Palantir
Peter Thiel's $430B secret spy company
· 48 seconds
Money
Stories about company growth, revenue and acquisitions. Video summaries reflect the original story, not current financial advice.
Larry Ellison & Oracle
The 81-year-old who passed Musk for a day
· 47 seconds
Elon Musk & xAI
A $230B AI company in 2 years
· 48 seconds
Sam Altman, Jony Ive & io
Altman paid $6.5B for a company with no product
· 41 seconds
The Winklevoss twins & Gemini
Zuck paid them $65M - they made billions
· 45 seconds
Adam Neumann & Flow
He lost $47B - then got a $350M check
· 48 seconds
Palmer Luckey & Anduril
Fired at 24, he built a $60B weapons empire
· 44 seconds
Liang Wenfeng & DeepSeek
A side project wiped $589B off Nvidia in a day
· 58 seconds
Tope Awotona & Calendly
He drained his savings on an app everyone ignored
· 33 seconds
Ben Chestnut & Mailchimp
Never raised a dime of VC - sold for $12B
· 36 seconds
Sahil Lavingia & Gumroad
He wrote about failing. Creators have now earned $1B+
· 37 seconds
Sara Blakely & Spanx
$5,000 and a pair of cut-up pantyhose
· 58 seconds
Jack Ma & Alibaba
Rejected from 30 jobs, even KFC - then a $200B company
· 59 seconds
The Collison brothers & Stripe
Two teens from an Irish village built a $90B company
· 52 seconds
Jan Koum & WhatsApp
He was on food stamps. Facebook bought his app for $19B
· 57 seconds
Brian Chesky & Airbnb
They sold cereal to survive. Now Airbnb is worth $100B
· 51 seconds
Scale AI
The data engine behind the AI boom
· 65 seconds
Jensen Huang
From a Denny's busboy to a $5T empire
· 75 seconds