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Jessica Mathews is a former senior writer for Fortune, where she covered transportation, defense tech, and Elon Musk’s companies. Previously, she wrote the daily dealmaking newsletter Term Sheet, where she won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before joining Fortune, she covered wealth management and custody as a reporter at Financial Planning magazine. Jessica was a 2018 Dow Jones News Fund intern, and she interned at CNBC in 2017. She is a graduate from The King’s College in New York City. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., you can now find her biking around Bentonville, Ark.
Exclusive: Databricks is expanding the scope of its AI investments with second VC fund
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Exclusive: Databricks is expanding the scope of its AI investments with second VC fund
By Jessica Mathews and Allie GarfinkleMay 21, 2024
Photo illustration of Cruise co-founder Kyle Vogt, GM CEO Mary Barra, and a cruise car.
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In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet
By Jessica MathewsMay 16, 2024
GM-owned Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with pedestrian who was dragged by robo taxi 
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GM-owned Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with pedestrian who was dragged by robo taxi 
By Jessica MathewsMay 14, 2024
Melinda French Gates is resigning from the $63 billion Gates Foundation to focus on ‘the next chapter’ of her philanthropy
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Melinda French Gates is resigning from the $63 billion Gates Foundation to focus on ‘the next chapter’ of her philanthropy
By Jessica MathewsMay 13, 2024
Inside two ‘PayPal Mafia’ members’ plans to turn PayPal’s meteoric rise and internal drama into a Hollywood movie 
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Inside two ‘PayPal Mafia’ members’ plans to turn PayPal’s meteoric rise and internal drama into a Hollywood movie 
By Jessica MathewsMay 10, 2024
Many U.S. state pensions have funds tangled up in ByteDance. It’s impossible to know how much
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Many U.S. state pensions have funds tangled up in ByteDance. It’s impossible to know how much
By Jessica MathewsMay 9, 2024
Carta CEO Henry Ward.
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Top Carta exec David Kim has left the company a few months after the startup quit the secondary share business
By Jessica MathewsMay 2, 2024
Here’s more details about the access ByteDance had to U.S. TikTok user data
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Here’s more details about the access ByteDance had to U.S. TikTok user data
By Jessica MathewsApril 30, 2024
Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service
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Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service
By Jessica MathewsApril 12, 2024
AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs–backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue
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AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs–backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue
By Jessica MathewsApril 9, 2024
General Motors has sliced Cruise’s budget by $1B, but says it may bring on new Cruise investors when it starts rolling robo-taxis back on the streets
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General Motors has sliced Cruise’s budget by $1B, but says it may bring on new Cruise investors when it starts rolling robo-taxis back on the streets
By Jessica MathewsMarch 28, 2024
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months
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Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months
By Jessica Mathews and Allie GarfinkleMarch 27, 2024
Executive assistant Carrie Sun spent years making her hedge fund boss’ work life run smoothly. Now she’s telling all
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Executive assistant Carrie Sun spent years making her hedge fund boss’ work life run smoothly. Now she’s telling all
By Jessica MathewsMarch 25, 2024
A former hedge fund executive assistant tells all 
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A former hedge fund executive assistant tells all 
By Jessica MathewsMarch 23, 2024
The CEO of the Las Vegas agency behind Boring Company’s first tunnel system says his team will be ‘more involved’ after safety incidents
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The CEO of the Las Vegas agency behind Boring Company’s first tunnel system says his team will be ‘more involved’ after safety incidents
By Jessica MathewsMarch 12, 2024
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