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After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets
29 Jan 2025Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.
A Youthful Africa Steps Up
30 Jan 2025Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African century.
Celebrity Moguls
13 Jan 2025We cover the rise of entrepreneurship in Hollywood.
Bills and Lions Give NFL Fans in Canada Reason to Cheer
12 Jan 2025With the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions both Super Bowl contenders, fans north of the border are nervously hopeful a title drought could end.
Playing to Win: How a First Nation Turned Around Its Fortunes
29 Dec 2024Steered by an entrepreneurial chief, Membertou First Nation in Nova Scotia led the largest investment by Indigenous people in Canada’s seafood industry.
Removing Carbon From the Sky Could Be the Next Climate Gold Rush
23 Dec 2024Investors are betting that they can make a dent in global warming, and healthy profits, with companies that alter the atmosphere.
Serena Williams compite en una nueva cancha: la inversión
13 Dec 2024“He aprendido a confiar en mis instintos en cualquier aventura empresarial o marca que defienda”, dijo la estrella del tenis jubilada en una entrevista en la Cumbre DealBook.
Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark and the Transformation of Venture Capital
13 Dec 2024The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a profound debate about the future of an industry that funds and fosters American innovation.
Ev Williams, Twitter and Medium Founder, Unveils New Social App
13 Dec 2024The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.
DealBook Summit: Building Trust in an Age of Distrust
12 Dec 2024At this year’s DealBook Summit, there was a sense that trust was becoming harder to come by and that the rules for how people judge the truth had shifted.
From the DealBook Summit: Influential People Share Their Insights
11 Dec 2024Industry leaders attending the conference were asked about artificial intelligence, the economy, international relations and more.
DealBook Summit: Serena Williams Now Competes in the Business World
11 Dec 2024“I’ve learned to trust my instincts in any business venture or brand I’m championing,” the retired tennis star said in an interview at the DealBook Summit.
How Crypto Insiders Turned ‘Debanking’ Into a Political Storm
10 Dec 2024Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
Entrepreneur Plans to Revive a French Family Watch Brand
10 Dec 2024Eberjax, which made chronographs, stopped production in 1983. But Christophe Hoppé intends to start it again.
Why Jeff Bezos Likes ‘Messy’ Meetings
07 Dec 2024The billionaire founder of Amazon spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.
Hannah Neeleman, la mujer detrás de Ballerina Farm, sigue su propio camino
06 Dec 2024Una vida perfecta de esposa mormona ha hecho de Hannah Neeleman una estrella de las redes sociales y un tema de debate cultural.
The NBA Courts That Come From Midwestern Roots and Woods
09 Dec 2024Connor Sports, in the tiny mill town of Amasa, Mich., is one of the leading makers of hardwood floors for top professional and college teams.
The Woman Behind Ballerina Farm, Hannah Neeleman, Makes Her Own Path
06 Dec 2024Her picture-perfect life as a Mormon farm wife has made Hannah Neeleman a social media star and a cultural lightning rod.
Tax Preparers Charged in Scheme to Defraud Covid Relief of $65 Million
30 Nov 2024The preparers filed for pandemic-related tax credits on behalf of ineligible clients and then netted hefty filing fees, officials said.
Silicon Valley’s Richest Woman Hosts a Day of Innovation. Just Don’t Say Trump.
30 Nov 2024As the country’s liberal bubbles mourn the election’s outcome, Laurene Powell Jobs highlighted entrepreneurs’ good work with one rule: “Cheer loudly!”