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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.

Disney has lost copyright protection over its earliest creations, Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
LifestyleDisney helpless to prevent spate of knife-wielding Mickey Mouse slasher flicks after losing copyright protection for its iconic mascot
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 4, 2024
Pershing Square hedge fund investor Bill Ackman
PoliticsBillionaire investor Bill Ackman shifts crosshairs to MIT president after Harvard’s Claudine Gay bows to pressure and steps down
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 3, 2024
Elon Musk's Tesla lost the crown as the largest EV maker to BYD of China.
TechNo Christmas miracle for Elon Musk as Tesla loses crown as world’s largest EV maker to Warren Buffett–backed BYD
By Christiaan HetznerJanuary 2, 2024
Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki
TechFrustration mounts as investors await returns on Gen Z metaverse sensation Roblox: ‘2024 is going to be a crucial year’
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 28, 2023
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney
SuccessBud Light and Target were hit with culture war backlash in 2023, but there are ways corporate America can navigate the consumer minefield in a pivotal election year
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 27, 2023
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TechGM’s moonshot bet on self-driving cars sours as Cruise axes a quarter of its workforce
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 15, 2023
Conservative musician Kid Rock
LifestyleBud Light boycott campaigner Kid Rock changes his tune on protests: ‘I think they got the message. The punishment at this point doesn’t fit the crime’
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 14, 2023
Former US vice president and climate campaigner Al Gore
EnvironmentClimate activist Al Gore blasts COP28 outcome as biggest failure in history—it ‘reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word’
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 12, 2023
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PoliticsElon Musk says he’s prepared to go to prison if U.S. government tries to censor X
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 11, 2023
The Spotify logo is being displayed on a smartphone with a Spotify layoff icon in the background
TechSpotify’s CFO cashed in $9 million worth of stock after mass layoffs—now he, too, is out of a job
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 8, 2023
Elon Musk may pay the price for wrongfully terminating a Twitter employee.
TechEx–Twitter exec claims Elon Musk’s cost-cutting zeal gutted a federal agreement—and says he was fired for sounding the alarm
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 7, 2023
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
CompaniesElon Musk claims Tesla is ‘quite far advanced’ in developing game-changing $25,000 EV to be built in Texas
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 6, 2023
The arrival of another Grand Theft Auto sequel will likely be a pop culture phenomenon.
TechRockstar Games forced to release ‘GTA VI’ trailer after leak—and it rocketed to more than 4 million likes on YouTube in the first two hours
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 5, 2023
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
TechSpotify to slash bloated headcount by 17% after CEO Daniel Ek says staff are doing too much ‘work around the work’
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 4, 2023
Tesla CEO Elon Musk next to the Cybertruck concept.
Tech‘If you’re ever in an argument with another car, you will win’—Elon Musk begins selling Cybertrucks as the ‘finest in apocalypse technology’
By Christiaan HetznerDecember 1, 2023
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