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These Are The Three Startups That Benefited From Stanford Ignite Program
There have been a lot of success stories from this program but some of them have been noteworthy.
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An eerie orange sky has blanketed San Francisco and residents are comparing it to 'Blade Runner' and post-apocalyptic films
San Francisco residents took to social media to share the sky, comparing it to the film "Blade Runn…
Mary Meisenzahl
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Graduates from Oxford and Harvard talk about why they attended Stanford's new startup crash course in London
Sherman: The people were hands down the best part of Stanford Ignite. We had a 30-person class for …
Sam Shead
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Adaptive-learning tech shows promise in helping students and teachers achieve classroom equity
Adaptive-learning technologies are benefiting teachers and students by using data to personalize le…
Pooja Shah
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Silicon Valley's political divide is now public — and petty
Silicon Valley leaders, like David Sacks and Reid Hoffman, are engaging in public political dispute…
Alice Tecotzky
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Tensions are boiling over as America's elite colleges respond to Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel
Backlash is brewing against a campus culture that some people say is taking open dialogue too far a…
Madeline Berg
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Ozempic and other new weight-loss drugs could save lives. Too bad millions of Americans are being denied access to them.
America's screwed-up healthcare system is preventing millions from receiving a new "life-saving" we…
Shelby Livingston
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'We do have two systems of justice in America:' Kamala Harris slams Trump administration's denials of systemic racism
The Democratic nominee for vice president told CNN that President Trump and Attorney General Willia…
Tim Levin
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2 fires burning in California are now the state's 2nd and 3rd biggest ever — here's the ranking
California firefighters are battling the state's 2nd and 3rd largest blazes ever. This chart ranks …
Susie Neilson
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California's fires are so intense, some make their own thunderstorms. NASA calls the formations the 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds.'
The pyrocumulonimbus cloud can generate smoky rain, lightning, and in some cases, tornadoes (someti…
Susie Neilson
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Face-size chunks of ash fell from the sky in California wine country, where the Glass Complex Fire has forced 70,000 to evacuate
The Glass Complex Fire in Northern California has spread over 56,000 acres. In 2017, an even larger…
Susie Neilson
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Meet California's new normal: more lightning, 30% less rain in wildfire season, and double the number of fire-risk days
California has seen nearly all its largest wildfires ever in the last 20 years because of climate c…
Susie Neilson
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How a startup behind the 'iPhone of vaporizers' reinvented the e-cigarette and generated $224 million in sales in a year
While most e-cigarettes use a type of nicotine called "free-base," which passes quickly into the bl…
Melia Robinson
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How an LA upstart is redefining the media world by helping African-American millennials 'tell their own story'
Blavity has been a hot topic in the media world since it closed a $6.5 million Series A round with …
Bryan Logan
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Casper, the buzzy mattress seller adored by millennials, has a costly returns problem that could be a nightmare for its IPO
It remains to be seen how public investors will treat the company. Other money-losing startups saw …
Troy Wolverton
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Here's why business experts think $1 billion Casper's planned IPO could be a bust
A year ago, SoftBank valued WeWork at $47 billion, and in its IPO documents, the company tried to p…
Troy Wolverton
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Mary Barra was called a 'lightweight' when she became CEO of GM - here's how she transformed the company and silenced her doubters
Under her watch, GM has started a ride-sharing service (Maven), bought a self-driving startup (Crui…
Mark Matousek
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CULTIVATED: A boutique cannabis bank founded by Goldman and JPMorgan alums is chasing deals, CannTrust is exploring a sale
The short-sellers claim that Hexo was promoting products on Snapchat - a social media platform used…
Jeremy Berke
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We asked a 17-year Walmart transportation exec everything about the Fortune 1's massive supply chain network - from increasing sustainability to its trucking fleet that's more exclusive than Harvard. Here's the full conversation.
Braunbach: Well, we've increased the number of drivers in our private fleet. As we saw a lot of ins…
Rachel Premack
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Google Cloud's new AI chief is on a task force for AI military uses and believes we could monitor 'pretty much the whole world' with drones
During the 2017 talk on global security, he mentioned the possibility of incorporating digital pers…