Cover Story
Building What Matters
Inside the mindset of visionaries shaping the future of work and capital.
By Sebastian Kern
Summer 2024 · Vol. 12
The Innovation Issue · Summer 2024
The founders building
what comes next.
A quarterly print-quality magazine of long-form reporting on the companies, capital, and ideas shaping the next decade of technology. Flip through this issue below.
Fin.
In this issue
Table of ContentsBusiness / Big Ideas
The AI Gold Rush
Tech's land grab is on. But in the race to build the future, will anyone stop to ask who it's for?
By Charlie Warzel
Field Report
Inside Stripe
The payments giant is quietly building economic infrastructure for the internet.
By Jordan Tyson
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