Garry Tan is a top seed investor. Courtesy Y Combinator founders seized the AI boom in 2025, with increasingly younger teams securing millions in seed funding. Founders launched companies ranging from...
Charles Hoskinson explains the "poisoned transaction" Cardano hack that took place back in November, and how it split the chain in two: “I don’t wanna have figure out, like, ‘How do we reimburse all t...
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis/Getty Images Pavel Durov, the founder and owner of Telegram, is worth $17 billion. The messaging platform has 1 billion users and...
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP Former SpaceX employees have launched startups with over $3 billion in venture funding. The SpaceX Mafia is backed by top venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and ...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Daters are using AI to slide into the DMs and craft Hinge profiles. Three singles told Business Insider that they had used ChatGPT for pick-up lines, dating app bios, an...
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Grok makes X more truth-friendly as it often challenges users’ assumptions instead of confirming them, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin....
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iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI New social, professional networking, and dating startups are coming onto the scene. VCs and angel investors are funding some of these promising startups. Here are the pitch d...
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Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately won...
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Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson talks hash vs lattice-based cryptography, and how November's “poisoned transaction” hack could have destroyed Cardano if they were BFT-based “Ethereum is embracing...
Amid Mohamed, 17, founded Viral Cartel Inc. in 2024. Amid Mohamed Amid Mohamed is the 17-year-old founder of Viral Cartel Inc. His company creates social media campaigns for film studios using TikTok ...
Aaron Cannon cofounded an AI startup that recently raised $30 million. He also picks up his 3-year-old every day from preschool. Aaron Cannon Aaron Cannon thought up his startup, Outset, while on pate...
Nicholas Svensson, CEO of Smart Technologies Courtesy of Smart Technologies Smart Technologies CEO Nicholas Svensson calls employees worldwide to gather direct feedback. Employees have told him where ...
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
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