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On 29 July, after a bumpy few months and a fair share of troubled headlines, Robinhood founders Vlad Tenev, 34 and Baiju Bhatt, 36 each sold around $50 million worth of stock. The mobile-friendly discount brokerage, which pioneered…

From then on, I have loved Brewdog’s many varied products, from Nanny State to Thunderbird. I was impressed with them when they brought out a beer in protest of the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Russia during the Sochi 2014 games. Beer for…

Benedetto Vigna will join the sports car powerhouse in Maranello coming from STMicroelecronics, the French-Italian semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva. Vigna, a physicist by training, rose through the ranks at…

To celebrate Pride Month this year, we take a look at the five companies across the globe that share two similarities – big revenues and an LGBTQ+ CEO at the helm.

The collapse in international tourism has only made matters worse. Whether it’s London’s West End or Tokyo’s Ginza, luxury retailers pack together to attract well-heeled travellers both domestic and international. International tourists…

Vinod brings over 30 years of telecommunications experience to Vodafone, gained in a wide variety of global roles spanning Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Most recently, Vinod was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata…

Just understanding the cause of Tesla’s success through the lens of ‘a car company’ will only provide a partial picture. Tesla may look a lot like a carmaker in the traditional sense of the word. The company manufactures personal vehicles…

It used to be that you would walk into a store or shopping mall, browse casually for a few hours, maybe grab a bite to eat in the food court, then walk out without having purchased anything. Even as vaccination numbers continue to climb,…

For many of the offspring of Silicon Valley, the past year has been a coming of age moment, as they’ve used their technological solutions to solve problems in a socially distanced world. But the poster child of this moment of opportunity…

Founded in 2010 in San Francisco by Irish brothers John and Patrick Collinson, Stripe is a payments business whose software platform allows companies to accept online payments. With customers ranging from small websites and apps to tech…

Bill Gates Gates admitted that he had been obsessed with computers since he was 13. “I mean, then I became hardcore. It was day and night.” His parents were worried about him: “Although he was only in the ninth grade, he already seemed…

Though it may be eyed warily by traditional investment gurus, an array of the world’s most prominent business leaders remain convinced of Bitcoin’s potential – and many have made fortunes off their optimism.