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fa 3 dies

Why Eli Lilly, Amazon And Mastercard Headline Our New Most Innovative Large Companies List

The very notion of “Innovative” is, of course, inherently subjective. But with this new list, Forbes relies solely on hard data that capture dozens of different indicators of sector-leading innovation no matter their industry or age. The ranking is driven by Forbes’ new Innovation Index™, which measures innovation based on volume of patents and intellectual property, research focus, investor confidence, return on equity, media and social media sentiment from data partner SignalAI, and evaluation of company news and statements by synthetic audiences (more on that later). The Index analyzes every company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 list, with the top 100 making the Forbes list. Led by pharma giant Eli Lilly (No. 1) and tech titan Apple (No. 2), the top 10 includes sectors as diverse as manufacturing (Boeing, No. 8) and financial services (Mastercard). But whether it's through R&D investments, market and consumer confidence, and/or the creation of new IP, they all outpace their peers in driving America's business engines forward. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hnewman/2026/08/25/big-bold-breaking-ground-why-lilly-amazon-and-mastercard-headline-our-new-most-innovative-companies-list/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
fa 6 dies

DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It.

Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left America’s fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2026/08/17/the-cost-of-doge-americas-environmental-intelligence-is-going-stale/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 d’ag.

Why Every Major Bank Is Racing To Put Wall Street On The Blockchain

Last week Wells Fargo, the country’s fourth-largest bank with about $2.3 trillion in assets, said it would offer tokenized deposits to corporate and commercial clients this fall. Not long ago, the announcement would have been written off as yet another blockchain trial balloon. Today, it looks more like keeping up with the competition. JPMorgan and Citigroup already operate similar services. JPMorgan’s Kinexys network processes more than $7 billion a day and has handled over $4 trillion since launch. Both banks along with Wells Fargo, Bank of America and more than a dozen other large lenders are also participating in an initiative operated by The Clearing House, a bank-owned payments company, like Zelle, that is developing a shared system for moving tokenized deposits between institutions. The market’s plumbing is moving in the same direction. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, which clears and settles some $15 trillion in U.S. securities trades per day, processed its first live transactions using tokenized securities in July and plans to launch the service in October. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, introduced two tokenized money market products this month. By Nina Bambysheva, Deputy Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
22 d’ag.

Bill Gates-Owned Four Seasons Resort Sued For $100 Million By Disgruntled Members

The homeowners association of Four Seasons Resorts Nevis filed a lawsuit against Nevis Peak Holdings on Tuesday, August 11 in Delaware Chancery Court. Nevis Peak owns the luxury resort and surrounding property, which sits at the base of a volcanic mountain in Pinney’s Beach, a roughly three-mile stretch of beach on the Caribbean island—just north of Charlestown, Alexander Hamilton’s birthplace. Nevis Peak is owned by Cascade, the family office of Bill Gates, which bought the resort a decade ago. As of January 2022, Cascade also owns 71.25% of the Four Seasons, according to the suit. While Four Seasons manages the property, it wasn’t named as a defendant in the suit. He’s owned the Four Seasons with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, whose Kingdom Holding has a 23.75% stake, since 2007. According to the suit, each homeowner paid $100,000 to get in the door at Four Seasons Resort Nevis, the luxury Caribbean island resort long reported as a quiet retreat for such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep and Justin Trudeau. They then pay upwards of $13,000 a year to keep using the place, plus a management fee of 25% on any bills for work the resort does for them and another 15% for major construction. By Alicia Park, Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 d’ag.

Iron Vs Carbon: Funds Surge For Makers Of Batteries That Store Power For Days

Form Energy, which makes iron-based batteries to hold electricity for days, said it raised $750 million to expand production. That follows a $550 million raise by rival Antora Energy to accelerate production of its thermal batteries made from carbon blocks that also hold power for at least 100 hours. Unsurprisingly, data center power demand underpins the investment spike. Form, which began shipping its iron-air batteries this year built at its Weirton, West Virginia, plant, said the latest round, led by T. Rowe Price, boosts its total funding to $2 billion. The company didn’t immediately provide a valuation figure with the latest funds, though Pitchbook estimates the deal values the Somerville, Massachusetts-based company at $4.3 billion. Sunnyvale, California-based Antora has raised $1 billion as of July 31 and is seeking a second plant beyond its current factory in Silicon Valley. Both companies are focused on making batteries out of cheap, domestically available materials that can store power at much lower cost than shorter-term lithium-based battery chemistries, and that also have little to no risk of catching on fire. The technology is also ideal when paired with large-scale solar or wind farms, ensuring a steady supply of cheap, carbon-free energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
fa 5 dies

Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More

Josh Kushner—The Kushner scion and younger brother of Jared—rode the AI wave to an eleven-digit fortune, as his VC firm Thrive Capital nearly tripled its assets thanks to smart bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. Now he’s looking to spend some cash on the NBA’s Lakers. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2026/08/23/josh-kushners-fortune-tripled-this-year-thanks-to-stakes-in-openai-spacex-and-more/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
19 d’ag.

