Elizabeth MacBride

Senior Contributor at Forbes

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Co-author Little Book of Robo Investing, out March 12. Also @newbuildersbook @SAIS frmr @wealthfront; #journalism Bylines @atlantic @Quartz @MITTechReview @CNBC

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‘Hardship Makes You Brave’: Afghan Women In Arkansas Aim For Entrepreneurship

Jan 24, 2025 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Khalida Ahmadzai learned to make jalapeno chutney from her own mother. In her native Afghanistan, many varieties of jalapenos grow. They’re small and potent. “Yes, they are very spicy,” the new entrepreneur confirms through her son, Waheed’s, translation. With a laugh, they remember how visiting Americans underestimated the peppers because they saw older Afghans eating them raw. Now, Ahmadzai wants to introduce more people to the flavors of her country.
Performance-based incentives boost growth of women-owned businesses

Jan 14, 2025 | omfif.org | Elizabeth MacBride

Despite progress in many areas, only about one in four businesses globally is owned by a woman – a number that has remained stagnant for two decades according to gender-disaggregated data from the World Bank. This inequality is a human rights issue, an economic drag and a constraint on innovation. However, emerging evidence suggests that performance-based incentives could be part of the solution.
Newlab To Launch A Saudi Hub. First Focus: Mining Startups

Jan 13, 2025 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Newlab, a New York City-based company that helps launch and fund startups in industrial sectors, is opening a new hub this year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The hub aims to attract startups to Saudi Arabia, focusing first on the mining industry. Future programs will focus on energy, logistics and advanced manufacturing.
With 90M+ Followers, Loren Gray Has Some Social Media Insights

Jan 7, 2025 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Loren Gray is more than she seems to be. At first glance, the TikTok and Instagram influencer’s posts seem to have about as much substance as a sheer top or a mini skirt. She’s dancing, or curling her eyelashes, or showing you the backstage scenes of a Netflix gross-out high-school comedy, in which her biggest scene involved her, well, soiling herself. She’s talked about that in a few posts.
With 90M+ Followers, Loren Gray Has Some Social Media Insights

Jan 7, 2025 | l8r.it | Elizabeth MacBride

Loren Gray is more than she seems to be. At first glance, the TikTok and Instagram influencer’s posts seem to have about as much substance as a sheer top or a mini skirt. She’s dancing, or curling her eyelashes, or showing you the backstage scenes of a Netflix gross-out high-school comedy, in which her biggest scene involved her, well, soiling herself. She’s talked about that in a few posts.
Your Own Dark Shadow edited by Jack Fennell: Fascinating Irish horror stories from the 1830s to the 1940s

Dec 6, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Your Own Dark Shadow Author: edited and introduced by Jack FennellISBN-13: 978-1915290106Publisher: Tramp Press Guideline Price: €16Genre fiction is often relegated to the sidelines of “serious” literary conversation, and Jack Fennell’s curated collection of Irish horror stories is an effort to correct that. Fennell previously turned his eye on science fiction in his book A Brilliant Void, demonstrating that genre fiction is indeed worthy of serious consideration.
Washington DC Rises As A Tech Hub, Helped Along By The She-Economy

Nov 4, 2024 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

The knock against Washington DC as a tech hub has always been that it was too much of a government town: risk-averse, slow-moving, not worried enough about the bottom line. But a lot has changed in the last 15 years, since people started trying to seed the culture of technology innovation outside Silicon Valley. Washington DC got a lot richer, for one thing. Four of the 10 wealthiest counties in the country are in the DC metro area, as are the two very wealthiest – Falls Church and Loudon.
America’s New Startup Boom Emerges In Legacy Cities

Jun 13, 2024 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

The noise in the foyer of the office building in Midtown Cleveland was deafening: There were dozens, perhaps more than 100, entrepreneurs in the room at a networking event sponsored by an Ohio nonprofit, Jumpstart. I met an entrepreneur, Tino Go, scaling up on-demand kitchen cabinet manufacturing with a company called Baru. There was another founder, Shana Greathouse, with a company called Pigybak that connects homeowners with contractors and consolidates the latter’s visits.
The Future Of Entrepreneurship In India

May 6, 2024 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Ten years ago, before slow-moving collapse of the U.S. journalism profession reached the business media, more Forbes readers might have heard of Yashish Dahiya. In 2008, he co-founded an important financial services company in India. It went public in 2021 with $1 billion-plus valuation. Today, Policybazaar has 17,000 employees, and, according to its web site, 9 million customers. It sells policies and products from more than 50 insurers on its platform.
Doha Dispatch: Katherine Maher, Loren Gray, AI Apps & A Mansplainer

May 6, 2024 | forbes.com | Elizabeth MacBride

Doha, Qatar, is a crossroads of a world that we hardly see from the United States. A few months ago, I was at the Web Summit tech conference in that glittering city. About 20% of the founders attending were from the continent of Africa. About half were from the MENA region. Some 37% of the attendees were women, a sign of how many women in the world outside the United States are or aspire to be entrepreneurs. I’ve thought about the diversity quite a bit since I returned home.