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Rivian Automotive is an American based, and purely electric, car manufacturer that came onto the scene in the 2010s. Founder RJ Scarnige, a mechanical engineer coming out of MIT, began his automotive industry journey with high values around
By Joe Ladocsi
For years, businesses have struggled with a familiar bottleneck: the need for custom software tools far outpacing the availability and affordability of skilled developers. While Knack has been around for over a decade, the recent…
By Allison Lee
In a move that blends aggressive trade policy with populist healthcare reform, the Trump administration has unveiled "TrumpRx," a sweeping initiative designed to lower drug prices by bypassing traditional insurance models and leveraging…
By Bobby McCarthy
When the Social Dilemma hit Netflix in 2020, it wasn’t just a documentary: it was a wake-up call. Viewers around the world suddenly saw the inner mechanics of their favorite apps exposed. The film featured former engineers and executives…
By Nich Reich
Did you know that stablecoins have been around for over a decade at this point? You probably have never heard of stablecoins, nor know what they are, like me before researching this topic.
By Andrew Johnson
Every day, we measure life in steps, calories, and notifications. Whoop asks a different question: what if we measured how well we recover? The screenless band doesn’t want attention. In the productive world we live in, Whoop offers…
By Jackson Krill
Founded in 1971 in Seattle's Pike Place Market as a coffee bean wholesaler, Starbucks built a global cafe powerhouse anchored in the idea of the cafe as a "third place", a warm, welcoming space between work and home. For decades, Starbucks…
By Tyler Mook
Palantir Technologies has evolved from a private intelligence contractor into one of the most influential firms in the world. Founded through the support of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the company now sits at the center of nationa
By Tony Provenza
World-renowned company Airbnb began simply from the bare bones in its name: an airbed and breakfast. When the 2007 San Francisco Design Conference left all hotels fully booked in the area, the now Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky and his college…
By Joe Ladocsi
The healthcare industry in the United States is immense, by far the largest privatized healthcare system in the world. It employs millions of doctors, nurses, administrators, researchers, and support staff, and is valued at over $5…
By Teddy Stonestreet
When offices shut down in 2020, the world’s work culture changed overnight. Millions of employees set up makeshift offices in their bedrooms and learned that “commuting” could mean walking from the kitchen to the laptop. What began as a…
By Jake McManus
For generations, LEGO has been more than just a toy—it has been a universal language of creativity, teaching children (and adults) that with a handful of bricks, you can build entire worlds. But in the early 2000s, the company behind this…
By Zach Falls
Spirit Airlines entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a multi-year squeeze from three fronts: a blocked and terminated merger with JetBlue, fleet capacity and reliability issues, and a struggling balance sheet with persistent losses.
By Brody Page
In April 2022, Netflix shocked Wall Street by reporting its first subscriber loss in more than a decade. The news wiped out nearly $50 billion in market value in a single day and forced investors to ask a question once unthinkable: had the streaming pioneer’s growth story finally peaked?
By Brandt Bickford