Finance
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How a Harvard Law grad got 186,000 TikTok followers by teaching aspiring lawyers about landing a job at a big firm
Cecillia Xie, a privacy and data security associate at the law firm Morrison & Foerster, posted her first TikTok in April about...
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Vista Equity Partners is folding alt-data shop 7Park into another one of its portfolio companies just 2 years after buying it for $100 million
7Park Data, which Vista Equity Partners bought for $100 million, is shuttering as a standalone alt-data business and being absorbed into Vista-owned...
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33Virgin Galactic rockets up 18% after Tesla investor Ark reveals it will launch a space-themed ETF
Virgin Galactic co-founder Sir Richard Branson, CEO George Whitesides, and Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya pose together outside of the New York...
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Visa exits $5.3 billion Plaid buy, leaving data-sharing standards up to regulators
Visa-Plaid deal is a no-go, dimming prospects of data-sharing unification. The DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against the deal spurred Visa’s decision, highlighting the...
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34‘Shark Tank’ star Mark Cuban compares the Bitcoin boom to the dot-com bubble, warning many cryptocurrencies won’t survive the coming crash
Steve Jennings/Getty Images Mark Cuban compared the cryptocurrency boom to the dot-com bubble, recommended buyers hedge their bets, and warned them about...
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34Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway scores $1.5 billion gain on GM stock in under 4 months
Warren Buffett Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has likely scored a 70% gain on its General Motors bet in under four...
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Stadiums have been empty. Here’s why Sixth Street is making a big bet on Legends, the company behind the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys luxury suites.
Sixth Street, a $50 billion global investment firm, made a majority investment in Legends, the hospitality management company launched by the owners...
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The Capital riot hurts America’s image that elected officials are ‘not corrupt,’ warns immigrant billionaire Max Levchin (AFRM)
Affirm CEO Max Levchin, who came to the United States as an immigrant at age 16, calls the Capitol insurrection a ‘disgrace.’...
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Read the full memo from Citi’s top brass revealing its new wealth division on the heels of big consumer bank leadership changes (C)
The division will bring together Citi’s private bank, which sat under its institutional business, and wealth units run by its US consumer...
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Affirm CEO Max Levchin just told us why Amex will serve as the buy now, pay later’s ‘North Star’ as it navigates the public markets
Affirm (AFRM) listed on Nasdaq at $49 per share on Wednesday. The buy now, pay later fintech raised $1.2 billion in its...
