The ultimate guide to cashing out, from founders who sold their startups to Amazon, Cisco, and Macy's for billions

Shana Lebowitz,Sherin Shibu | What's it take to sell a business successfully? We asked founders who have done it, from Jyoti Bansal to Marla Beck to Justin Kan, to share advice.

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Government investigations, fired CEOs, and a sector in turmoil: Cannabis companies are facing a hidden threat, and the honeymoon might be over

Jeremy Berke | The sector has been hit by bad news in recent weeks, including a federal agency seizing illegally grown cannabis at one of CannTrust's growing facilities, and Canopy Growth ousting its founder and longtime CEO.

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These are the programming languages that are used by America's most valuable startups, from Airbnb to WeWork

Rosalie Chan | Coding Dojo published data on the programming languages and frameworks that the top unicorns use, like WeWork, Juul, Airbnb, and SpaceX.

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Forget a recession: BlackRock's global research chief warns of an even more perilous threat to markets that's approaching for the first time in years

Akin Oyedele | Jean Boivin told Business Insider how this risk could disrupt a cushion that stock-market investors have leaned on for years.

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The Pentagon and Amazon beat back Oracle’s legal challenge to the $10 billion JEDI contract, but experts say the real winner may be Microsoft

Benjamin Pimentel | Oracle’s campaign for the $10 billion DoD JEDI project may given Microsoft an edge in the major cloud contract fight with Amazon, experts say.

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3 female AI trailblazers reveal how they beat the odds and overcame sexism to become leaders in their field

Isobel Asher Hamilton | Business Insider spoke to three female AI trailblazers at DeepMind, Facebook, and the Oxford Internet Institute to get their take on the field.

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This Google Cloud-powered AI system predicts what's happening next in a cricket match — and it's a clear sign that artificial intelligence is changing advertising

Mary Branscombe | Meet Monty, an AI-powered system that tells you when something big is about to happen in a cricket match by using data it gathered from previous matches.

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Microsoft chairman John Thompson explains why CEO Satya Nadella is poised to win the cloud wars

Julie Bort | Microsoft had to overhaul its culture to win at cloud and become a $1 trillion company, including downgrading the importance of Windows.

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The founder of a billion-dollar startup says that this book on Steve Jobs’ presentation secrets taught him how to nail a pitch

Sherin Shibu,Shana Lebowitz | “Figuring out how to clearly, cleanly, simply, and concisely articulate what you’re trying to do may be your most important job.”

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