Stephen Pastis

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |David Axe |Stephen Pastis |Iain Martin

David Carbon went from fixing washing machines in Melbourne to building Amazon's global drone fleet. Now he's eyeing Australian skies. David Carbon, the Australian leading Amazon's ambitious drone delivery program, wants to see its autonomous aircraft flying across his home country - preferably before he retires. But when asked for a timeline on that, or perhaps his age, Carbon sidesteps like a drone dodging a Hills Hoist. "Not immediately, but not in the too distant future ...

1 week ago | forbes.es | Stephen Pastis

La larga congelación de las ofertas públicas iniciales y las fusiones parece estar descongelándose y, en un rincón del mercado de las startups, las operaciones están al rojo vivo. En 2025, un pequeño grupo de megaempresas como SpaceX, OpenAI y Stripe han alcanzado valoraciones extraordinarias, poco habituales en empresas privadas. Y sus primeros patrocinadores están ahora a la cabeza de la Lista Midas, la clasificación de Forbes de los principales inversores de capital riesgo del mundo.

1 week ago | forbesargentina.com | Amura CMS |Stephen Pastis

La carrera por captar las mejores startups privadas del mundo sacude el mapa del capital de riesgo. Mientras firmas como SpaceX y OpenAI rompen récords de valuación, los inversores que apostaron antes que nadie se reparten los primeros puestos del ranking más codiciado del sector. La larga pausa en las ofertas públicas iniciales y las fusiones empieza a quedar atrás. En un rincón del mercado de startups, las operaciones vuelven a moverse con fuerza.

1 week ago | forbes.com | Stephen Pastis

The newest members of the Midas List aren’t new to venture capital. Some have been investing for decades, building portfolios thanks to expert backgrounds and friendships with the likes of Peter Thiel. The founders of Chime trudged into Amino Capital's bare-bones office early one Saturday morning in the summer of 2013, steeling themselves for disappointment. Their pitch to other investors had fallen on deaf ears, and they needed a win.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Stephen Pastis

If David AI founders Tomer Cohen and Ben Wiley had been a little less quick on their feet, they might not have made it into Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch. They agreed to create the company about a week before application submissions closed, and spent the ensuing days crashing theirs out, turning it in at midnight on the day of the deadline. After hitting submit, “I was like, did that count as late or was that on time?” Cohen recalls.