How Forbes Compiled The Innovator 250 List

Our methodology began in the newsroom and tapped both expert judges and AI systems.

Forbes 250: America’s Greatest Innovators

The Forbes Innovator 250: America’s Greatest Innovators showcases the visionaries shaping our future. Find the full list of great minds and the mark they are leaving on our history.

These Great American Innovators Won Fame — But Not Fortune — From Their Inventions

Our upcoming ranking of America’s 250 Greatest Innovators is aimed at those who were able to commercialize their innovations, but these less fortunate inventors also changed the world—even though they didn’t personally benefit.

VCs Are Throwing Money At Recent College Grads To Build Prediction Markets

After attracting $3.7 billion in new capital and minting young billionaires at Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction market startups are all the rage, especially for recent college graduates.

The Best Movies About America’s Greatest Innovators

Great success in business is one thing, making it in Hollywood is another. Here’s a multiplex’s worth of films inspired by iconic innovators—and the box-office gold they earned on the silver screen.

This $1,000-A-Year Credit-Boosting Service Rarely Improves Scores—But Still Takes Your Money

More than a year after being cut off by the credit bureaus, San Francisco fintech company TomoCredit continues to sell an exorbitant, misleading service and makes its subscription extremely difficult to cancel.

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Secretive Silicon Valley Investments

Thanks to his relationships to tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, Epstein had access to a number of lucrative tech investments. But he walked away from several deals with major startups that could have netted him millions, the new cache …

Tesla’s Semi Is Finally Hitting The Road. The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse

Elon Musk’s “beast” arrives as federal support for EVs withers and rising power costs complicate his claim that it will be cheaper to run than diesel rigs.

How Jeffrey Epstein Helped His Publicist Become A Big-Time Venture Capitalist

Masha Bucher is one of the more high profile female VCs in Silicon Valley. New emails released from the Department of Justice reveal a deep, years long relationship with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Sam Altman Explains The Future

Sam Altman founded his first tech company as a teenager and was running Y combinator, the world’s leading startup accelerator, by 28. As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, creating a $500 billion behemoth. As a new father, he…