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Usha Vance's new life in Trump's WashingtonUsha Vance, once a lawyer, is now the Second Lady. She has settled into her new life in Washington. She supports her husband, Vice Presiden...
26 Jun, 2025, 11.30 AM IST
It's over for Taylor Swift. 30-year-old techie becomes youngest self-made billionaire woman: What's her connection to OYO founder Ritesh Agarwal?Lucy Guo, a 30-year-old entrepreneur, has surpassed Taylor Swift as the youngest self-made billionaire woman, fueled by a significant valua...
20 Apr, 2025, 11.16 AM IST
College kids may have access to classified files of US govt agencies handling its $6 trillion budget, courtesy of Elon Musk's DOGENineteen-year-olds, some still in college, have been granted access to classified US government files, influencing federal agencies through...
04 Feb, 2025, 08.39 PM IST
'Set for a new beginning!' OYO boss Ritesh Agarwal, fiancée invite PM Modi for their March nuptialsThe OYO Rooms founder is one of the country’s youngest billionaires.
20 Feb, 2023, 12.48 PM IST
Peter Thiel missed out on China. Now he’s betting on patriotismA persistent view Thiel has held is that China doesn’t make it easy for foreigners to buy a stake in the country’s prosperity.
02 Aug, 2019, 11.43 AM IST
Dreamers and dropouts: Stories from Stanford, cradle of unicornsThe university has invested more than $150 million in the Stanford-StartX Fund through the end of 2018.
11 Mar, 2019, 04.31 PM IST
The Y Combinator touch: How this Silicon Valley incubator is helping Indian entrepreneursFast Company calls it the world’s most powerful startup incubator. Fortune magazine calls it a spawning ground for emerging tech giants.
22 Aug, 2016, 01.41 PM IST
How an education startup, Make School, is challenging conventional computer science education in Silicon ValleyApart from free online courses, Make School offers a two-month coding bootcamp and two-year programme (with six-month internship) that teac...
22 Nov, 2015, 06.12 AM IST
The 30 most successful Stanford alumni of all timeThis year, Stanford topped our lists as the best and most selective college in the US. As such, it attracts an extremely talented and intel...
18 Jun, 2015, 01.55 PM IST
Meet the PayPal mafia, the richest group of men in Silicon ValleyThe company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires, and generation-defining companies.
22 Sep, 2014, 02.42 PM IST
Meet the 19-year-old developer who turned down Apple19-year-old John Meyer dropped out of a prestigious university computer science program to work full-time on his tech startup, Fresco News.
22 Sep, 2014, 02.03 PM IST