Topline Elon Musk’s net worth is valued at $726.3 billion as trading closed Wednesday, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, ending a record-breaking year for the Tesla CEO, whose fortune has surpassed numerous milestones while becoming more valuable than some of the world’s largest economies and companies. Key Facts Musk’s net worth dropped $3.3 billion
Image Credits:Getty Images 7:00 AM PST · January 1, 2026 Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash…
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Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees. Despite this data, the appeal of a dropout founder persists, though VC enthusiasm for the ‘un-degreed’ is far from constant. It is a phenomenon that…
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The tech industry moves so fast that it’s hard to keep up with just how much has happened this year. We’ve watched as the tech elite enmeshed themselves in the U.S. government, AI companies sparred for dominance, and futuristic tech like smart glasses and robotaxis became a bit more tangible outside of the San Francisco…
Here is the full list of the consumer/edtech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition…
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