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On a drizzly spring morning stroll through New York’s Central Park, Max Junestrand, the 25-year-old Swedish founder behind legal tech startup Legora, opened up about a chip on his shoulder.He started his company over a year after the founding of Harvey, the OpenAI-backed legal tech startup that has emerged as…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Evan King, 30, a startup cofounder in Los Angeles. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I got hired at Meta in 2017 as a software engineer on the integrity team. I loved my job and had no intentions of ever leaving,…
A federal jury in Manhattan has convicted Frank founder Charlie Javice of four counts of defrauding JPMorgan Chase.It took jurors 8 hours of deliberations over two days to reach Friday’s verdict. Over six weeks of testimony, prosecutors proved Javice used fake data to trick the world’s largest bank into buying…
A major security leak involving secure messaging platform Signal sparked widespread alarm throughout the country — but the platform’s founder didn’t appear too concerned.In a post on X on Monday afternoon, Matthew Rosenfeld, who goes as Moxie Marlinspike, poked fun at the group message leak and used it to ironically…
Federal prosecutors say Charlie Javice tricked JPMorgan into paying $175M for her startup, Frank.At her New York fraud trial on Wednesday, her lawyers asked, without success, for a mistrial.They said prosecutors are hiding a key “witness” from jurors: the Frank website itself.Federal prosecutors are hiding an important “witness” from the…
If you’ve heard about AI, you’re probably familiar with Nvidia too.Booming business for the chipmaker has boosted the net worth of CEO Jensen Huang.Here’s a look at the career rise of the Nvidia founder.The AI arms race has been good business for Nvidia, which supplies the highly in-demand chips used…
Chris Hwang, cofounder of The Golden Duck, started the snack brand in 2015 with one product — salted egg yolk chips.A decade on, it’s sold in over 3,000 stores and plans to expand into the US this year.From selling off his cars to afford payroll in the pandemic, here’s how…
Billy McFarland founded the infamous Fyre Festival, which stranded attendees in the Bahamas in 2017.In 2018, he pleaded guilty to fraud charges, one of which was connected to the festival.McFarland was released from prison in 2022 and is now planning for Fyre Festival 2.It’s been eight years since the original…
VC firm Slow Ventures has raised $60 million to invest in content creators.The firm will make $1 million to $3 million bets in exchange for a 10% cut in creator businesses.The firm targets creators with niche audiences, superfans, and big ideas about where to innovate.YouTubers are the new Stanford dropouts.Slow…
Convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave her first interview from prison to PEOPLE Magazine.Her life behind bars includes clerking for 31 cents an hour and teaching French, according to the magazine.Holmes was found guilty in 2022 of fraud in connection with her blood-testing startup.Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has given her…
