Deep Dive
E-Commerce · Automotive
A Convicted Felon’s Son Built a $75 Billion Empire From Used Cars. The Stock Went to $3. Then It Came Back.
How Carvana survived a 99% crash, two short-seller attacks, and an SEC investigation to deliver the greatest stock comeback in Wall Street history.
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EdTech · Consumer
A Guatemalan Kid Invented the CAPTCHA, Sold It to Google, and Used the Money to Give Free Education to 575 Million People.
Luis von Ahn turned 500,000 hours of wasted human effort into a book-digitizing army, then built the world’s most addictive learning app. Now a psychotic green owl is all that stands between Duolingo and AI obsolescence.