Entrepreneurs

The world’s third-richest person sold some of his Amazon stock for the first time in more than two years.

After remaining invite-only since its launch in 2023, Jack Dorsey’s social media platform, Bluesky, is open to the public.

With $1 trillion in assets and unrivaled returns, the private equity giant has conquered Wall Street, but its 76-year old founder, Steve Schwarzman, isn’t finished. He wants total domination overseas as well— and the firm’s crown prince, Jonathan Gray, has built an ingenious weapon targeting vast amounts of global wealth.

Serial entrepreneur Katy Barfield secured the seed round of funding from Asia Pacific early-stage VC Investible. Her company Yume has redistributed 8 million kilograms of food from customers including Kelloggs, Mars Food and Unilever.

Since 2016, Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink has been working on developing a brain chip that will allow users to control devices using only their thoughts. For the first time, it’s been implanted into a human being.

As of January 1, the 10 richest people on the planet are worth nearly $1.47 trillion—$30 billion more than a month earlier. And Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Bill Gates to become the world’s fifth richest person.

At age 21, Zhang Hongchao started peddling shaved ice treats. A quarter of a century later, he and his younger brother Hongfu have made a fortune selling soft-serve ice cream, coffee drinks and its super popular bubble tea and lemonade.

Apple announced Monday its $3,499 Vision Pro headset will be available in the U.S. on February 2 and pre-orders start on January 19, with CEO Tim Cook calling it “the most advanced consumer electronics device ever created”—months after revealing the mixed-reality headset.

Silvija Martincevic is the CEO of Deputy – an Aussie HR software firm for shift workers. Martincevic, who joined Affirm when it was worth about US$100 million, led the company to its US$24 billion IPO. She says Deputy is on a similar trajectory to ‘massive global scale’.

The billionaire, who dumped most of his stake years ago after he left in disgrace, is still searching for a new legacy backing another sportswear company, investing in real estate and racing to cure a rare disease.