Alta was exactly what Amy Wu Martin was looking for. Last year, Wu Martin, an investor at Menlo Ventures, was searching for a startup that used AI to address the lack of personalisation in online shopping. After being introduced to Jenny Wang and trying out a beta version of her personal styling app Alta —…
Tesla celebrated a historic first on Friday when a new Model Y left the factory in Austin and—without anyone in the vehicle—drove itself to a waiting customer a half-hour away. Already the second milestone this week after the commercial deployment of his robotaxi service, it marks an early birthday present for CEO Elon Musk. The entrepreneur had promised…
When Elon Musk first launched a bid to acquire Twitter three years ago, a move many of his supporters would grow to oppose, the entrepreneur’s most trusted lieutenant at Tesla quickly chimed in to offer his unconditional support. “Thank you for what you’re doing. We all love you and are always behind you!” Omead Afshar…
Was he always so lucky? Yes. Was wealth an aphrodisiac? No. In October 1980, Donald Trump, 34 years old, slender and soft-spoken, had answered a series of such questions from the gossip columnist Rona Barrett when he suddenly shifted the conversation onto a very different plane. When Ms Barrett asked about his destruction of some…
Luca de Meo will join Kering as its first external chief executive, the French luxury group confirmed Monday following news reports over the weekend that the Italian executive was set to leave carmaker Renault to lead the Gucci and Saint Laurent owner. Kering, which is controlled by France’s Pinault family, will split the CEO and…
ROME — Delphine Arnault is buoyant as she explains the logic behind one of LVMH’s highest-stakes designer appointments in years: former Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson will succeed Maria Grazia Chiuri at Christian Dior, putting the women’s and men’s sides of the group’s second-biggest fashion label — and French national treasure — under a single…