The stewardess on my red-eye to Argentina was delivering a familiar speech as we got ready for takeoff.
Her voice washed over me as I curled up in a window seat, reading the business plan for a tech startup.
“There are ten emergency exits on this Boeing 777 aircraft,” I…
Tags: Exit strategies Startups
Online daters are using ChatGPT to woo each other on the internet. But what happens when people meet in person for a date? Uh-oh »
Super-fans of “The Sopranos” and “Game of Thrones” weren’t happy…
This past week, something extraordinary happened:
Ordinary investors like you and me were offered the chance to buy “shares” in some of the fastest-growing private companies on Earth.
I’m talking about pre-IPO companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, even SpaceX.
But there’s a catch.
These aren’t actual shares. They’re something called tokens.
…Seventy-six percent of Americans believe you’re not a financial adult until you’ve achieved this one thing. Have you done it? »
Gene therapy is helping deaf children hear again. But soon, anyone — including you — might be…
See the news last week?
A stunning report projects Social Security will run out of money sooner than expected.
Just a few years ago, the projected depletion date was 2035. Then, it was revised to 2034. Now, it’s been revised again — to 2033.
Today, I’ll explain how dire…
Tags: Retirement Social security
Every few decades, Wall Street changes the rules.
First it was blue-chip stocks.
Then it was tech stocks.
More recently, it’s been private startups.
But now the shift is accelerating, fast — toward the Fantastic 40.
Let me explain.
At its recent “East Meets West” investor conference,…
Tags: Fantastic 40 Wall street
A NASA satellite floating around space had been dead since 1967 — until it came alive »
One might be forgiven for assuming Bluetooth is a modern technology. Surprisingly, it dates back to the…
A hairy question is making the rounds of the startup world:
Can Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) make companies so productive that a startup with just one employee will be valued at $1 billion or more?
Today I’ll take a look at this question…
And show you how to use the answer…
Pizza deliveries to the Pentagon are skyrocketing. That can only mean one thing. Can you guess what it is? »
Major retailers like Amazon and Walmart despise paying credit-card fees. So they’re working on a new option:…
Not a million. Not a billion. Not a trillion.
$100 trillion.
That’s how much will be inherited over the next two decades.
Today we’ll look at what the heirs to this fortune plan to do with it…
And why you should do the same.
Over the…
