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Loans Could Burn Start-Up Workers in Downturn

SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Bolt Financial, a payments start-up, began a new program for its employees. They owned stock options in the company, some worth millions of dollars on […]




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Start-Up Equity Is a Great Retirement Plan, if You Can Pull It Off

Nearly two years ago, Trevor Ford left a job at Lending Tree that gave him a 401(k) plan and a generous employer match to work at Yotta, an online banking […]




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Twitter Employees Search for Answers as Musk Deal Takes Shape

In January 2020, thousands of Twitter employees gathered in Houston for a corporate summit called #OneTeam. During the event, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive at the time, revealed he had […]




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Booming Stock Market Helps California Bounce Back from Pandemic

In the early days of the pandemic, no one would have looked to the stock market for salvation. From February to late March last year, the S&P 500 suffered one […]