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The rise of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who overcame the COVID-19 travel slump and is now leading the company through rental crackdowns
Brian Chesky, Airbnb's 43-year-old cofounder, had an unconventional path to Silicon Valley. Now his…
Jordan Hart,Dan Latu,Avery Ha…
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Lead School joins Byju’s, Upgrad as the sixth edtech unicorn of India — and the second startup to hit a billion dollar valuation this year
Mumbai-based Lead School is the second startup to make it to the unicorn club this year, after rais…
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AI is leading to the 'revenge of the liberal arts,' says a Goldman tech exec with a history degree
The history major turned tech banker said AI enhances skills like critical thinking, creativity, an…
Meghan Morris
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Stock investors could be 'delusional' if prices continue to rise faster than earnings forecasts, Ed Yardeni says
The S&P 500's forward price-earnings ratio climbed to 22 on Friday, landing about 3 percentage poin…
Ben Winck
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How Peloton is leading the revolution in smart home gyms
Everything you need to know about the digital-fitness boom, including Peloton's rise to stardom, th…
Bethany Biron
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Mark Zuckerberg's reputation has gone from heralded genius to 'worst Bond villain ever.' So why do so many business school grads still want to be the next Zuckerberg?
New MBA grads are flocking to startups, despite their awful success rate. Harvard Business School p…
Jonathan Knee
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WeWork just filed to go public - Check out the company's journey from one SoHo building to a $47 billion valuation
Founder and CEO Adam Neumann opened the first WeWork space in the SoHo neighborhood of New York Cit…
Rebecca Aydin
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We just got one step closer to finding out whether leading coronavirus vaccines work
These are the top stories written by Business Insider's healthcare team for the week ending July 31.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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Nearly half of tech 'unicorns' rely on tricky math to land imaginary valuations
"We found that the average highly-valued venture capital-backed company reported a valuation 49% ab…
Alex Morrell
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DoorDash's food deliveries earned it a $13 billion valuation, but experts say its IPO plans amid market turmoil and a virus outbreak are a recipe for disaster
It could be hard for DoorDash, which is also a member of the unicorn club with a $13 billion valuat…
Troy Wolverton
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The KKR exec heading a new $2.2 billion investing push in fast-growing tech companies says he's looking far beyond Silicon Valley because valuations there can get crazy
In February KKR announced an undisclosed investment in the Rochester, Michigan-based software compa…
Casey Sullivan
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WeWork's school is closing at the end of the academic year as the company ditches passion projects to stem its huge losses
One WeGrow parent, Raj Gupta, has three children in WeGrow, he told Business Insider last month bef…
Meghan Morris,Becky Peterson
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Accountants are making millions from the Canadian cannabis industry, and KPMG is leading the pack. Here's how much each of the top firms is raking in.
The complexities around the cannabis space - namely, rapidly changing laws, volatile stock prices, …
Jeremy Berke
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An inside look at the team leading Coinbase's acquisition spree and its plans to become the Google of crypto
Earn lets people, like marketers, send an email and pay its recipient in cryptocurrency if they rep…
Becky Peterson
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A startup that wants to be a Zillow for office space just raised $10 million in seed funding from Greycroft and leading real estate players
Biproxi's new Off Market service functions like Zillow for commercial real estate, providing free t…
Alex Nicoll
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Exclusive: From Starting-up in Silicon Valley to Investing in the Indian Capital, Kunal Khattar Knows Where the AdvantEdge Lies
An experimentation guy, Kunal studied in Delhi till his post-graduate degree and started his car…
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When keeping it old school in the bond market goes wrong
What makes unstructured fixed income markets "unstructured" is not a lack of transparency. The miss…
Chris White, ViableMkts
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Warren Buffett disciple Scott Black explains why old-school value investing has gotten so difficult - and how he's managed to survive
Black's current investment principles date all the way back to the relationships he forged at Harva…
Joe Ciolli
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The inside story of how an old-school Scottish firm became an early investor in many of Silicon Valley's most prized unicorns, and made a killing in the process
Slater also found a receptive audience in the form of venture capitalists, who make seed investment…
Joe Ciolli
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The most elite school for Silicon Valley startups just threw a wrench into the works
Fellow venture capitalists, especially in the earlier stages, aren't really concerned about the cha…