Ian Mount

Ian Mount is a journalist, author and ghostwriter with over 20 years of experience covering business, technology, politics, wine, sports, and culture in Spain, Argentina, and the U.S. Bylines include Financial Times, New York Times, Businessweek, U.S. public radio (The World, Marketplace, and Only a Game), NewYorker.com and, of course, Fortune. His book Vineyard at the End of the World (W.W. Norton, 2012) was chosen for the J.P. Morgan Private Bank summer reading list (aka the “Billionaire’s Book Club”).

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  • Screenshot of the S&P 500Finance

    Markets close up across the board on AI, Fed optimism

    By Ian Mount and Brooke Seipel
  • Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index today.Finance

    Stocks rise as China adds to stimulus with more measures

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  • The Shanghai Stock Market todayFinance

    Stocks mixed as markets take a breather after China’s economic stimulus announcement

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  • The Shanghai Stock Market today.Finance

    Stocks rise as China announces economic stimulus package

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 21: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (C) looks on during a press conference at Hamilton Families on November 21, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Wojcicki and her husband Dennis Troper joined San Francisco mayor London Breed and Google.org representatives to announce that they would be donating a combined $1.35 million to Hamilton Families, a San Francisco based non-profit that provides long-term housing solutions to homeless families. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Newsletters

    Susan Wojcicki knew what working parents need—Elon Musk does not

    By Diane Brady and Ian Mount
  • Dan Amos, chairman and chief executive officer of Aflac Inc., left, and Catherine Hernandez-Blades, chief brand and communications officer of Aflac Inc., right, pet the Aflac duck on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. Stocks held early gains even as shares of Apple and Asia-based suppliers slumped after President Donald Trump insisted his trade war with China will spur more manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesNewsletters

    Aflac CEO Dan Amos on aging, succession planning, and running a family-founded company for 34 years

    By Maria Aspan and Ian Mount
  • Newlight CEO Mark Herrema at the Eagle 3 Production Facility in California.Features

    A California startup is turning greenhouse gas into a biodegradable plastic alternative that’s being used by Shake Shack, Nike, and H&M

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  • Farmer driving tractor spraying pesticide and insecticide on lemon plantation in Spain. Weed insecticide fumigation. Organic ecological agriculture. A sprayer machine, trailed by tractor spray herbicideFeatures

    Farmers use $60 billion of pesticides each year. 2 MIT scientists have developed a new technology that could cut that number in half

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  • Circles 100 Car Project<br /> Michael Todd—Vanderbilt UniversityFeatures

    Scientists are partnering with Nissan, GM, and Toyota to break up those annoying ‘phantom’ traffic jams using A.I. and cruise control

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  • RWE Renewables, Onshore, Painting one turbine blade black, 22 sept 2022Features

    Wind farms kill millions of birds each year. Scientists may have found a simple solution: paint turbines black

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  • MycoWorks CEO Matt Scullin and founders Sophia Wang and Phil Ross have raised $187 million from investors for their mushroom “leather” startup.Features

    Mushroom ‘leather’ realistic enough for $4,200 Hermès handbags has raised over $187 million from investors like Natalie Portman, John Legend, and GM

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  • An Actual sample map block of a sheep farm with data on livestock, carbon, biodiversity, and water.Features

    A Silicon Valley startup inspired by SimCity gamified decarbonization and now is helping New Zealand sheep farmers reduce their ‘fart tax’ liabilities

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  • FASHION-FRANCE-WOMEN-COPERNIFeatures

    He sprayed on Bella Hadid’s dress in that viral stunt. Now the inventor of fabric-in-a-can wants to revolutionize fashion’s slow, dirty supply chain

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  • Lauren Flanagan (R) and her co-founders Namit Jhanwar (C) and Adam Kasefang (L)Features

    Diesel generators power natural disaster cleanups. After Hurricane Ian, an SaaS pioneer and angel investor deployed an alternative: Mobile, solar-based nanogrids

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  • Astroscale management with the ELSA-d satellite, launched in 2021. Founder and CEO Nobu Okada is third from left.

    A 40-year-old IT entrepreneur solved his midlife crisis by launching a space junk startup that pioneered a $14.3 billion industry

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