Our 10 most popular stories from January

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Fortune’s most popular stories of the month

From Katie Haun's plan to build a $1 billion crypto empire, to the stocks you need to buy this year, here are our top stories you might have missed from January.

Inside Neuralink, Elon Musk’s mysterious brain chip startup: A culture of blame, impossible deadlines, and a missing CEO

Neuralink's brain implants could begin human clinical trials as soon as this year. But have Musk's grandiose promises about their capabilities raised hopes too high?

Why star VC Katie Haun departed Andreessen Horowitz with an audacious plan to build a $1 billion crypto investing juggernaut

The a16z vet made her name with big bets on Coinbase and OpenSea. Her new venture is on track to be the biggest Web3 fund raised by a solo female VC.

The founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse caught COVID. 4 months later, he died by suicide. Family and colleagues detail his final days and legacy

The life of the iconoclastic entrepreneur offers lessons on taking your own path, facing grief, and moving on.

Crypto is crashing—and experts predict more pain ahead

Stalwart coins like Bitcoin have shed over 40% in recent months.

Investing in the metaverse: 13 stocks to buy for 2022

Where analysts and money managers see the most compelling metaverse investing opportunities now.

Why Wall Street thinks the metaverse will be worth trillions

The metaverse might be the most important trend in tech since the iPhone—or it might be the next Dotcom bust. But big business doesn't want to risk missing out.

The Great Resignation is coming to decimate the ranks of middle management. The C-Suite should be worried

Being the boss is more challenging and less rewarding now than it’s ever been, and as a result more managers are quitting their jobs.

Meet the Novastans: How Novavax vaccine’s cultlike following could alter the course of COVID

Some superfans say they will only take Novavax’s vaccine—even if they have to travel abroad to get it.

What history tells us the stock market will do in 2022

One way to help frame the future is by looking to the past to see the range of outcomes you can expect after a banner year like 2021.

A teenager built an NFT collection valued at more than $26 million in one year. Here are his best tips to make and sell hit NFTs.

Artist Victor Langlois cannot wait to see what the future has in store for NFTs after 11 months in which he sold over 3,000 NFTs and crashed Christie’s auction house website.

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