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I used alcohol to cope with running a multimillion-dollar startup at 21. After getting the drunkest I've ever been at a work event, I resolved to get sober.

I used alcohol to cope with running a multimillion-dollar startup at 21. After getting the drunkest I've ever been at a work event, I resolved to get sober.

The more successful Dom McGregor became, the more he turned to alcohol until his cofounder had to intervene. Now, he's been sober for five years.

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Stop leaning on your boss for authority — you're the boss now, an executive coach says. Here's how to act like one.

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A 20-year truck-driving veteran explains why the solution to the supply-chain crisis is in sight but greed is getting in the way

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Goldman Sachs says these 30 stocks with optimal pricing power will benefit most as inflation hovers at 30-year highs amid a continued supply-chain crunch

There's a risk that the supply chain crisis won't end anytime soon, Goldman Sachs said on Monday, and reveals the 30 stocks that will profit anyway.

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Alibaba posted $84.5 billion in Singles Day sales this year. That's a record high — but also its slowest growth ever.

The 8.45% increase in Singles Day sales marks the first single-digit growth since the Chinese e-commerce giant created the event in 2009.

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The Blackstone Group has poured $50 million into Ample, the battery swapping startup that could solve Uber's biggest challenge in going electric.

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Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba raked in a record $84.54 billion in sales amid a toned-down Singles' Day

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba raked in a record $84.54 billion in sales amid a toned-down Singles' Day

Alibaba's Singles' Day sales are up from $74 billion last year. It comes amid a toned down event on the back of Beijing's tech crackdown.

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A crypto investor who bought ethereum when it was only 50 cents explains why and how he got into NFTs in 2017. He also shows us the exact steps for retail investors to get started in the red-hot space — and explains how to pick projects that could pay out 10 times.
George Davis didn't change his investing approach when COVID crashed the market, and now 2 of his stock funds are among the best in the world. Here are 3 things his firm did to set up one of its best years ever.
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Snowflake-backed unicorn startup Lacework just made its first-ever acquisition in a big bet on making security easier for software developers

Billion-dollar startup Lacework is making its first acquisition ever in the form of Soluble, which helps developers secure their code as it's written.

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