NEW: Sam Altman has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit and Stripe made him a billionaire anyway.

Alex Konrad and I sifted through a dozen-plus filings + spoke to at least as many sources to learn about what he’s worth & how he invests:

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Pretty insane turnout for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at the company’s annual GTC conference, held for the first time at the SAP Center, where the San Jose Sharks play

This has been going on for like ten minutes

Ads for a MAGA scam were shown >185 million times on Facebook and YouTube in recent months, & were going strong until we asked the platforms for comment.

We found the guys behind the scam. Come for the MLK deepfake; stay for the credit laundering scheme.

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5/ WATCH this wild video: Tal Dilian boastfully flaunted untouchability.

Notoriety was good marketing to despot customers.

Well, the US reached out and touched him today.

Tal's life, as he knows it, will never be the same.

By Thomas Brewster
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Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed.

His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by Roher

Jeff Bezos Just Sold $2 Billion Worth Of #Amazon Shares via @forbes Phoebe Liu (she/her) forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…

quake in san francisco..still rumbling a bit

Keith Rabois is returning to Khosla Ventures after five years at Founders Fund (Alex Konrad / Forbes)

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton has company when it comes to #billionaires and ex-billionaires being sentenced to prison. Here's how his sentence stacks up, via @forbes Devin Sean Martin forbes.com/sites/devinsea…

I like to think this story has it all…… Futuristic tech utopias, Peter Thiel, an heir to the House of Medici, crypto and, of course, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.

New from Iain Martin and me:
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A profile of Curtis Priem, Nvidia's co-founder and first CTO, who holds ~200 patents, sold his Nvidia stock years ago, and has donated $275M to his alma mater (Phoebe Liu (she/her) / Forbes)

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Scoop: secretive fund Newlands has nearly $10B in tech stocks and is quietly building a startup portfolio.

Neither its ex-Sequoia leader nor billionaire bankroller, WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum, wanted to talk. But we @forbes found the filings. My latest:
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NEW: For the past several months, Iain Martin and I have been trying to find the Kingdom of Bhutan’s secret sovereign bitcoin mines.

Now, based on sources inside the country and satellite imagery from Planet and others, we can show you where they are.

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Breaking: Binance CEO CZ In Discussions To Step Down As Criminal Investigation Ends

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Last night, as a letter from Osama Bin Laden began going viral on TikTok, the hashtag #lettertoamerica had 2 million views.

Now, it has nearly 14 million views.

TikTok has denied the videos praising 9/11 are trending.

Developing story w/ Emily Baker-White: forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

Videos sharing a terrorist manifesto written by Osama Bin Laden ~20 years ago have garnered more than 11 million views in the last 12 hours on TikTok. The company claims they're not trending.

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This is so cool: Our biography of Zappos' Tony Hsieh, WONDER BOY, is named one of FT's best books of the year.

'A tragic cautionary tale of how money genuinely cannot buy happiness.'

Order your copy here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812508…

EXCLUSIVE: Crisis At Cruise: Robotaxi CEO Confirms Coming Layoffs Amid Scramble To Rebuild Public Trust (by Cyrus Farivar // @[email protected])

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Eric and Donald Trump Jr. testified Thursday in the civil fraud trial over the family's business. @DanAbrams and Dan Alexander discuss statements made by the Trump brothers in court and a small dispute over a judge's law clerk.
More: trib.al/VnaI4Q5 #DanAbramsLive