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Jessica Mathews
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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.
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Finance
How Tiger Global, one of the biggest backers of startups over the past decade, fell to earth
By Jessica Mathews and Anne SradersSeptember 2, 2023
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Newsletters
Why Peter Thiel won’t fund any of the 2024 presidential candidates 
By Jessica MathewsAugust 30, 2023
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Finance
Exclusive: Peter Thiel explains his decision not to fund any presidential candidates in 2024
By Jessica MathewsAugust 28, 2023
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What we know so far about a mysterious Tiger Global memo that’s making its way around Wall Street
By Anne Sraders and Jessica MathewsAugust 28, 2023
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Newsletters
Inside Peter Thiel’s powerful Silicon Valley network which started with a student paper
By Jessica MathewsAugust 25, 2023
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Finance
Peter Thiel launched a student newspaper 36 years ago. It has since become one of the surest paths to success in Silicon Valley
By Jessica MathewsAugust 24, 2023
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Arm’s IPO poised to be the deal that SoftBank—and the IPO market—desperately need
By Jessica MathewsAugust 23, 2023
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Here are the leading bidders in Goldman’s sale of GreenSky
By Jessica MathewsAugust 18, 2023
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg has come under fire for the way he's treated employees.
Finance
SoftBank-backed Better, which plans to go public next week, shrunk its staff by 91% in 18 months and reported $889M in net losses last year
By Jessica MathewsAugust 17, 2023
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Newsletters
With the SEC’s sweeping new disclosure rules coming, limited partners are getting back some negotiating power
By Jessica MathewsAugust 17, 2023
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Newsletters
Raising a first-time fund? This is the worst time to do it in 10 years
By Jessica MathewsAugust 10, 2023
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Newsletters
SoftBank deprioritizes speed, goes all in on A.I. as it reports 343 of its portfolio companies have lost value
By Jessica MathewsAugust 9, 2023
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Newsletters
Former Brex duo raises $5 million for new, pre-revenue A.I. agent startup meant to help fintech teams scale
By Jessica MathewsAugust 8, 2023
Five months ago Crunchbase vowed to try and avoid layoffs. Since then A.I. has changed everything
Newsletters
Five months ago Crunchbase vowed to try and avoid layoffs. Since then A.I. has changed everything
By Jessica MathewsAugust 4, 2023
Sequoia fund cutbacks underscore new realities of venture capital market
Newsletters
Sequoia fund cutbacks underscore new realities of venture capital market
By Jessica MathewsJuly 31, 2023
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