Lindsey Choo
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Reporter | @platformer @Forbes @wsj @fastcompany etc. | Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at lindseychoo.26
Joined January 2022
NEW from me: Today's daily cover about billionaire Walter Wang (who's also a magazine cover!), a newcomer on our flagship Forbes 400 list. If you've ever wondered who's behind the water or electricity you use, give it a read!
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Walter Wang borrowed money to buy a plastic pipe maker from his dad, a legendary Taiwanese billionaire. He has since grown the U.S.-based business sevenfold.
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NEWS: Aubrey Preston, the son of Tennessee nursing home mogul Forrest Preston, has won a petition to gain temporary control over his father’s $3 billion (revenue) nursing home empire. https://t.co/sDJAyN4LvU
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Aubrey Preston, the son of Tennessee nursing home mogul Forrest Preston, has won a petition to gain temporary control over his father’s $3 billion (revenue) nursing home empire, which he argues his...
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#Trump’s win has been good for $PLTR shareholders, especially its two new billionaire cofounders. Read my latest for @Forbes—on who is profiting from a key public-private partnership and why @PalantirTech's perceived market value has increased so much: https://t.co/sEHUd21h2M
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Trump’s win has been good for Palantir shareholders. Especially these two new billionaires.
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An above-board but "naive" program that jumpstarted some of cyber's top unicorns. An "unfair advantage" that damaged the ecosystem. VC firm Cyberstarts' adviser network, Sunrise, has been called both. ICYMI, our @forbes deep dive into its controversies: https://t.co/nTThWJFASh
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Gili Raanan’s VC firm Cyberstarts perfected the playbook for launching multi-billion-dollar security startups like Wiz. But questions about a profit-sharing program with industry execs have threate...
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New from me @Forbes: Melinda French Gates just got another $1.2 billion from her ex-husband Bill Gates. https://t.co/1KpPHfTS40
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Rob Walton is the newest member of the $100B club @Forbes
https://t.co/ERQC9k3Fnj
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New from me for @Forbes: The richest woman in Russia left her husband in April and quietly gave away a third of her company, Wildberries, in a surprising merger in July. Now two people are dead. Here’s the inside story of what may have led to the tragedy. https://t.co/rUqIFQJMrt
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Russia's richest woman left her husband in April and then gave away a third of her company, Wildberries, in a surprising merger in July. Now two people are dead.
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NEW: The 20 Highest-Paid Showrunners, right in time for #Emmy weekend. By @MrMattCraig with additional reporting from me:
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NEW: Billionaire #Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France on Saturday, is also subject to a criminal complaint in Switzerland, @Forbes has learned. The criminal complaint was allowed to proceed in Geneva last October. Read here: https://t.co/qBIdzdGAF2
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How much should the stars of The Blair Witch Project been paid? @Forbes has estimated what they made—and how much they COULD have made, if their original contract was honored. My latest on what happened, w/interviews from the stars themselves:
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Vanta’s fundraise didn’t come out of necessity, w/runway “approaching a decade,” per @sequoia’s @andrew__reed & “some of the best numbers in #SiliconValley.” Now, @christinacaci says @TrustVanta can invest heavily into what matters while staying scrappy: https://t.co/LRjFGDXnGk
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I visited the Jersey Shore for the first time for @Forbes’ latest cover story on Peter Cancro, the owner and CEO of @jerseymikes. Are you seeing Jersey Mike’s everywhere? That’s because it suddenly is-50 years after Cancro bought his local deli at 17. https://t.co/54jfZNBDGU
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Big Boss news: Bruce Springsteen is officially a @Forbes billionaire. Here's how he went from working class to the ten figure club—and how much he's worth, in my daily cover story:
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The Boss went from E Street to Easy Street by staying true to his humble roots—and rolling up his sleeves and going to work.
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My first for Forbes, today's daily cover with @KerryDolan : how Warren Buffett's kids have quietly become some of the most powerful philanthropists, giving away at least $7.4 billion so far.
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"Billionaire NOT," Trump's biggest donor Timothy Mellon said in an email
Think four-decade railroad empire, Amelia Earhart and 6,700 acres of (union-free) Wyoming land. On top of that, Mellon insisted to me that he isn’t a billionaire, despite doling out some $300 million in political donations. For @Forbes with @z_everson: https://t.co/Jjy8H6FPUd
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Health tech firm @TempusAI went public today. Founder and CEO Eric Lefkofsky spoke with @Forbes about the IPO and the company, which is built on a massive trove of AI-trained patient and genomic data. Read my latest: https://t.co/ZrcsCh2msL
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Even though @elonmusk got the votes from @Tesla shareholders, he won't see $50B for a long time. Here's why @forbes. https://t.co/Ygf2PSSNLI
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