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For most of his 20s, James Beshara tried to go big as a startup founder in a hot category where he burned tons of money in hopes of getting...

When Silicon Valley Bank collapsed over 48 hours in March 2023, it marked the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the la...

Lyft co-founder John Zimmer helped spark a movement to revolutionize transportation, but the road was never a smooth one. Zimmer and co-foun...

When Amplitude launched in 2012, the analytics market looked crowded, and the company spent more than a year struggling to find any traction...

When Wade Foster was a kid growing up in Jefferson City, Missouri, there weren’t many models for how to carve out a career in entrepreneursh...

Spreadsheets were originally designed for finance people. But when Howie Liu and his co-founders started Airtable in 2012, they had a deeper...

Long before he attended Stanford, founded software giant Trilogy, or became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, Joe Liemandt wrote a high...

Mårten Mickos isn't the kind of CEO who tries to dream up world-changing ideas or invent brand new markets. Perhaps best known for leading M...

Best known as the CEO who helped transform Google from a promising startup into one of the best businesses in human history, Eric Schmidt ha...

At just 13 years of age, Pedro Franceschi was one of the first to jailbreak the iPhone. By the time he was 15 he had co-founded a payments c...

The most successful founders don't usually chase startup ideas. Instead, they're pulled toward problems they can't ignore. Back in 2009, Mit...

For startups in the zero to one phase, finding product-market fit isn't everything. It’s the only thing. And there are few people in the ent...

Amjad Masad's journey is defined by relentless persistence. Born and raised in Jordan, he borrowed computers to teach himself coding, and th...

When the team behind Box first went looking for funding back in 2005, they tried just about every trick in the book. They sent Bill Gates a...

Guillermo Rauch didn’t find success by accident. He began working on computers as a kid growing up in Argentina and was hooked immediately,...

Long before Plaid became a $13.4 billion fintech juggernaut, it was just another struggling startup. Co-founders Zach Perret and William Hoc...

As the co-founder of Robinhood, Baiju Bhatt didn't just help launch a company. He sparked a movement that fundamentally shifted the dynamics...

When Josh Reeves, Tomer London and Edward Kim founded Gusto in 2012, roughly 40 percent of the employers in the United States were still doi...

Most startups stick to traditional methods of getting their message out. Pattern Breakers, however, don't follow the old rules of marketing....

The team behind the educational technology company Mentava is a small one, but its product idea is extremely ambitious: An app that teaches...
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