PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.

The Big Four built its fortune on armies of junior consultants and accountants. PwC has started hiring fewer of them. Its US boss says that is the future, and he is comfortable with it. Paul Griggs, P [...]

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its Op [...]

Marble enters the race to bring AI to tax work, armed with $9 million and a free research tool

Marble, a startup building artificial intelligence agents for tax professionals, has raised $9 million in seed funding as the accounting industry grapples with a deepening labor shortage and mounting [...]

Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $ [...]

Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven [...]

How technology Is empowering accountants to deliver greater value to SMBs

FMS enables accountants to offer value and support SMBs. [...]

‘AI is tearing companies apart’: Writer AI CEO slams Fortune 500 leaders for mismanaging tech

May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for

Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and [...]