Entrepreneurs
The builders behind fast-growing companies and new industries.

Chase Briscoe Builds His Own Racing Venture, Forging a Path Distinct From Mentor Tony Stewart
NASCAR driver Chase Briscoe is stepping into a new entrepreneurial lane, launching a sprint car racing operation that draws inspiration from his childhood idol Tony Stewart without simply replicating…
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The Unlikely Founder Who Built ESPN From a Parking Lot Idea
Few sports media empires trace their origins to a moment as unremarkable as a traffic jam, but according to Forbes, that is precisely how ESPN was born. Bill Rasmussen, a broadcaster who had recently…
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Why Germany's Finance Sector Is Rewarding Niche Skills Over Broad Resumes
As Germany's banking, asset management and fintech sectors navigate a prolonged period of digital transformation and cost discipline, a growing body of career advice suggests that generalist resumes…
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Meet Peyush Bansal, Whose Plan to Help India See Better Made Him a Billionaire
Sixteen years after founding the eyewear retailer Lenskart, Peyush Bansal is worth an estimated 1 billion dollars, riding a November 2025 IPO and a chain of nearly 3,500 stores that has turned clearer vision into an 11 billion dollar company.
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The New Circle of Influence: How Irina Biss Is Bringing Together the World's Leaders in Longevity, Innovation and Culture
Entrepreneur and founder of Leadership Access Group Irina Biss builds invitation-only communities where physicians, scientists, investors and cultural leaders connect around longevity, innovation and culture.
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Jeff Bezos Says the Cure for Work Stress Is Action, Not Overwork
The Amazon founder argues that anxiety is a signal of avoidance, not a sign of too much work. His fix is to read the feeling, take one concrete first step, and pull other people into the problem.
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From a First Meeting to a Shared Project: Alyona Iakymchuk on the Art of Collaboration
For international entrepreneur Alyona Iakymchuk, the true value of a night at Cannes, Monaco, or Paris is not the red carpet photograph but the partnership that begins once the evening ends. Her approach treats networking as the slow work of building trust between people who share values.
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The Small Business Case for AI That Adds Jobs Instead of Cutting Them
The fear is that artificial intelligence will thin out small company payrolls. The early evidence points the other way, with most small firms that adopt AI adding staff rather than shedding it.
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Inside Lovable, Where 200,000 New Apps a Day Are Built by Typing in Plain English
Lovable turns everyday sentences into working software, and the user built sites it hosts now pull in 600 million visits a month. Its founders explain what it takes to run vibe coding at that scale.
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The Coffee Bean Fee That Built an 11 Billion Dollar Payments Fortune
A 500 dollar wire transfer fee on a coffee order set Jack Zhang on the path to Airwallex, the cross border payments company now valued at 11 billion dollars that has made him a fintech billionaire.
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How iFAST Grew From a Singapore Fund Shop Into a 25 Billion Dollar Wealth Platform
A quarter century after it launched as an online store for mutual funds, iFAST now administers 33 billion Singapore dollars, runs a bank in London and a pension engine in Hong Kong, and is chasing a 100 billion dollar goal by 2030.
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How One Small Business Owner Clawed Back $15,000 in Tariff Refunds
After a Supreme Court ruling forced the government to return billions in unlawful duties, a maker of bags for nursing mothers navigated a clunky federal portal to recover more than 15,000 dollars. Her experience is a map for other importers.
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