Inflation fears, broken supply chains and conflict in Ukraine have tech valuations tightening and IPOs on hold. But given their recent records, that won’t slow down these investors on the 21st annual Midas List of the world’s leading venture capitalists for long #ForbesMidas
The #ForbesMidas List is the definitive ranking of the top 100 tech investors. At number one for the first time is Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon, the two-time entrepreneur turned crypto investment king
That company and other public offerings, such as those for Coupang and HashiCorp, and soaring valuations for companies like Airtable, Databricks and Nubank help propel 15 newcomers onto this year’s #ForbesMidas list
To qualify, investors are ranked by their portfolio companies that have gone public or been acquired for at least $200 million over the past five years, or that have at least doubled their private valuation since initial investment to $400 million or more over the same period
Our 10th anniversary #ForbesUnder30 class is set to define the next decade — and beyond
We published the first edition of the #ForbesUnder30 a decade ago, with one clear goal: to identify the new guard, the young innovators, trailblazers and disruptors remaking our world
Ten years. 100,000 nominees. 6,000 revolutionaries across 20 industries. Within this all-time #ForbesUnder30 list: a Nobel laureate, six social media bigwigs, two crypto kings, two EV evangelists and the top-earning female athlete ever
Miley Cyrus rose to fame as a teen thanks to her starring role in Disney's popular TV series Hannah Montana. She was on the #ForbesUnder30 list in 2014 and is now on the Hall of Fame. "If I know there's going to be a greater reward by taking a greater risk, usually I'll do it."
When Spotify arrived in the U.S. in 2011, streaming was a $600 million business, accounting for 4% of the recording industry’s annual global revenue on.forbes.com/6010Jm2re
In 2020, streaming services delivered $13.4 billion in sales, representing 62% of industry revenue. Last year, Spotify paid out $5 billion to rights holders, mostly the big labels, which passed along an estimated $500 million of that to recording artists
“Let’s be real,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says. “I had no idea Spotify’s cultural and monetary impact would ever be this big.”
Public universities can deliver the most outstanding education to the broadest range of students at the most affordable price. That’s the message of Forbes’ 2021 ranking of top colleges forbes.com/sites/christia…
For the first time ever on a national ranking of America’s best colleges, a public school, is in the No. 1 spot
The fortunes of the nation’s richest self-made women soared 31% in our seventh annual ranking to $118 billion, amid a stock market boom on.forbes.com/6019ycRZS#SelfMadeWomen
A record 26 are now billionaires, including pop star mogul Rihanna and 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki #SelfMadeWomen
When Robyn Fenty, known to the world as Rihanna, launched Fenty Beauty in 2017, she sought to create a cosmetics company that made “women everywhere (feel) included.” #SelfMadeWomen
A perhaps unintended consequence: The beauty line has helped her enter one of the world’s most exclusive ranks: Billionaire #SelfMadeWomen