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Figma burst onto the public markets last week, surging in share price by 333% and hitting a market cap of over $70 billion in just the first few days of trading. For investors bullish on startups, last week was a rejuvenation after a sluggish stretch in the IPO market. But for Figma cofounder and CEO Dylan Field, last week not …

New Shepard Mission NS-34 Webcast – YouTube Watch On Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will launch a crypto billionaire and five other people to the final frontier today (Aug. 3), and you can watch the action live. The mission — known as NS-34, because it will be the 34th overall flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is scheduled to …

Figma’s IPO on Thursday minted a $1.8 billion fortune for its cofounder and CEO Dylan Field. Gabriela Hasbun for Forbes When staff at San Francisco-based design startup Figma returned from the Christmas holiday in January 2024, they were met with sobering news. A $20 billion takeover by Adobe, which had been stuck in 15 months of regulatory purgatory, had fallen …

A leading North American mining entrepreneur, who wants to open his own US copper mine, has welcomed plans for a 50% tax on copper imports. Robert Friedland, the billionaire founder of Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines and Ivanhoe Electric, told the BBC the tariffs would help re-establish the US copper mining industry. US President Donald Trump has already introduced steel and aluminium …

Not in his 135,000 sq.ft office but video game billionaire Gabe Newell works seven days a week remotely, from the master suite of his $250 million superyacht, Tranquility, reviewing Steam updates between scuba dives and streaming from the Mediterranean  Luxurylaunches Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove “a better approach to game design” at a …

NASA has discovered a massive gold deposit on asteroid 16 Psyche, a metallic-rich body located in the asteroid belt. This asteroid is estimated to contain $700 quintillion worth of metals, including gold, iron, and nickel, reports The Pulse. With such a colossal value, this discovery has the potential to transform humanity’s understanding of resource wealth in the cosmos, though the …

Tyler Perry is keeping his (credit) cards close to his chest. The media mogul, who amassed a net worth upwards of $1.4 billion, revealed that he doesn’t believe in providing family members with handouts. What’s more, the Hollywood filmmaker said that he once went so far as to fire his aunt from a job because she didn’t take it seriously …

Email was once seen as the next frontier of communication that’s fast, accessible, and free to use. But now that inboxes are being flooded with hundreds of emails daily, many people find answering them to be an overwhelming chore. Not Mark Cuban.  The billionaire entrepreneur spends all day dipping in and out of his inbox—he even likes sifting through hundreds …

Billionaire In-N-Out Heiress Lynsi Snyder Reveals She’s Quitting California for Tennessee: ‘It’s Not Easy Here’  Realtor.com ‘Raising a family is not easy here’: In-N-Out CEO says she is leaving California  The Guardian In-N-Out billionaire Lynsi Snyder says her family will leave California along with the company’s headquarters: ‘Doing business is not easy here’  Yahoo Finance In-N-Out CEO makes major announcement, talks expansion plans  ktla.com …

In-N-Out’s billionaire boss leaving California: ‘Doing business is not easy here’  San Francisco Chronicle In-N-Out President moving family out of California  FOX 11 Los Angeles In-N-Out heiress Lynsi Snyder reveals she’s moving family out of California as company expands east: ‘Not easy here’  New York Post In-N-Out billionaire Lynsi Snyder says she is leaving California: ‘Doing business is not easy here’  MSN Heiress to …