Christiaan Hetzner is a former writer for Fortune, where he covered Europe’s changing business landscape. He’s reported from Germany for the past two decades and is passionate about tracking industry’s intersection with finance and policy as they collectively target a net-zero society. Shaped by his time in Frankfurt covering the collapse of the dotcom stock market bubble for Dow Jones Newswires, he joined Reuters in 2004 before shifting to commentary and features for Automotive News Europe ten years later. Hailing from upstate New York, he is a graduate of Georgetown University.
LeadershipElon Musk and his fellow CEOs are outpacing their workers with fastest pay growth in 14 years—but some still justify massive pay packages by ‘fairness’
By Christiaan HetznerJune 17, 2024
RetailRoaring Kitty sends a hidden message to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen by raising stake to 9 million shares
By Christiaan HetznerJune 14, 2024
TechElon Musk declares victory in crunch CEO-pay vote hours before Tesla shareholder meeting even begins
By Christiaan HetznerJune 13, 2024
RetailGameStop pockets record $2.1 billion from snap share sale that tanked the stock, and no strings are attached
By Christiaan HetznerJune 12, 2024
By Christiaan HetznerJune 11, 2024
TechElon Musk says Tesla retail shareholders still back him despite big investors like Norway’s $1.7 trillion oil fund saying they will vote against his pay package
By Christiaan HetznerJune 10, 2024
TechTesla shareholders’ vote on Elon Musk’s record $56 billion pay deal could be his ‘last stand’ as CEO, experts warn
By Christiaan HetznerJune 7, 2024
FinanceRoaring Kitty was poised to become a freshly minted billionaire until GameStop threw a monkey wrench in the plan
By Christiaan HetznerJune 7, 2024
TechTwitter founder Jack Dorsey warns social media algorithms are draining people of their free will—and Elon Musk agrees with him
By Christiaan HetznerJune 6, 2024
TechElon Musk admits diverting Tesla’s AI chips to his other companies, claiming ‘they would have just sat in a warehouse’
By Christiaan HetznerJune 5, 2024
TechMicrosoft is laying off workers at its Mixed Reality business as the technology that inspired Mark Zuckerberg to rename his company struggles
By Christiaan HetznerJune 4, 2024
TechElon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low
By Christiaan HetznerJune 3, 2024
PoliticsTrump’s fundraising site crashes after guilty verdict as both Biden and Trump campaigns use hush payment trial to drum up donations
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