Twitter - is one of…
Sam Colt
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Ellen Pao complained she had gotten a 'demotion' when Kleiner Perkins downsized in 2012
"Unfortunately, it does not seem to be a coincidence that Trae and I - the two people who have made…