Giacomo Tognini
Deputy editor, wealth @Forbes.com covering billionaires and the world’s richest people. Forbes Union.
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social and UC Berkeley alum. Tips: gtognini@forbes.com / giacomo.na.tognini@proton.me
- 1/3. @giacomotognini.bsky.social and I have uncovered two new billionaire clients of Epstein’s in the latest batch of files: real estate mogul Mortimer Zuckerman and Ariane de Rothschild, heir by marriage to the Rothschild banking fortune.
- NEW: We profiled Sam Altman for the cover of Forbes Magazine. For the story, we talked to Bob Iger, Masa Son, Satya Nadella, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham and more. Graham’s take was resonant: “He’s good at getting people to do what he wants.” w/ Anna Tong www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
- The DOJ’s new Epstein files release shows that billionaire Gordon Getty both had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly brushed off his crimes: “well, we ALL have similar kinds of problems.” Read more in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
- 🚨 NEW 🚨 The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
- Trump's new FTC pick has advocated for "country of origin" disclosure rules for over a year, so we have a good idea of what he'd push for if confirmed. David MacNeil would be the 12th known billionaire/billionaire's spouse in Trump's admin. My profile for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
- Your medical data is more vulnerable than you might think. A new lawsuit from healthcare software giant Epic is shining a light on systemic issues with how patient records are transferred between providers. My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
- NEW: @forbes.com has learned that hedge fund billionaire/Trump backer Paul Singer isn't the only tycoon who will profit from the forced $5.9b sale of Citgo from Venezuela. At least three other Wall St billionaires, and a host of hedge fund vultures, will also make small fortunes. Read more👇
- Lovable just raised at a $6.6 billion valuation. That makes it's 26-year-old cofounder, Fabian Hedin, one of Europe's youngest ever self-made billionaires (another Swedish AI whiz holds the lead) www.forbes.com/sites/alicia...
- After her most recent grant announcement on Tuesday, MacKenzie Scott is now America's third-most-generous philanthropist by dollar amount, and second by percentage of wealth. More insights and context in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
- Forbes raised questions about the massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm #Napster announced as a done deal in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday. With @iainmartin.bsky.social for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
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- Have you been using #Sora? Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power its AI slop factory. There are also potential silver linings (more training data + future tax savings). My latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
- New: With Mercor’s new fundraise and $10 billion valuation, its founders become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires at age 22, younger than Mark Zuckerberg was when he hit that status at age 23 two decades ago. www.forbes.com/sites/richar...
- Luca Ferrari bought his first app back in 2014 for just $10,000 with the hope that his Milan-based startup could turn it around. A decade later, Ferrari has become one of tech’s biggest dealmakers, and a new billionaire, after a new funding round valued his startup at more than $11 billion.
- Thanks to his $130 million donation to pay troops during the gov shutdown, Mellon has likely given away a bigger % of his fortune than any person ever: more than half. A breakdown of his giving and how he made his millions—not just from inheritance!—for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
- New details about Deel's latest fundraise, its legal + private market battle with Rippling and what's next in my story with Matt Durot for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu...
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- My latest @forbes.com daily cover profiles startup Leo Cancer Care, which is transforming cancer radiation treatment with a simple idea: having patients sit up instead of lying down. Now hospitals are buying dozens of its chairs. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
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- Just published: "Why No One Really Knows How Much Money The Trumps Are Making Right Now" www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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- Revolut Billionaire CEO Is The Latest Ultra-Wealthy Founder To Leave London After Tax Change www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just bet $500 million that a tiny data center startup can become a British rival to Coreweave. www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
- A series of bold bets and calculated risks helped Michael Intrator turn @CoreWeave from a no-name crypto miner into a $50 billion company, serving compute to the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft. Elated to share my latest @forbes.com cover story with @pheebini.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
- New @forbes.com magazine cover story—from @rashis.bsky.social and me—is our take on #CoreWeave, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the #AI boom. It's a fascinating firm built on bold bets, complex risk & no shortage of luck. Would love to hear what you think: www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
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- 1/ My latest for @forbes.com is a profile of a founder who holds outsized influence in the race to improve AI models and hates Silicon Valley culture. Edwin Chen on aliens and Eminem but also bootstrapping Surge AI, why he'd never go public and the future of AI: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
- Our fearless colleagues were outside the @forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.
- Jared Kushner has cofounded an AI startup, Brain Co, with VC Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to help corporates and government deploy AI www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
- In honor of the #Forbes400, the Forbes Union is sharing some numbers of our own. @forbes.com has dragged its capitalist feet for far too long. It's time to give the newsroom a fair contract!! #union #journalismjobs
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View full threadMeanwhile, Forbes management says it will offer 1.25% annual increases -- not even keeping up with inflation.
- Let's talk about #payinequity. At @Forbes, women make five figures less, on average, than men in the same roles -- and the gap is widening!
- The listing comes as #OpenAI gears up for an astronomical employee share sale that could make many in OpenAI’s ranks rich enough to afford the mansion. Scoop for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
- 🚨 Breaking: “Eric Trump Is Now A Billionaire In His Own Right” @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social, @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com
- It's a great week for telecom billionaire Charles Ergen. His company EchoStar announced it would sell spectrum to AT&T. Its stock soared and his wealth more than doubled. But the consequences for consumers are more complicated. (1/3)
- The sale dooms the nationwide 5G mobile network he'd promised, and with it hopes of a more competitive cell service market anytime soon. It also means the end of some cutting-edge software EchoStar had been developing. (2/3)
- Read more in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/monica... (3/3)
- Lucrative endorsements and a stake in shoe brand On have made tennis legend Roger Federer just the seventh athlete in the three-comma club—and a food tech investment may serve up another payday. My story at @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/justin...
- Meta has seen a significant brain drain among its AI talent in recent years, largely due to a chaotic culture and lack of vision, ex Meta AI employees told Forbes. Even amid a hiring spree, Meta continues to lose AI researchers. With @richardnieva.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/rashis...
- Daniella Pierson appears to embody success. She’s started four companies, one with Selena Gomez. She shows off a luxurious lifestyle and celebrity friend network on social media. Forbes even called Pierson one of the richest women of color in the U.S. in 2022, pegging her net worth at $220m. (1/4)
- Figma’s stock closed at $115.50 per share, or more than triple the $33 per share IPO listing price. That pushed CEO Dylan Field’s fortune up to an estimated $6.4 billion and his cofounder Evan Wallace’s to $3.1 billion www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
- For all the speculation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Trump and others, there's actually a lot we know about how Epstein got so rich: Two billionaire patrons and a tax gimmick. @giacomotognini.bsky.social & I break down the numbers on @forbes.com 👇 www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...
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- @forbesunion.bsky.social: More temp workers being used at @forbes.com: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/f...
- AI search tool OpenEvidence is already used by 40% of doctors in the U.S. Now it's raised $210 million from GV and Kleiner Perkins at a $3.5 billion. That investment makes CEO Daniel Nadler a billionaire by Forbes estimates. With @amyfeldman7.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...
- 1/ Billionaire Steve Sarowitz’s Wayfarer Foundation had been financing 200+ nonprofits with around $100 million until its sudden shutdown in early May. The closure occurred amid his high-profile legal battle with actress Blake Lively, who’s sued him and his partner Justin Baldoni.
- More Bezos news: while he was in Venice getting married, he sold hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of Amazon stock. details from @forbes.com Martina Castellanos www.forbes.com/sites/martin...
