A recent BlackRock job posting hints at how it's looking to innovate around its crown jewel Aladdin tech platform — and shows it wants to be more than an asset manager

Dan DeFrancesco | Aladdin was opened up for use by wealth managers such as UBS, Morgan Stanley, and HSBC, over the past two years.

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Goldman Sachs quietly unloaded some of its WeWork shares while its investment bankers were pitching the company a $60 billion-plus IPO

Dakin Campbell | Goldman was reducing its own WeWork exposure even as its investment bankers were touting their services to the company.

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Elite law firm Irell & Manella — where partners make more than $3 million a year — is seeing turbulence and departures after merger talks with a rival firm fell apart

Casey Sullivan | Irell's swashbuckling leader, Morgan Chu, is considered one of the most prolific trial lawyers. Its clients include United Talent Agency, Warner Brothers, and Uber.

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Here’s the pitch deck that Y Combinator-alum and coffee-ordering app Cloosiv used to nab $1 million to take on Starbucks and Dunkin’

Shannen Balogh,Dakin Campbell | Cloosiv works with small shops that want their own ordering apps. Big chains like Starbucks and Dunkin' already have mobile ordering.

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Here's the investor deck that Jim Heckman is using to explain how he'll grow Sports Illustrated

Lucia Moses | Maven is targeting $160 million in revenue in 2020, and it just raised $20 million to help get there.

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Inside the 'awkward,' 'tense,' and 'heated' private meeting between Elon Musk and Texans whom SpaceX is trying to buy out to fully realize its vision to reach Mars

Dave Mosher | A man who lives in Boca Chica, Texas, said he told Musk SpaceX's buyout offer was "unconscionable" to people who hoped to retire in the secluded area.

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The top 10 slides from Netflix's groundbreaking first culture deck that experts say had the most impact

Ashley Rodriguez | Netflix's culture deck, released in 2009, sparked debate over policies like unlimited vacation and the company's obsession with high performance.

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This year's 3 winners of the economics Nobel Prize revolutionized how we think about poverty. Here's an intro to their most essential research.

Richard Feloni | Newly appointed Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer have changed the way we study and fight extreme poverty.

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Stack Overflow helps millions of developers do their jobs every single day. Its new CEO says the next stage of its growth is selling to businesses.

Rosalie Chan | Stack Overflow announced Prashanth Chandrasekar from Rackspace as its new CEO in September. Its cofounder Joel Spolsky stepped down as CEO in March.

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