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Jul 6
To make big money in business, you usually have to do something no one else can do, or have something no one else can have. Steve Ross did neither. Nor did Wayne Huizenga, or the great bearded Mark Leonard. Ross started out renting his father-in-law's funeral parlor limousines
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Sep 25, 2025
Thomas Peterffy is the 23rd richest person in the world, a chief architect of modern finance, and has one of the most remarkable stories in business. Yet he remains virtually unknown. Born in a Budapest basement during a Soviet bombing raid in September 1944, his father left
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Oct 14, 2025
This is the category-defining profile of one of the most important figures and institutions in American business, investing, and technology. Joshua Kushner and Thrive Capital. Kushner and his partners speak, as do Sam Altman, Jony Ive, Demis Hassabis, and John Collison. It’s a
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Jul 24, 2025
Ramtin Naimi started a successful hedge fund at 19, went bankrupt at 24, and then built a $1.8 billion venture firm backed by investing icons like Stanley Druckenmiller, @pmarca, and @BillAckman. Michael Ovitz calls Naimi his “non-biological son.” Founders say he’s “the most
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Oct 13, 2025
Tomorrow.
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Oct 14, 2025
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Josh Kushner, Thrive, and the New World
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Sep 26, 2025
1982: Thomas Peterffy injures his knee, so he can't stand on the trading floor. His solution? He hacks a data feed and hires six beautiful women to trade for him.
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Jul 6, 2023
Brunello Cucinelli is an outlier. He proves you can have balance and a billion-dollar business: 1 - Here, you start at 8 AM and at 5:30 PM you are forbidden to work any further. No emails can be sent to more than two addressees, just one or two. No group mailing. 2 - "The daily
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Apr 3, 2025
Rippling founder and CEO @parkerconrad on Neil Mehta during the SVB crisis:
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Sep 25, 2025
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Read the profile:
The Making of a Market Maker
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Sep 11, 2025
Legendary venture investor @ganeumann flips the hottest assumption in business: AI’s disruption is real, he argues, but the profits won’t accrue where the hype says they will. Instead of minting a generation of model builders and app startups, this revolution looks more like
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Apr 5, 2021
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Aug 21, 2025
After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.” Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder
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Apr 12, 2023
At 19, Yvon Chouinard was a broke mountain climber making and selling climbing equipment from his trunk. Over the next 65 years, he transformed that business into a multi-billion dollar company. Here are the lessons from how he built Patagonia: