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When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project,…

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Image Credits:Cluely 4:09 PM PDT · June 17, 2025 The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most legendary party that never happened,” Cluely founder and CEO Roy Lee tells TechCrunch. Cluely had hoped to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event occurring on Monday and…

The borders between Creators and showbiz are blurring. Edited by Steven Bertoni. Reporting by Zoya Hasan and Alexandra York. Photography by Cody Pickens for Forbes In 2025, creators continue to rewrite the script for the media and entertainment industries. MrBeast’s reality game show broke viewership records on Amazon. Alex Cooper, Matt Rife, and Jake Shane