Deputy Editor, @forbes Wealth Team. Columbia Journalism School ‘21. Former financial statement auditor for Deloitte. Miami (OH) alum. Chicago native.
Joined January 2020
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Couple @SpaceX stories from a couple crazy days that made @elonmusk the world's first trillionaire. @Forbes. (1/2)
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@elonmusk wasn't the only big winner of @SpaceX's IPO. Here are some of the other billionaires whose fortunes got a big boost:
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My latest for @Forbes is a profile of the grandfather of analytics, SAS' billionaire cofounder Jim Goodnight. He had choice words about the large AI labs, talked about his Hadrosaurus egg from 69 million years ago and discussed his succession plan. (My statistics degree is very happy right now...)
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My latest investigation for @Forbes charts the rise of MAGA megadonor Robert Low, owner of Kentucky Derby favorite Renegade, who built a $5 billion trucking fortune after stabbing his friend with a hunting knife and getting off on a temporary insanity plea (too many cough drops).👇
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How Jeffrey Epstein Helped His Publicist Masha Bucher Become A Big-Time Venture Capitalist forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/…
Scoop from @mhunterhart for @Forbes:
Melinda French Gates' foundations got another $2 billion from her ex-husband Bill Gates.
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Medical supplies giant Medline went public today in this year's biggest IPO. @DurotMatthew and I dug into public filings for @Forbes and found that 5 members of the Mills family-who founded Medline in 1966 and sold a majority in 2021-are now billionaires.
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New from @giacomotognini and me @Forbes
Meet The 5 New Billionaires Behind Medline’s Blockbuster IPO
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.@ericzelikman & 7th Googler @gharik are raising $1b for an AI lab called Humans&. I'm told Eric's paper STaR was an inspiration for OpenAI's reasoning models, and that he was also one of the star AI researchers labs fought over. forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
NEW @Forbes from @EmilyinGville...
A 77-year-old venture capitalist and longtime board member just became Nvidia's sixth billionaire, as the company became the first to hit a $5 trillion market cap.
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NEW from me for @Forbes: They're putting in MILLIONS. Behold, a comprehensive look at every billionaire wading in big-time trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor.
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3/ And @Z_Everson and my deeper dive into Mellon's life here, where we talked to his former employees and dug into why he went from being a LBJ-backing liberal to one of Trump's biggest backers:
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AI agents startup @genspark_ai is in talks to raise over $200 million at a 1 billion+ valuation. Investors include LG tech ventures and SBI investment, sources tell @Forbes. Last month, Genspark said it reached a $50 million run rate 5 months after launch. forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
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I've joined @Forbes!! I'll be covering AI for their website / magazine, and assisting with lists like AI 50.
I'm excited tell deeper stories about the people behind the AI revolution. If you are a founder or investor in AI or robotics I'd love to hear from you =)
New from me @Forbes
Two Cofounders Of Astera Labs Just Became The AI Infrastructure Boom’s Latest New Billionaires
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Breaking: @elonmusk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion.
Musk is now half-way to becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
Story by @DurotMatthew
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Despite reports to the contrary, @Forbes still ranks @elonmusk as the richest person in the world. But @larryellison is nearly $100B richer this AM and nipping at Musk's heels. It's not just Oracle's soaring stock Ellison has to thank reports @_pheebini:
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