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Emma Grede says her $5 billion Skims empire started with a cold call to Kris Jenner: ‘The difference between me and someone else is, I made it happen’

Emma Grede says her $5 billion Skims empire started with a cold call to Kris Jenner: ‘The difference between me and someone else is, I made it happen’

Emma Grede runs multiple businesses with the Kardashians. In an exclusive interview with Fortune, she reveals that empire can all be traced back to one phone call she made to Kris Jenner that changed everything.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleApril 16, 2026

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Anti-AI sentiment is on the rise—and it’s starting to turn violent

By Beatrice NolanApril 16, 2026

Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg

Harvey’s 30-year-old CEO says failing is a ‘good way to learn’ and destroying his ego led to an $11 billion success

By Jacqueline MunisApril 16, 2026

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Exclusive: Eigen raises a seed round from Benchmark to build the world’s first ‘mutual friend’

By Lily Mae LazarusApril 16, 2026

Canva debuts a new suite of agentic tools, as the design app quietly becomes one of the world’s most used AI services

Canva debuts a new suite of agentic tools, as the design app quietly becomes one of the world’s most used AI services

By Nicholas GordonApril 16, 2026

Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors

Exclusive: Top crypto VCs like Paradigm and a16z see portfolio values shrink amid market downturn and distributions to investors

By Ben WeissApril 16, 2026

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Economy Reed Hastings’s exit from $455 billion Netflix ‘had nothing to do with’ the failed Warner Bros. deal, says Ted Sarandos

By Amanda GerutApril 16, 2026

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Crypto Meet Joe McCann: the high-flying crypto trader held in Tanzania after sudden death of his influencer fiancée Ashly Robinson

By Jack KubinecApril 16, 2026

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Real Estate Gen Z is carving a different path in the housing market by doing it alone

By Jake AngeloApril 16, 2026

Manycore, the first of the Hangzhou ‘Little Dragons’ to go public, pushes ‘spatial intelligence’ as the next wave of AI development

Asia Manycore, the first of the Hangzhou ‘Little Dragons’ to go public, pushes ‘spatial intelligence’ as the next wave of AI development

By Nicholas GordonApril 16, 2026

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Personal Finance NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani points at Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse on Tax Day: ‘Today we’re taxing the rich’

By Catherina GioinoApril 16, 2026

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Politics Iran will ‘for sure’ play in World Cup, FIFA chief Infantino says

By The Associated Press and Nick LichtenbergApril 16, 2026

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Law Carnival Cruise Line ordered to pay $300,000 for serving over a dozen shots of tequila to passenger before she fell down the stairs

By David Fischer and The Associated PressApril 16, 2026

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Economy A world going broke: IMF says America’s $39 trillion national debt is actually a global problem—and AI may be the only rescue

By Nick LichtenbergApril 16, 2026

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Newsletters Crypto VCs were once an exotic species—now they’re part of the tech ecosystem

By Jeff John RobertsJune 20, 2025

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Newsletters South Loop Ventures’s Zach Ellis on investing in Texas and diverse founders

By Allie GarfinkleJune 19, 2025

Raaz Dwivedi, Anish Agarwal, Ahmed Lone, and Raj Agrawal

Newsletters Traversal emerges from stealth with $48 million from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins to reimagine site reliability in the AI era

By Allie GarfinkleJune 18, 2025

Exclusive: Health tech startup Tennr raises $101 million at $605 million valuation to fix the patient referral process

Tech Exclusive: Health tech startup Tennr raises $101 million at $605 million valuation to fix the patient referral process

By Leo SchwartzJune 18, 2025

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Newsletters In Q1 2025, enterprise SaaS M&A deal count hit 210, according to PitchBook

By Allie GarfinkleJune 17, 2025

WhatsApp introduces ads, fulfilling a plan its cofounders hated so much they left over it

Tech WhatsApp introduces ads, fulfilling a plan its cofounders hated so much they left over it

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJune 16, 2025

Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of

Tech Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of

By Jason Del ReyJune 16, 2025

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Newsletters Term Sheet Next: How Facebook’s former chief revenue officer is coaching the next generation of startup founders

