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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.
Why Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell says AI agents ‘don’t work’
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Why Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell says AI agents ‘don’t work’
By Jessica MathewsDecember 12, 2024
With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis
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With General Motors pulling the plug on Cruise, every American automaker except Tesla has called it quits on robotaxis
By Jessica MathewsDecember 11, 2024
General Motors to stop funding its Cruise robotaxi business
Tech
General Motors to stop funding its Cruise robotaxi business
By Jessica MathewsDecember 10, 2024
How strength training startup Ladder plans to more than double users of its app in a year
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How strength training startup Ladder plans to more than double users of its app in a year
By Jessica MathewsDecember 10, 2024
How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House
Tech
How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House
By Jessica MathewsDecember 7, 2024
Exclusive: Fintech unicorn Stash laid off 40% of its workforce after CEO left
Tech
Exclusive: Fintech unicorn Stash laid off 40% of its workforce after CEO left
By Leo Schwartz and Jessica MathewsDecember 4, 2024
Inside Elon Musk’s plans for a private preschool in Texas, which just got a permit to open and where children will learn to sweep, draw, and explore
Tech
Inside Elon Musk’s plans for a private preschool in Texas, which just got a permit to open and where children will learn to sweep, draw, and explore
By Jessica MathewsNovember 20, 2024
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is back, revolutionizing warfare with a $14 billion startup. And this time he wants you to like him
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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is back, revolutionizing warfare with a $14 billion startup. And this time he wants you to like him
By Jessica MathewsNovember 20, 2024
Welcome to Elontown, USA: an unlikely Texas home base for Musk’s business empire
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Welcome to Elontown, USA: an unlikely Texas home base for Musk’s business empire
By Jessica MathewsNovember 18, 2024
One of Canoo's vans parked in front of a museum in Bentonville, Ark., the town where Walmart's headquarters are based.
Tech
Canoo tested its electric delivery vans for Walmart without airbags despite employees raising red flags, sources say
By Jessica MathewsNovember 12, 2024
How Elon Musk became the most powerful person in business
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How Elon Musk became the most powerful person in business
By Jessica MathewsNovember 12, 2024
Goldman Sachs-backed Simbe raises $50M in Series C funding to bolster retail robot business
Tech
Goldman Sachs-backed Simbe raises $50M in Series C funding to bolster retail robot business
By Jessica MathewsOctober 24, 2024
Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi service is already on San Francisco roads in tests for employees
Tech
Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi service is already on San Francisco roads in tests for employees
By Jessica MathewsOctober 24, 2024
GM’s Cruise has removed humans from the driver’s seat in some Houston tests—and put them in the passenger seat
Tech
GM’s Cruise has removed humans from the driver’s seat in some Houston tests—and put them in the passenger seat
By Jessica MathewsOctober 22, 2024
Traders and others work on the New York Stock Exchange floor
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Nasdaq Private Market CEO says only 25 of 1,200 unicorns are actively trading on the secondaries market
By Jessica MathewsOctober 17, 2024
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