AN UNDER-THE-RADAR VC CLIMBS THE RANKS
Kushner paved a path outside his famous family. Now he’s a billionaire, thanks to bold bets on Instagram, Stripe, and OpenAI—and he’s running his biggest-ever port-folio. Here’s how he did it.
THE SEC’S COMBATIVE GARY GENSLER
Relentless, ambitious, and media-savvy, the former Goldman Sachs banker has become an unlikely hero among critics of Wall Street. But the SEC chair’s over-the-top intensity could set him up for a fall—and undermine the very investor protections he’s fighting for.
Reaching for the SKKY
After founding Skims, the apparel brand now worth $4 billion, Kim Kardashian wants to make the unlikely leap from celebrity startup founder to private equity titan. Big names from finance and retail are jumping on board.
HOW GREEN IS ELON MUSK, REALLY?
Earth faces an imminent threat, and unless we change our course, human life as we know it will become impossible here. What do we do?
Most would say we must do all we can to prevent that bleak scenario by limiting the harmful impact of human activities. “There is no planet B,” environmentalists point out.
Ask the billionaire Elon Musk, however, and you may get a very different reply. “We don’t want to be one of those single-planet species,” Musk said in 2021 at the launch of a SpaceX rocket into orbit. “We want to be a multi-planet species.” Musk added that he is “highly confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars in the near future.
AN UNDER-THE-RADAR VC CLIMBS THE RANKS
Kushner paved a path outside his famous family. Now he’s a billionaire, thanks to bold bets on Instagram, Stripe, and OpenAI—and he’s running his biggest-ever port-folio. Here’s how he did it.
THE SEC’S COMBATIVE GARY GENSLER
Relentless, ambitious, and media-savvy, the former Goldman Sachs banker has become an unlikely hero among critics of Wall Street. But the SEC chair’s over-the-top intensity could set him up for a fall—and undermine the very investor protections he’s fighting for.
Reaching for the SKKY
After founding Skims, the apparel brand now worth $4 billion, Kim Kardashian wants to make the unlikely leap from celebrity startup founder to private equity titan. Big names from finance and retail are jumping on board.
HOW GREEN IS ELON MUSK, REALLY?
Earth faces an imminent threat, and unless we change our course, human life as we know it will become impossible here. What do we do?
Most would say we must do all we can to prevent that bleak scenario by limiting the harmful impact of human activities. “There is no planet B,” environmentalists point out.
Ask the billionaire Elon Musk, however, and you may get a very different reply. “We don’t want to be one of those single-planet species,” Musk said in 2021 at the launch of a SpaceX rocket into orbit. “We want to be a multi-planet species.” Musk added that he is “highly confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars in the near future.