by Das Tor | Mar 15, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Crypto, Finance, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Technology, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
If you’ve been keeping up with the news at all over the last couple of months, you are bound to have heard about the sensational collapse of FTX. Founded in 2019, FTX enjoyed meteoric success before collapsing in less than a week in November 2022 and declaring...
by Das Tor | Mar 15, 2023 | Alumni Network, Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Entrepreneurship, Faculty, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
The Greek figure Sisyphus cheated death a couple of times and was punished by Hades—forever pushing a rock up a hill only to have it roll down as he reached the summit—sounds a lot like my entrepreneurial history. As an entrepreneur, rolling up revenues into...
by David Lugo Robles | Feb 2, 2023 | Archives, Archives 2022-2023, Club & Campus Life, Finance, Global Affairs, Global Business Insights, Thunderbird School News, Venture Capital, Voices of Thunderbird
Having started three startups in pharmaceutical, agriculture, and herbal medicine in my home country, Zimbabwe, and realizing that there was no funding and connections big enough to grow startups to the level I expected, I started to wonder if the time was right for...