Tribute to a Legend
For over a century, Forbes has championed entrepreneurs, and that’s true internally, too. Those who have shaped and reshaped this incredible company follow the spirit of founder B.C. Forbes, a journalist-turned-entrepreneur nonpareil, who implored readers to “spend your life on something that will outlast you.” Stephen Mathai-Davis fit brilliantly into that tradition. He came from a Wall Street family, and he had an evangelist’s zeal for using technology and finance to help people. Stephen started Q.ai, an AI-driven platform that offered retail investors the same advantages available to hedge fund hotshots. Forbes bought a big stake in it, then let him run with it in the entrepreneurial style that had made him so successful in the first place. On July 22, while preparing to shoot his new investing series on Forbes YouTube,…