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Meet Nick Mathers: The Aussie who built an empire selling our lifestyle

Nick Mathers oversees 1700 staff across his 12 U.S. restaurants. There will be six more venues in 2024. Mathers tells Forbes Australia that his company is on track to bring in $120m this year. By 2026, it will be $200m. Then, maybe an IPO.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

New XPrize will award $101 million to innovators who can reverse aging

The new contest aims to spur innovation into longer ‘healthspans’ with treatments that can actually reverse age-related degradation in body, mind and immune system.

  • By Alex Knapp
  • Forbes Staff

Mark Cuban quits ‘Shark Tank’ after over 10 years

Cuban joined the show as a guest and eventually became a mainstay by season 3.

  • By Antonio Pequeño IV

This Nvidia cofounder could have been worth $70 billion. Instead, he lives off the grid

If Curtis Priem, Nvidia’s first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he’d be the 16th richest person in America. Instead, he sold out years ago and gave most of his fortune to his alma mater Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

  • By Phoebe Liu

Betting on botanicals: Australian DMT research scores $4.5 million

Psychae Therapeutics bagged the raise from Tin Alley Ventures and the University of Melbourne’s pre-seed investment fund.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

Who is Emmett Shear? What to know about OpenAI’s interim CEO

In a surprise decision Sunday night, OpenAI’s board of directors picked former Twitch boss Emmett Shear as the company’s interim CEO following the dramatic firing of Sam Altman on Friday.

  • By Siladitya Ray
  • Forbes Staff

Is OpenAI ‘dead to businesses building with it’? Altman ouster has customers seeking alternatives

Startups built on OpenAI’s technology are looking for new options after the boardroom coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman.

  • By Rashi Shrivastava

Aerologix raise takes Aussie drone company to new heights

The Sydney-based drone company landed $2 million in a pre-Series A raise. The funds have facilitated the acquisition of Brazilian mapping firm Mappa and the global launch of AerologixMaps.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist

A day inside a VC office taught me more about business than a lifetime in the boardroom

I flew from New York to Miami recently, invited to spend a day inside a VC office. This brief trip with Fuel Venture Capital was a masterclass in the relentless spirit that drives the top businesses to succeed.

  • By Fred Schebesta - Contributor

Block founder Jack Dorsey’s $3m pledge to Indigenous entrepreneurs

The $3 million investment into First Australians Capital was made through Block’s social impact fund. Block is the Dorsey-founded parent company of Australian fintech super unicorn Afterpay.

  • By Shivaune Field, Journalist
  • Business Journalist
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