The founders worth backing have either built something that lasted or have actionable takeaways on their failures.
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Andrei Grachev,
Forbes.com,
23 Sep. 2026
In the aftermath, co-founders Lela Becker and Tim Kaeding began scouting new locations, ultimately landing on Beverly Hills for their inaugural flagship.
Many billionaires, including Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, and Craft Ventures’ David Sacks, have already moved their permanent residences out of state to avoid the tax.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
The company was cofounded by Thousand Fell cofounders Stuart Ahlum and Chloe Songer, along with Gilt Groupe cofounder Phong Nguyen.
While designers have no current use for their jump-otronic robots, the sheer amount of robotics development for terrestrial and extra-planetary exploration suggests that the photoleapers are a solution that will eventually find their problem.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2026
Vintage furniture is moving into the mainstream as designers reach for antique pieces to add character, history and depth to modern rooms.
By balancing the speed of physical random number generators with the clarity of their signals, the new device principle, in theory, can achieve processing speed yielding high bit-rate with signal clarity and stochasticity.
The development will also include a new, private and Evergy-owned substation to serve the site along with 41 diesel generators in case of power failure.
The study’s co-lead authors, Sefcovic and University of Illinois undergraduate student Payton Kohlberg, were part of the museum’s 2025 cohort of Women in Science Interns.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
24 Sep. 2026
The Israeli government has firmly denied the claim, accusing the UN inquiry’s authors of being Hamas proxies.
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