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Has Marc Lore Discovered the Secret to Entrepreneurship?
This visionary, tactician, operator, disrupter, competitor, and former track star has won many ways--and always with speed.
HIBT Lab! Burn Rate: Andy Dunn
From the outside, it seemed like Andy Dunn was living the dream. His menswear company, Bonobos, was acquired by Walmart for $310 million in 2017 — the same year he married the love of his life, Manuela. Of course, Andy’s entrepreneurial journey wasn’t without its challenges.
The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis
In an American economy of winners and losers, it’s clear where Marc Lore falls. He founded two e-commerce startups and sold them for $550 million and $3.3 billion before spending the last five years running Walmart Inc.’s online shopping division.
Bonobos cofounder Andy Dunn reveals his bipolar disorder
In his memoir, ‘Burn Rate,’ Bonobos founding CEO Andy Dunn shares how bipolar I disorder nearly derailed his personal and professional life. An exclusive excerpt.
Mobile brokerage Tornado focuses on financial education, secures investment from Alex Rodriguez
Bernard George, Tornado co-founder and CEO, and Alex Rodriguez, A-Rod Corporation chairman and CEO, join ‘Closing Bell’ to explore Tornado’s business model. Rodriguez explains why he decided to invest, and George explains why he founded Tornado.
A-Rod-backed sports betting app Mojo wants to let you bet on athletes like stocks
Bandit, NYC’s New Community-Centered Running Brand, Takes on New York City Marathon
This year is one for the books as Brooklyn-based challenger apparel upstart Bandit Running has announced an eventful weekend itinerary that aligns back to its ambitious mission to “Evolve the full experience of running.”
These Tech Startups Want to Sell You Their Life Insurance
Bestow Inc. and Dayforward Inc. are making the leap to become life-insurance carriers, a move away from a model where startups only sell traditional insurers’ policies.
How Banks Could Bail Us Out of the Climate Crisis
Aspiration, on the Web, is a bank in all but name (deposits are F.D.I.C. insured), and it’s made cleanness a chief selling point.
Shopping will be way less annoying this year. These are the 3 big changes you’ll see
One exciting new platform launching in 2022 is Wizard Commerce. Cofounded by Marc Lore, Walmart’s former head of e-commerce, and Melissa Bridgeford, a tech entrepreneur, the company raised $50 million in funding in October.
Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz creates startup Sun and Thunder to build synthetic beings
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has started a new company called Sun and Thunder to focus on AI characters and interactive storytelling.
Mantra that high-earners need college degrees ‘is not true anymore,’ Forge CEO says
Forge CEO and Founder Mark Kasdorf joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the differences between trade schools and universities, the Forge apprentice program and its benefits, and the outlook for the labor market.
Photobucket still has your photos, and it wants you to come back
After a disastrous year, Photobucket wants people to trust it with their memories.
Vinit Bharara and Marc Lore have each started several companies, including Diapers.com, which they co founded and sold to Amazon for $550 million. Their latest venture, a new kind of sports-betting app called Mojo, harkens back to one of their first businesses together, The Pit, which was a site for trading sports cards that Topps bought in 2001.
HIBT Lab! Wonder: Mark Lore
Picture this: you just wrapped a long day of work and you are starving! You open a delivery app and place an order from your favorite restaurant. About an hour later, you get a notification that your meal has arrived. You’re practically salivating as you tear open the bag, and then...a rude awakening — your dinner became cold and soggy in transit.
Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn reveals bipolar disorder diagnosis in new book "Burn Rate"
Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is opening up about his secret experience with bipolar disorder. Dunn joins "CBS Mornings" to talk about his new book "Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind" and why he is working to break the stigma around mental health in the business community.
Former Walmart president reveals plan for $400-billion Utopian city in the US desert
Billionaire and former Walmart president Marc Lore helped outline a plan for a $400 billion metropolis, tabbed "the new city in America," to be built in the desert if properly funded.
Pulisic Re-Enters the Chelsea Proving Ground, Prepared for What’s Ahead
Raheem Sterling’s arrival and Chelsea’s transfer activity put the pressure back on the U.S. star to reaffirm his place entering another season in the Premier League spotlight.
Can conversational commerce catch on globally?
Conversational commerce is providing brands in Asia Pacific, South America, and Africa with better ways to connect with clients. We unpack the lessons.
A Former CEO Comes to Terms With His Bipolar Disorder
Andy Dunn, co-founder of menswear brand Bonobos, talks about going public with his ‘ghost,’ and destigmatizing mental illness in the workplace.
