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Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500 Billion

Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk's fortune just crossed the $500 billion mark per @forbes.com . $500 billion. Mind boggling

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Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire.

Senators urge investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving after train crossing incidents

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 8d

this flaw is scary www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

The letter comes after NBC News reviewed dozens of driver complaints alleging Tesla’s software mishandled train crossings.

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 14d

Price cut! www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

Trump Gold Card Visa Officially On Sale For $1 Million—A Drastic 80% Cut

The Trump Gold Card Visa officially launched Friday for $1 million—80% less than the previously touted $5 million price tag—a sign that demand was far lower than the Trump administration previously cl...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Raised $389 Million—Including $13.1 Million From This Texas Foundation

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 16d

New: "Turning Point USA Raised $389 Million Under Charlie Kirk—Including $13.1 Million From A Texas Foundation Overlooked Until Now"

me, for @forbes.com

IRS filings show the Wayne Duddlesten Foundation was Turning Point USA’s largest direct donor, surpassing contributions from foundations linked to billionaires like Bernie Marcus, Charles Johnson and ...

Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 14d

How is canceling this helpful at all? What is the administration thinking?

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The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

She’s 29, the World’s Most Famous Bagpiper, and Her Secret Is ‘Free Bird’

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 15d

how fun www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Ally Crowley-Duncan’s goal since she was 16 was to make the ancient instrument relevant. Fans say she’s succeeded.

Bizarre AI Generated Anti-Trump Videos Are Getting Billions Of Views On YouTube

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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 21d

Friends, let me introduce you to a new, truly wild genre of YouTube vids

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Violent slapstick videos that glamorize dictators and dunk on Trump have become some of the most watched political content on YouTube in 2025.

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · 20d

The AI Billionaire you've never heard of-partly because he's never given an interview before. @forbes.com reporter @pheebini.bsky.social has the goods on this influential but little-known entrepreneur, who previously worked at Google and Twitter.

Phoebe Liu @pheebini.bsky.social · 21d

1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture.

Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI:

www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...

An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

Larry Ellison Is Spending Billions to Reshape Oxford and His Own Legacy

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Larry Ellison is making waves--and spending $1.3 billion--in Oxford, England, per the @wsj.com

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The Oracle founder is spending big around the U.K.‘s 900-year-old university campus and even bought a famous local pub.

Meet The New Billionaire Owners Of The Indianapolis Colts

Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Colts owner Jim Irsay died earlier this year. Here are the NFL team's new owners, per @forbes.com @justbirny.bsky.social

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Jim Irsay’s daughters have inherited an NFL team that has been in their family for 53 years and is now worth $5.9 billion—making them among the richest female owners in sports.

Tesla Board Proposes $1 Trillion Pay Package For Musk If Ambitious Goals Are Met

Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come on Tesla board members, no CEO needs a $1 trillion pay package. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

To receive the maximum compensation, Musk would be required to boost Tesla’s market cap from $1 trillion today to $8.5 trillion in the next 10 years.

South Korea Raises Concern After U.S. Immigration Raid At Hyundai EV Battery Plant In Georgia

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Sep 5

How to drive away foreign investment in the U.S.:
www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

U.S. immigration authorities detained around 450 people from a Hyundai EV battery plant in Georgia, including more than 300 South Korean nationals.

Outsiders Love Mocking Marin County. Now, It’s Laughing at Itself.

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 30

so worth a read! :)

Shawn Hubler @shawnhubler.bsky.social · Aug 30

This weekend’s completely hilarious must-read from the great Heather Knight. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 26

for anyone not on instagram, it's official
www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Taylor Swift Announces Engagement To Travis Kelce

Swift and Kelce’s highly publicized relationship began about two years ago during the 2023 NFL season.

The company was ordered to pay $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages by a Miami jury.

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The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 26

Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount

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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · Aug 26

Intel has been touting partnerships with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms as Trump announces that the USG is taking a stake in the company:

www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

Intel Worked With Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Enabling Human Rights Abuses

As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.

David Geffen Left Hollywood a King. Now a Messy Divorce Might Ruin Everything.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 26

“.. Today it’s Intel, tomorrow it could be any industry a future Commerce Secretary decides to control,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said in a statement Thursday. “Socialism is literally government control of the means of production.”

@politico.com $LMT
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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 26

Read this close look at #billionaire David Geffen and his divorce battle with a guy 5 decades his junior by the @wsj.com and you just wonder what on earth Geffen was thinking... www.wsj.com/style/david-...

The entertainment legend wanted to spend retirement donating his $9 billion and sailing on his yacht. Instead he’s starting his 80s in an explosive battle with an ex who is a half-century his junior.

A Billionaire, a Psychic and a Bad Investment: The Friendship Breakup From Hell

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 24

What a saga from the @wsj.com : a billionaire heiress from Canada, her less wealthy friend--and crypto investments gone bad. Now a lawsuit. www.wsj.com/articles/tay...

For over a decade, Taylor Thomson and Ashley Richardson were inseparable. A fight over money destroyed it all.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family.

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Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 22

just terrible. this guy worked to help the U.S. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

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Waymo Begins NYC Tests—Cars Spotted In Manhattan

Kerry Dolan @kerrydolan.bsky.social · Aug 21

Get ready NYC for cars with spinning whirring devices atop them--and eventually no drivers in them. www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...

New York state law still requires autonomous vehicles to have a human behind the wheel.