Silicon Valley's young founders are giving up alcohol or going San Francisco-sober to 'lock in' for 'grind mode'

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YC founders are getting younger and feeling the pressure

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Garry Tan of Y Combinator
Garry Tan of Y Combinator

Garry Tan, Courtesy of Y Combinator

A 29-year-old entrepreneur's side hustle brought in $40 million in a year. Now she wants to help other 'uninvestable' women.

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Daniella Pierson started The Newsette newsletter as a sophomore in college.

Daniella Pierson

OpenWeb's ousted CEO who refused to quit speaks exclusively with BI about his battle with the board

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Nadav Shoval, CEO of OpenWeb
Nadav Shoval was ousted as CEO of OpenWeb.

OpenWeb

See how different Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech CEOs looked when they first started their companies

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side-by-side of Elon Musk in PayPal's early days in 1999 and then in 2024
Elon Musk today runs several more companies than he did in 1999, when the photo on the left was taken.

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Yeti set out to conquer the cooler market. A supply-chain murder almost derailed it.

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Illustration of two men on a motorcycle holding a gun, following another car in the road.

Anuj Shrestha for BI

Sam Altman thanks Elon Musk for helping to initially bankroll OpenAI — and says now is a great time for tech founders

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Sam Altman giving a presentation.
Sam Altman said he was "very grateful" to Elon Musk for cutting OpenAI an early check.

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Read the pitch decks of 6 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions

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Money in the shape of a heart

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I'm a tech founder who's had to flee Lebanon. The conflict has spiraled at a terrifying rate, but the tech community is still pressing ahead.

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A cloud of smoke rising from buildings into the sky after an airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb.
Laura Jardine Paterson left Lebanon on a chartered flight for British nationals on October 2.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says it's 'insanely hard' to build a business — and ignorance is a 'superpower' for founders

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Jensen Huang outlined how difficult it was to build Nvidia.

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