Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews is a senior writer for Fortune covering startups and the venture capital industry. Previously, she wrote the daily dealmaking newsletter Term Sheet, where she won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before joining Fortune, she covered wealth management and custody as a reporter at Financial Planning magazine. Jessica was a 2018 Dow Jones News Fund intern, and she interned at CNBC in 2017. She is a graduate from The King’s College in New York City, where she was the editor-in-chief of her student newspaper, the Empire State Tribune. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., you can now find her biking around Bentonville, Ark.

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A Volocopter eVTOL in Versailles, where it flew with no people on board on the last day of the Paris Olympics.

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Inside Iconiq Growth, one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture capital funds that just closed a $5.8B startup war chest

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Wiz CEO says ‘consolidation in the security market is truly a necessity’ as reports swirl of $23 billion Google acquisition

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A person using Ozempic on November 2, 2023, in Madrid, Spain. Novo Nordisk, the Danish firm that manufactures Ozempic, has reported record quarterly results, up almost 3% on the stock market. The company's revenues rose by 38% to DKK 58.73 billion, some 7.8 billion euros. Ozempic is a diabetic drug that causes a loss of up to 15% of body weight because it acts as an appetite suppressant, a side effect that has made the drug fashionable on social media as a weight loss drug.

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An inside look at one of Silicon Valley’s most mysterious venture funds

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Ozempic and Wegovy are marketed as a short-term holy grail for weight loss by some startups. Doctors disagree

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