Shawn Tully

Shawn Tully

Shawn Tully is a senior editor-at-large at Fortune.

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How Binance turned regular people who plug crypto into millionaires: Inside its 26,000-person influencer army

By Shawn Tully and Alexandra Sternlicht

Lisbon , Portugal – 2 November 2022; Changpeng Zhao, Co-Founder & CEO, Binance, at Media Village during day one of Web Summit 2022 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo By Ben McShane/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images)

Binance, CZ, and NBA star Jimmy Butler and other crypto influencers hit with $1B suit for promoting unregistered securities

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How Binance really operates: The world’s largest crypto exchange boasts vast profits, hefty influencer payouts, and a ticking time bomb on its balance sheet

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The Fed’s ‘stress tests’ were supposed to save banks from the exact crisis now engulfing markets. Here’s how they were so spectacularly wrong

Nobel Prize winner for Economic Sciences Douglas Diamond poses for a portrait in the lobby of his home in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A Nobel-winning economist dissects SVB’s collapse—and predicts what happens next

Nobel Prize winner for Economic Sciences Douglas Diamond poses for a portrait in the lobby of his home in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. October 10, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

The economist who won the Nobel for his work on bank runs breaks down SVB’s collapse—and his fears over what’s next

Portraits of Nelson Peltz and Bob Iger on blue background.

The inside story of how Nelson Peltz got his way at Disney—and his detailed plan for a rebound

Portrait of Weijian Shan

How private equity whiz Weijian Shan went from penniless in the Gobi desert to orchestrating a takeover of one of China’s biggest banks

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There’s a wild theory that the price of Bitcoin is being propped up—and the academic who proved manipulation in 2017 suspects it may be happening again

Fortune Quarterly Investment Guide 2023 Q1

Where to invest in 2023: 5 surprising strategies for beating the indexes this year

Map shows home price changes in America's biggest housing markets

Home prices are down in every one of the top 58 metros according to the latest AEI data. But cities in this region have taken the biggest hit so far

Photo illustration of Karen Lynch, Michael O'Leary and Bob Gamgort.

How CEOs can lead in a recession and come out stronger: 5 powerful strategies from corner-office veterans

Delta CEO Ed Bastian at the opening of Delta’s new terminal in LGA.<br />
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A strategy session in the skies: How Delta CEO Ed Bastian took the airline out of a tailspin into ‘the strongest buying in our history’

LISBON, PORTUGAL – NOVEMBER 02: Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier speaks about “The crypto uprising most didn’t see coming” at Altice Arena on the second day of 2021 Web Summit on November 02, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. The tech event returned to an in-person format this year, subject to some constraints and limited to 40,000 participants, after the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic forced it to go virtual in 2020. It welcomes more than two thousand start-ups, a thousand investors, and more than 700 speakers. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Getty Images)

A crypto security CEO did business with Sam Bankman-Fried and sent a team to the Bahamas. He was shocked by the lack of interest in security controls and FTX’s grand ideas: ‘Maybe we’ll buy Goldman Sachs’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk departs after taking the stand to defend Tesla Inc’s 2016 deal for SolarCity in a case before the Delaware Court of Chancery in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. July 12, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Elon Musk is taking the stand over his $50 billion Tesla compensation. Here’s how he unlocked a pay package almost as big as Delaware’s GDP