How Private Credit’s Master Of Disaster Made An $800 Million Fortune

Leonard Tannenbaum’s newest venture was supposed to be a sure thing. In 2020, after selling his previous company, Fifth Street, under a cloud of investor litigation and an SEC settlement, the veteran financier recast himself as a pioneering lender to underbanked cannabis firms. Weed was booming as Americans sat out the pandemic stressed and bored. But marijuana was illegal at the federal level, leaving most pot operations shut out of traditional banking. Tannenbaum had the perfect Wall Street pitch: Become the dominant institutional lender to the fast-growing $19 billion industry by offering high yields to stock investors. In early 2021, Tannenbaum and his third wife, Robyn, took their West Palm Beach, Florida–based AFC Gamma (later renamed Advanced Flower Capital) public as a mortgage REIT on the Nasdaq, raising $124 million. Within two years, thanks to successive stock offerings, AFC’s equity value rose to nearly $400 million, as did its loan book. “What amazed me was there was no institutional lender in the space, no reputable lender,” said Tannenbaum on the From Pot to Popular podcast in 2022, part of a media blitz coordinated with his entrance into the sector. “This was a chance to be number one in the industry.” By John Hyatt, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 d’ag.

Meet The Billionaire Utah Couple Behind An E-Commerce Empire

On September 19 last year, the husband-and-wife cofounders of e-commerce company Pattern, David Wright and Melanie Alder, walked up together to the NASDAQ podium in Times Square—both dressed in black button-up shirts and custom blue and purple Nike Air Forces. Wright, CEO of the Lehi, Utah-based company, took the microphone to thank the room full of employees. “Mel and I get asked, ‘How did you do it?’ We didn’t…it’s a team sport,” Wright exclaimed as he took off his shoe, eagerly holding it up to the crowd.It was a surreal moment for Wright and Alder: Ringing the NASDAQ bell was something they’d never imagined when they first began reselling fridge magnets on Amazon out of Alder’s living room in 2013. “We were just trying to bring in a little extra money on the side,” Wright explains from a conference room overlooking Utah’s sprawling mountainscape from Pattern’s headquarters in the tech hub known as Silicon Slopes. “Yeah, in the beginning, it was just us trying to support our families,” Alder chimes in from the seat next to his. At the time, both were married to other people: Alder was raising four children with her now ex-husband, while Wright had six of his own with his now ex-wife. By Alicia Park, Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 d’ag.

This Billionaire Made $360 Million Selling His Psychedelic Company To Eli Lilly

OnEaster Sunday in 2014, Christian Angermayer, the German investor, was on the beach on the Caribbean island of Canouan with three friends, contemplating whether he should take magic mushrooms. Before he made his decision, he called a professor he knew who studies psychopharmacology. He explained to Angermayer that he was in the perfect set and setting, was of healthy mind, and he should try it. So Angermayer, who says he feared he would end up freaking out and living as “a farmer in Argentina,” sprinkled some mushrooms in yogurt, ate it, and let the drugs take hold. “I always say that I need to build a huge mushroom statue there,” says Angermayer, now 48 and worth $1.2 billion. “It was the most important positive experience of my life. When I came out [of the trip], although it took me years to get the thesis right, I had the first inclination that if it helped me this much as a happy healthy person, I can see the validation for how it can help people with mental health issues and beyond.” Angermayer spent the next three years working on that thesis. On December 29, 2017, he took another trip, this time he came away with message from the divine: Go forward. There is no downside. By Will Yakowicz, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15 de maig

The Satire Account Followed By Billionaires: How The Gstaad Guy Built a Luxury Empire

How does a digital creator transition from the Apple Pay growth team to designing a 25-unit, limited-edition Bentley SUV? This week on the Forbes Top Creator Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with the ultimate lifestyle disruptor: The Gstaad Guy. After a 30-second parody video for a friend’s mother went viral on WhatsApp, the creator walked away from a dream role at Apple to build a multimillion-dollar business centered on the archetypes of the ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individual. In this episode, we explore the "reverse intention" of satire. By poking fun at the absurdities of the global elite, Gstaad Guy successfully inverted the traditional marketing funnel, accidentally causing sales for brands like Loro Piana to skyrocket. He shares the disciplined business logic behind his 20-hour production workflow for a single minute of content and reveals why the industry's obsession with "authenticity" is a failing strategy compared to the cultivation of true credibility. The conversation dives deep into the shifting landscape of 2026 luxury consumption, contrasting the "snobbery" of old European wealth with the hype-driven spending of the American market. From the launch of his jewelry brand, Pubel, to the creation of the "Chalet on Wheels"—a Bentley Bentayga specced to mirror the elegance of a Swiss chalet, the Gstaad Guy explains how fiction and humor can be effective tools for capturing the attention of the world's most exclusive consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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