Global Economics
This word describes a general rise in prices over time, which makes your money worth less
Inflation
On this app, people turn a flat tire into "5 lessons it taught me about leadership," start every post with "I'm thrilled to announce…," and list a lemonade stand as "Founder & CEO."
Highway billboards for AI apps nobody's heard of, founders in Patagonia vests, and driverless robotaxis on every corner. This California city is ground zero for startup hype
San Francisco
This man joined Tesla as an early investor and became its CEO in 2008. He later went on to become the world's first trillionaire
Elon Musk
This stock market index tracks 500 of the largest companies in the U.S
S&P 500
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa formed a group of growing economies known by this acronym
BRICS
This luxury Mercedes model is a favorite for flaunting wealth along with the song "Blue Bands." Its SUV has a feature that allows the car to bounce up and down
Maybach
What does B2B stand for?
Business-to-business
This man was fired from the company he co-founded in 1985 and returned 12 years later to save it. In 2007 he unveiled the iPhone.
Steve Jobs
Stocks going up is called a bull market. Stocks going down is named after this animal
Bear(bear market)
The "Big Board" is the nickname for this Wall Street stock exchange, the largest in the world
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Rented Lamborghinis, crypto bros, and "entrepreneurs" filming content on Brickell rooftops. This Florida city became the capital of flexing money you don't actually have
Miami
A startup worth $1 billion is named after this magical horse
A Unicorn
This reality TV star launched a shapewear brand in 2019 called "Kimono." After backlash over the name she renamed it SKIMS, and it helped make her a billionaire
Kim Kardashian
In 2021, Reddit users on r/WallStreetBets sent this video game store's stock soaring, costing Wall Street hedge funds billions
GameStop
Prices in this African country rose so fast in 2008 that it printed a 100-trillion-dollar bill
Zimbabwe
Name one model of private jet made by Gulfstream or Bombardier
When a startup changes its whole idea, it's said to do this basketball move
Pivot
This man quit a Wall Street job in 1994 to sell books online out of his Seattle garage. The company later grew into "the everything store."
Jeff Bezos
In 2010, a programmer paid 10,000 of these for two pizzas. Those coins would later be worth hundreds of millions of dollars
Bitcoin
In 2021, this Central American country became the first to make Bitcoin official money
El Salvador
Superyachts packed in harbors, $1,000 lunches, helicopter skiing, and almost no regular people. Name one billionaires playground
These investors fund early-stage startups in exchange for equity. They expect most of those companies to fail and count on a few big winners to make up the losses.
Venture Capitalists(VCs)
As a Harvard sophomore he built a site where students rated classmates' photos. He turned the idea into a social network in 2004, then dropped out
Mark Zuckerberg
In January 2025, this Chinese AI startup released a chatbot it said was built for a fraction of what American companies spend. Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in value in one day
Deepseek