By Leo SchwartzJune 16, 2025

WorkWhile, flexible labor platform, raises $23 million Series B

Tech WorkWhile, flexible labor platform, raises $23 million Series B

By Allie GarfinkleJune 16, 2025

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AI Self-made billionaire college dropout Alexandr Wang signs $14.3 billion deal to bolster Meta’s AI efforts: ‘There’s a huge premium to naivete’

By Nino PaoliJune 14, 2025

Newsletters Why Salesforce, PayPal, and Team Car Care leaders call AI agents a game changer for finance

By Sheryl EstradaJune 13, 2025

Ryan King, co-founder of Chime Financial Inc., center left, and Chris Britt, cofounder and chief executive officer of Chime Financial Inc., center, during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq

Newsletters Chime rises 37% as the IPO market opens up

By Luisa BeltranJune 13, 2025

All-wing plane startup JetZero plans to build a $4.7 billion plant in North Carolina

Finance All-wing plane startup JetZero plans to build a $4.7 billion plant in North Carolina

By The Associated PressJune 13, 2025

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AI Exclusive: Easy-to-deploy industrial robot startup emerges from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding

By Jeremy KahnJune 13, 2025

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Newsletters Exclusive: Felicis has raised $900 million tenth fund

By Allie GarfinkleJune 12, 2025

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Newsletters Jensen Huang has a bone to pick with Dario Amodei

By Andrew NuscaJune 12, 2025

Term Sheet Next: Steven Lee, an SV Angel alum, launches Seven Stars with $40 million VC fund for seed and pre-seed AI startups

Tech Term Sheet Next: Steven Lee, an SV Angel alum, launches Seven Stars with $40 million VC fund for seed and pre-seed AI startups

By Allie GarfinkleJune 11, 2025

Chris Britt

Newsletters Neobank Chime to ride wave of IPO enthusiasm, while CoreWeave is best performing offering

By Luisa BeltranJune 11, 2025

Exclusive: Ex-Meta AI leaders debut an agent that scours the web for you in a push to ultimately give users their own digital ‘chief of staff’

AI Exclusive: Ex-Meta AI leaders debut an agent that scours the web for you in a push to ultimately give users their own digital ‘chief of staff’

By Sharon GoldmanJune 10, 2025

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Newsletters Exclusive: Laurel raises $100 million Series C to map where the time goes

By Allie GarfinkleJune 10, 2025

Tech Exclusive: Gusto launches $200 million–plus tender offer

By Allie GarfinkleJune 9, 2025

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Newsletters Venture firm DataTribe raises $41 million to port government-led cybersecurity innovation to the private sector

By Leo SchwartzJune 9, 2025

Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top $10 billion

AI Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top $10 billion

By David Carnevali, Shirin Ghaffary, Katie Roof, Kurt Wagner and BloombergJune 8, 2025

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Newsletters Exclusive: Wholesale marketplace Faire’s Lauren Cooks Levitan moves from president to board—her next step is launching a startup

By Sheryl EstradaJune 6, 2025

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Newsletters Infisical raises $16 million Series A led by Elad Gil to safeguard secrets

By Allie GarfinkleJune 6, 2025

With massive funding round and $31 billion valuation, Anduril is nearing the size of defense industry giants it wants to displace

Tech With massive funding round and $31 billion valuation, Anduril is nearing the size of defense industry giants it wants to displace

By Jessica MathewsJune 5, 2025

I run a $4.2B 9-year-old company that’s acquired 3 startups. M&A makes increasing sense for companies like mine—not just the Fortune 500

Commentary I run a $4.2B 9-year-old company that’s acquired 3 startups. M&A makes increasing sense for companies like mine—not just the Fortune 500

By Yevgeny DibrovJune 5, 2025

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Newsletters Exclusive: Two Palantir alums raise $20 million for infrastructure startup Thread AI

By Emma Hinchliffe and Nina AjemianJune 5, 2025

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Newsletters Nectar Social buzzes out of stealth with $10.6 million backing from GV and True Ventures

By Allie GarfinkleJune 5, 2025

Newsletters Exclusive: Vivrelle raises $62 million to expand its service renting handbags from Prada and Chanel as part of a luxury ‘lifestyle’

By Emma Hinchliffe and Nina AjemianJune 4, 2025

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