When Your Boss Is Crying, but You’re the One Being Laid Off
Andy Dunn, for example, who co-founded the apparel company Bonobos and now runs Pumpkin Pie, a social app start-up, recently gathered his employees on a video call to tell them about his diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which is the subject of a book he released this year, “Burn Rate.”
How AI is Changing Shopping with Wizard CEO Melissa Bridgeford
Melissa Bridgeford, co-founder & CEO of Wizard Commerce, talks with Scott and Nora about her AI-driven conversational commerce startup and the future of retail. Plus: A look at the emergence of text-based and voice-based shopping, and the AI technology behind it.
Alex Rodriguez, Bron Among Investors in New Social Commerce Company NOWwith
Founded by Nicole Winnaman and Abra Potkin, the soon-to-launch platform is designed to let stars and influencers seamlessly sell products through their social feeds.
The CEO of Wonder Group breaks down why he's redefining at-home dining and creating the city of the future.
This California investor predicts a 10-year ‘good economy’ revolution that shoves the sharing economy aside
Startup Aspiration cofounder Joe Sanberg says a political run, part of his war on poverty, is in the mix.
Billionaire Marc Lore wants to build a utopian city based on ‘equitism’
Internet billionaire Marc Lore worries about the growing wealth gap in America. His answer? Create a new utopian city.
Bernard George, co-founder & CEO of online brokerage Tornado, talks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde, Joe Weisenthal and Romaine Bostick on "What'd You Miss?" about the rise of retail trading. Tornado just rebranded and announced a new funding round that included backing from Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore, and Dave Portnoy.
Wonder CEO discusses company growth, ability to expand into cities
The “Mad Money” host spoke with Wonder Group CEO Marc Lore on Monday’s episode of the show.
Gwyneth Paltrow joins the board of Marc Lore’s food delivery startup Wonder
After his divorce, Jet.com founder Marc Lore wasn’t sure how he wanted to plan meals for himself. “I was living alone, ordering food in. I wasn’t cooking,” he says. “It just sort of hit me that when I was married, my ex-wife stayed at home with the kids, and she cooked meals. Many families don’t have that luxury.”
Bridgeford described Wizard as an opportunity “to build our vision on a much larger scale and to partner with Marc, who’s really a tremendous visionary in retail tech and really a proven founder and a proven operator.”
Marc Lore of Jet.com and Diapers.com has a few things to say about HR
The serial entrepreneur thinks startups need to get serious about human resources and pay equity.
Tornado CEO: There's a 'crisis in investing education'
There's a "crisis in investing education," according to mobile trading app Tornado's CEO and co-founder Bernard George.
Metaverse: ‘The internet today will look like newspapers from the 1950s,’ expert says
Sun and Thunder CEO & Founder Rony Abovitz joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss Meta earnings and the outlook for the metaverse.
Fans Can Buy Stock in Top College Quarterbacks With New App
The way that sports fans make financial investments is about to be taken to a whole new level thanks to a new company called Mojo.
Electric Jets, Buried Trash And Controlled Ownership. Welcome To Marc Lore’s ‘City Of The Future.’
Built like The Rock—but with an accent forged on Staten Island—Marc Lore fills nearly every pixel of his Zoom screen as he unpacks a $10 billion moon shot: a “city of the future” that would one day house 5 million people in the Nevada desert. Or maybe in Texas, Arizona or somewhere in Appalachia. We’ll see.
Vinit Bharara breaks down past business ventures including Cafe.com, Diapers.com, working with his brother Preet, and the thesis behind Mojo.
Jet.com founder Marc Lore on strategy for his new venture firm with A-Rod
E-commerce was one of the areas that hit hard in Wednesday’s sell-off. Marc Lore, founder of Jet.com and the venture capital firm Vision/Capital/People, joined “Squawk Box” on Thursday to discuss his outlook on the sector as the economy begins to reopen, his new VC fund and more.
Leap before you look
Marc Lore is all too familiar with leaping into the unknown. One thing he’s learned from all of his audacious endeavors: you can’t leap alone. You need to convince your team, and more importantly, your customers to leap with you.
Facebook adds Photobucket and Google Calendar to its data portability options
Facebook has today announced that it has added two new destinations for when you want to move your data from the social network. In a blog post, the company said that users will be able to move their images to Photobucket and event listings to Google Calendar.