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Tatcha, a $500 million skincare company, has origins that can be traced to Starbucks. As different as both lines of business are, the founder’s experience in the coffee-making behemoth, prepared her for the future. This was a future founder Vicky Tsai, who quite easily scaled, thanks to hands-on experience with Starbucks.Tatcha – Starbucks OriginsTsai’s yearning for business success was a key ingredient in her decision to attend the Harvard Business School. Leaving for Shanghai almost...

Recently, the new fintech terms came to town. We are already used to certain terms such as FAANG, FANG and even FAAMNG. When it comes to stocks, and especially technology-related ones, the times are certainly “a-changing”.2020 began already as a pretty turbulent one. With great geopolitical tensions, an unsure trade deal between the U.S. and China, Donald Trump’s impeachment (moreover, Meghan and Harry are leaving the Crown) – it seems that there is going to be a pretty tough year for big...

Management consulting and research firm Everest Group has released a new market report focusing on the future of blockchain. The report, entitled “BigTech Battle: Assessing Managed Blockchain Platform Readiness for Enterprise Use,” addresses a number of major players developing blockchain projects, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Microsoft.The report cites Jelurida’s Ardor blockchain-as-a-service platform, alongside Multichain’s Enterprise, as two technologies with favorable ease of...

2020 could quite easily be a great year for FAAMNG stocks if things continue the way they currently are. FAAMNG comprises Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Netflix (NFLX), and Google’s parent company Alphabet (GOOG and GOOGL). These are the biggest tech and internet stocks in the world.FAAMNG Stocks in 2020A publication from The Arora Report shows the current money flow into these companies via their stocks. Dividing each stock into several data points, the table...

Recently, there appeared reports stating that American food delivery giant Grubhub is in talks with Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Ahold-Delhaize. Some have rumored that the companies may acquire the leading food ordering and delivery company. The discussions around the news became even hotter after the comments of Brittain Ladd, ex-Amazon executive, and supply-chain consultant.Ladd said:“I have spoken with executives from each company (especially Walmart) and there is interest in acquiring...

Walmart’s new shopping platform might be the next big thing. America’s largest retailer has been testing a new shopping platform. The platform referred to as Alphabot has begun trial testing at a supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire. The aim of Alphabot is simple. Grocery shopping can be a chore for many. Automation of the process saves time. Customers’ needs may vary. And Alphabot is a system to automate all customer’s needs. Human interaction is necessary only at the end of the selection...

Airbnb, DoorDash, and GitLab are among 18 unicorn companies that are set to run an initial public offering (IPO) sometime in 2020. The expectation for a more definite announcement at some point this year, already means that there is more than enough to anticipate in the financial clime. While there will most likely still be more public announcements, these 18 are already making the rounds.The market for initial public offerings in 2019 was a little disappointing, to say the least. Compared to...

This year was pretty good for one of the most famous world’s billionaires. However, the whole decade seems to finish even better. Take Warren Buffett for example. He is ending the year with a net worth of approximately $89 billion, up around $42 billion since 2010 and making him the seventh-biggest billionaire gainer of the past 10 years. Let it also be known that the Oracle of Omaha never sold any Berkshire Hathaway, and about 98% of his fortune is made up only of the company’s shares.But,...

As far as the S&P 500 index is concerned, Amazon seems to have hit a new record this holiday season. According to a Bloomberg report, the e-commerce giant’s sale of “tens of millions” of Amazon products, cemented a “record-breaking” end of the year.Amazon S&P 500 RecordAmazon’s low-volume trading, shortly after Christmas, ensured its top spot on the S&P 500 as it jumped by 3.4%. As holiday shopping continued to increase, other stores including J.C. Penney Co., Macy’s Inc. and...

Over the last decade, specifically after the 2008 global economic recession, chipmakers have emerged as the best performing industry across sectors and regions. The latest industry report shows that the chipmaking industry witnessed a 377% growth in the last 10 years. This is double the growth of the S&P 500 during the same period.This shows that the semiconductor industry remains at the core of this rapidly changing technology. Despite new technologies like AI, blockchain, ML, and others...