Lindsey Choo

Why Betterment CEO Sarah Levy Isn’t Afraid Of Market Volatility Since Levy took the reins in 2020, digital investing firm Betterment’s been on a buying spree, acquiring four companies over five years. Then the market crashed.

NEW: a profile on Sarah Levy, CEO at digital advisor Betterment, and how she's weathering the storm through the market’s tariff-induced swings.
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Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating Bombing Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner.

SCOOP: Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join. wrd.cm/41Yztbw

How 499-Year-Old Beretta Keeps Reinventing Itself Fourteen generations of the Beretta family sold firearms. Here’s why the head of the 15th is moving beyond, adding bullets, scopes and even clothing.

1/ The Beretta family has sold firearms for 499 years. But it became the world's largest gunmaker by not sticking to its guns, expanding into scopes, clothing and now ammo. I profiled the family's 15th generation CEO Pietro Gussalli Beretta for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...

The US Government Is Not a Startup Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

“They have, by now, so many tentacles in so many agencies that anything is possible. The only certainty is that it’s happening in secret.”

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Musk’s X Platform Has Given New Life To Alex Jones The conspiracy theorist’s engagement on X has soared under Musk’s ownership, according to a new analysis.

New: Alex Jones' engagement on X has soared under Elon Musk’s ownership, according to a new analysis.

Is it X's algorithm? Forbes identified over 150 people who have posted on X complaining about Jones appearing in their "For You" feeds since October.

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How Much Is TikTok Really Worth? TikTok is difficult to value. Keeping those complications in mind, Forbes spoke with at least nine people and came up with these different scenarios.

TikTok is difficult to value.

Keeping those complications in mind—we spoke with at least nine people for @forbes.com about why + broke down a few different scenarios ahead of the Supreme Court's potential ruling on the TikTok U.S. ban, which could happen any minute.

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Forbes has a scoop on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni scandal today.

Those “It Ends with Us” costars have gotten most of the attention in the escalating dispute, but another defendant in Lively's case—who's preparing to sue her back as soon as today—is the billionaire Steve Sarowitz.

How Jeff Bezos Saved An Estimated $1 Billion In Taxes This Year After Moving To Florida The Amazon founder sold nearly $14 billion worth of Amazon stock so far in 2024–more than any other U.S. billionaire. Here’s why he paid $1 billion less in taxes by moving to Florida.

The Amazon founder sold nearly $14 billion worth of stock so far in 2024–more than any other U.S. #billionaire. Here’s why #JeffBezos paid $1 billion less in taxes by moving to Florida.

My latest for @forbes.com:

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Elon Musk Is Now Worth More Than $400 Billion, The First Person To Cross That Mark A new $350 billion value for SpaceX helped to lift Musk’s net worth to a historic high—more than for any billionaire Forbes has ever tracked.

A new $350 billion value for @spacex.extwitter.link helped to lift #ElonMusk's net worth to a historic record high—more than for any billionaire @forbes.com has ever tracked. This is an unfathomable amount of wealth for one person to amass.

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UHC Shooter Luigi Mangione Appears To Have Been A Redditor — And He Researched Back Pain And Backpacks UHC Shooter Luigi Mangione Researched Backpacks and Asked For Advice on Back Pain On Reddit

New story from Sarah Emerson, @amyfeldman7.bsky.social, @ebakerwhite.bsky.social and I on Luigi Mangione's reddit history, which was focused on travel gear, Pokemon Go -- and spinal pain.

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What To Know About ‘Ghost Guns’—The Weapon Allegedly Used In The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting The type of firearm allegedly used by suspect Luigi Mangione is getting easier to obtain.

NEW: what to know about ghost guns, the type of weapon apparently used by suspect Luigi Mangione in the UHC CEO shooting, and why they (especially 3D printed ones) are increasingly easier to obtain - hint: AI and online tutorials
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The TikTok Ban Fight May Test The Limits Of Trump's Power On Monday morning, TikTok asked a powerful appeals court to temporarily stop a law that could ban the app in the U.S. as soon as January 19.

TikTok's filing this morning makes the argument that the courts should wait for the Trump admin to figure out what it thinks about a passed, signed law before it goes into effect.

As a legal matter, that is not how any of this is supposed to work.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Fatally Shot—Police Believe Attack Was Targeted (Updating) Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot Wednesday morning.

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was fatally shot in Manhattan early Wednesday morning outside of a company meeting at the New York Hilton Midtown, in what police reportedly believe is a targeted shooting.

1/3 Over the past 3 years, more than 70 of my colleagues have left @forbes.com. Reporters who mentored me closely—and encouraged me to pursue journalism with conviction & confidence despite a discouraging media landscape—left because management wasn’t willing to pay them what they're worth.

‘Patriotism, Ego, Access’: Why Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Attracting Young Coders And Tech CEOs Alike The incoming Trump agency for cutting government excess is seeking 100 full-time hires in the nation’s capital, sources tell Forbes, which spoke to some early applicants.

What's motivating some tech people, including startup CEOs and college coders, to apply to Elon Musk's new agency DOGE?

I spoke to a bunch of early applicants and folks around the hiring process to answer those questions (and others, like how big DOGE is supposed to be) for @forbes.com.

Elon Musk’s Money: How He Made It And Spends It Here’s a deep dive into Musk’s record breaking net worth including a detailed breakdown of all his assets from Tesla to Neuralink.

Elon Musk’s Money: How He Made It And Spends It

Elon Musk Homes In On New Government Target: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Musk wants to “delete” the agency, but Elizabeth Warren says “the CFPB is here to stay.”

Musk wrote "Delete CFPB" early Wednesday, an agency that Project 2025 has also called for the abolition of. Trump and Congressional Republicans are reportedly seeking to limit the agency's power. www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

We have IRS in there! They have not said anything specific about the agency, though WSJ has reported they intend on cutting there. They’ve also suggested they want to simplify the US tax code, which they will likely need Congress for.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Takes Aim At Federal Agencies—Here’s Where Cuts Could Be Made Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key government departments, including the Pentagon.

First post on Bluesky! We just launched our tracker on where Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's DOGE could make cuts - they've talked about the Pentagon, Planned Parenthood and the org overseeing PBS and NPR. www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...