How People Get Rich Now

Every year since 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the richest Americans. If we compare the 100 richest people in 1982 to the 100 richest…

Arguably it's slightly misleading to treat tech as a category. Isn't Amazon really a retailer, and Tesla a car maker? Yes and no. Maybe in 50 years,…

Why are people starting so many more new companies than they used to, and why are they getting so rich from it? The answer to the first question,…

But it wasn't just decay from within that broke up J. P. Morgan's economy. There was also pressure from without, in the form of new technology, and…

Once you understand how these mechanisms work, and that startups were suppressed for most of the 20th century, you don't have to resort to some vague…

But there's no contradiction here; the startups that raise the most are the ones doing it by choice, in order to grow faster, not the ones doing it…