President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced via a social media post a planned 90-day pause in his aggressive tariff plan against some countries, sending ripples through the business community. The market, which had plummeted following news of the president’s trade strategy, surged in response to the planned pause, while industry leaders from across the political…
The Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post once vowed to follow the example of publisher Katherine Graham. He changed his mind after Trump’s election. Tech execs attend Trump’s inauguration Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and other top tech executives attended Trump’s presidential inauguration. If you were a multi-billionaire – or even just…
Mark Cuban warned the federal government’s abrupt and deep cuts are having spillover effects across the economy, eventually leading to a downturn. The latest jobs report showed solid gains, but it pointed to early effects of DOGE cuts and didn’t capture the wave of layoffs that have come more recently. Meanwhile, Wall Street is pricing…
I predict that Donald Trump is going to end up being very costly to Elon Musk’s tech empire. Until quite recently, investors were all in on the Trump-Musk bromance. Bloomberg calculated that the value of Musk’s companies had risen by $613 billion between early November 2024 and mid-February 2025, assuming anticipated funding rounds went as…
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — At an annual gathering of conservative activists, the signature red “ Make America Great Again ” hats popularized by President Donald Trump were interspersed with a noticeable number of the black “Dark MAGA” hats made popular by Elon Musk. It was just one sign of Musk’s emerging influence and how…
‘Not A Lot Of People Are Going To Stand Up To Him. I Don’t Care,’ Says Billionaire Mark Cuban On Why He’s Not Afraid To Call Out Elon Musk Mark Cuban isn’t afraid to call out Elon Musk, and he’s made that explicit time and time again. While many hesitate to challenge the billionaire and…
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn’t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms, like Uber and Lyft. “Once…
The average person’s first job usually involves flipping burgers, delivering newspapers or working retail. The first jobs for many of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs fall into one of those categories, too. Others, however, were able to make some serious money from the jump. These entrepreneurs were teenage wunderkinds who worked as programmers or started…
You have likely heard this billionaire’s name, but who is Mark Cuban and how did he make his money? It’s possible you know him as one of the sharks on the hit show “Shark Tank,” but Cuban is more than just a TV personality — he’s also the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a…
The jaw-dropping Luka Doncic trade cemented the reality, if it wasn’t already clear, that Mark Cuban has no influence on the Mavericks’ basketball operations. The former majority owner of the franchise, who still has a minority stake after selling 73 percent to the Adelson family, “urged” Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison to not trade the…