Elizabeth MacBride

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.