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Josh Kushner’s Thrive Fund grows sevenfold to $3.7 billion on AI betsThe letter highlights an investing strategy that Thrive pioneered in the venture capital industry: concentrating on a small subset of compa...
PayPal in talks with Stripe and private equity firm over sale: reportIn July, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International made a joint offer to buy the digital payments pioneer for $60.50 a share, whi...
25-year-old hedge fund manager who lost $35 billion in a month eyes fresh capital after AI stock selloffLeopold Aschenbrenner’s AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost around $35 billion in weeks after leveraged bets on AI stocks tu...
To Compete in the Global Economy, Europe Needs to Boost Its VC EcosystemEurope’s struggle to produce globally dominant companies is not a mystery—it is the predictable result of a weak and fragmented venture cap...
How the quick fall from grace of a fund run by 'Nostradamus of AI' triggered a 24-hour race to salvage itLeopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund incurred significant losses and a forced sale of investments. Billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel acquired...
Beyond Bitcoin: Crypto trends investors should watch over the next 6 monthsCoinDCX Co-founder Sumit Gupta writes that disciplined investing through crypto SIPs is replacing market timing. Beyond Bitcoin, structural...
PayPal board sees Stripe-Advent's $53 billion bid as undervaluing company, sources sayPayPal's board considers a $53 billion takeover bid from Stripe and Advent International as undervalued. The company has not formally respo...
How Steve Jobs' billionaire widow Laurene Powell went from skipping family holidays to building a $14 billion fortune and becoming one of the richest women in the USApple co-founder Steve Jobs' billionaire widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, overcame childhood financial struggles and student loan debt. Once too...
US stocks today: US stocks end higher on cool inflation data, strong earningsWall Street closed higher as softer US producer inflation and strong early Q2 earnings boosted sentiment. PayPal surged on a reported buyou...
US stocks today: US stocks rise with earnings in focus; PayPal jumps on takeover bid reportWall Street's indexes experienced a boost on Wednesday, driven by promising inflation figures and robust earnings reports from leading bank...
Govt's revamped chip push; Emergent turns unicornThe Union Cabinet has cleared the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) 2.0 to boost domestic chip manufacturing. This and more in today's ETte...
Preparing Your Brand for Agentic AIAI agents are transforming brand-consumer relationships. The authors explore how brands must adapt to a new retail environment in which con...
Jane Street, TSMC-linked AI startup Etched raises $800 millionAI chip challenger Etched has secured a massive $800 million in funding, with backing from industry heavyweights like Jane Street and a fir...
Meta's Cred deal showcases new playbook: take stake, hire the founderMeta is strategically acquiring minority stakes in tech firms and integrating their founders into senior roles, a pattern evident with Cred...
Manu Chandra's Sauce, the VC making a feast of small servingsSauce VC is set to make an estimated Rs 500-550 crore from L'Oréal's acquisition of Innovist, validating founder Manu Chandra's strategy of...
SpaceX IPO: Indians queue up to invest more in US stocksSpaceX's blockbuster initial public offering has ignited significant interest among Indian investors in US stocks, with trading volumes on ...
How a 22-year-old Indian techie dropped out to build an AI startupA 22-year-old Indian entrepreneur, Kinjal Nandy, has secured significant pre-seed funding for his AI startup, Sonatic, at a ₹191 crore valu...
Four Indians feature in Forbes’ top 50 most successful immigrants in AmericaFour Indian-born business leaders, including Vinod Khosla and Naval Ravikant, have been recognized in Forbes' "America's Most Successful Im...
Amid tech layoffs, this engineering role sees 700% surge in demand, offers salaries up to $200K; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Cloud and McKinsey are hiringAt a time when tech companies are laying off employees, there is a surprising boom for a specific engineering role, with job postings skyro...
Stripe raises $600 million in funding round, making for a $95 billion valuationThat makes Stripe the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced, according to the Financial Times.