Cross Border
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How to beat Wall Street and Silicon Valley simultaneously
The American Dream is alive and well on Wall Street thanks to Robert Smith, the richest black person in America, who has figured out a way to re-engineer both private equity and enterprise software—and used this secret playbook to build a $4.4 billion fortune
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How Francis Holder baked a billion by cornering the Macaron market
Holder realised that American mechanical production and traditional French techniques were the right ingredients to build a bread-and-pastry empire
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From penniless immigrant to multibillionaire
Cable magnate Rocco Commisso has shown an uncanny knack for being at the right place at the right moment
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This Chinese city is the Mecca of hardware startups
For startups at a Shenzhen accelerator, a month's R&D takes only a week
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Inside Charley Shin's multinational food empire
Sandwich chain Charleys Philly Steaks has a presence in 19 countries
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Inside Rethink Impact, a women-first VC Fund
Female entrepreneurs get short shrift from Silicon Valley's VC giants. Jenny Abramson's Rethink Impact sees that as an opportunity to profit
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These are the faces behind China's video surveillance tech
The natural-intelligence node behind a Chinese AI standout
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Meet the most disruptive fintech startup in South Korea
Lee Seung-Gun's payments app has taken young Koreans by storm
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Global prices of cobalt have tripled in the past year. Here's why
Hint: It's a critical element of Lithium-ion batteries
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The San Francisco unicorn that went for a women-engineers-only hiring spree
Challenged by a female employee, Gusto, an HR-software firm, figured out how to improve gender diversity
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How Dhirendra Singh made it big by selling juice in small towns
He found the sweet spot of the rural market with Manpasand