Wall Street's Rainmakers: The 20 bankers who hammered out 2025's biggest deals

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Photo collage of last years top investors
Meet 20 investment bankers who drove Wall Street's dealmaking resurgence in 2025.

Sam Britton; Blair Effron; Gary Posternack; Lily Mahdavi; Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI

These 16 rising stars are helping brands like Disney and Nestlé navigate major changes in marketing

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Photo collage featuring Rising stars of brand marketing (Katie Parkes, Zuri Godfrey, Bita Jedo and Benny Gee).

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Microsoft just named Asha Sharma as its new Xbox CEO. Read the memos.

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Microsoft Asha Sharma and Matt Booty
Microsoft's Asha Sharma and Matt Booty.

Microsoft

OpenAI just hired back another employee from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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Peacock's next growth bet: selling subscriptions for other streamers

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THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF SALT LAKE CITY --
Bravo's "Real Housewives" are a mainstay on Peacock.

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Jeffrey Epstein and the monarchy's 'Andrew problem'

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Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew has lost his royal titles following scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein and an alleged Chinese spy.

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Blue Owl shopped debt for a CoreWeave data center. Lenders weren't sold.

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Blue Owl Data Center

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TikToker Khaby Lame's $975 million deal is riding on a crashing stock

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TikTok creator Khaby Lame.
TikTok creator Khaby Lame.

PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP/Getty Images;Dan Whateley/BI.

14 'Second Wave' startups aiming to take the AI era beyond cost cutting

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Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld
Kylan Gibbs, CEO and cofounder of Inworld

Inworld

Meta's metaverse is going mobile — and leaving VR behind

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Mark Zuckerberg wearing a VR headset
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears a virtual reality headset

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