Jane Lewis
Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.
She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.
Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.
She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.
Latest articles by Jane Lewis
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The story of Wise, a multi-billion fintech started by accident
Profiles If you grow up in a situation where a whole country has to be made from scratch, creating a game-changing financial technology start-up such as Wise doesn’t seem so outlandish.
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Wes Edens: the raider who snapped up Morrisons
Profiles Wes Edens is already well known in Birmingham for rescuing the city’s Aston Villa football club from disaster. Can he pull a similar trick with a flagging supermarket chain?
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John McAfee: the tech maverick who lost a $100m fortune
Profiles John McAfee made his name pioneering software to protect against computer viruses. He lost nearly everything in the financial crash and lived a life on the run, killing himself to thwart the US authorities.
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Ken Goldin: making a million from a child’s hobby
Profiles Ken Goldin’s career began when, aged 12, he swapped his toy cars for a baseball-card collection. He turned the hobby into a multimillion-dollar business – and now the market is going wild.
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Patrick Drahi’s audacious raid on BT
Profiles Patrick Drahi, the Israeli-French billionaire, has stealthily become the biggest shareholder in the British telecoms firm, seeking to unleash its true value. But his record might well make BT nervous.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: prophet of the AI age
Profiles Jensen Huang’s Nvidia started out in computer games. That may have been merely a toehold on the route to global dominance in the tech industry.
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Strive Masiyiwa: the philanthropist who connected Africa
Profiles Strive Masiyiwa made his fortune bringing the mobile phone to the masses in Africa. Now he’s the first black billionaire to join the ranks of The Sunday Times’ Rich List.
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Chamath Palihapitiya: the social savant leading the Spac revolution
Profiles Chamath Palihapitiya is credited with sparking the current market mania for Spacs and mob investing. He says his aim is to bring down the establishment from within.
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Harley Finkelstein’s Shopify: the “Amazon for entrepreneurs”
Profiles Shopify started as a snowboard shop that baulked at gifting its customers to Amazon. Now,it is an essential part of the internet’s infrastructure. Harley Finkelstein, the firm’s driving force, is aiming higher.
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Anthony Tan: the Malaysian business scion taking on Uber
Profiles Anthony Tan has always been unabashedly ambitious and, in taxi-hailing apps, saw his chance to get into the history books. The competition, though, may be about to hot up.
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António Horta-Osório: the tennis ace who saved Lloyds Bank
Profiles António Horta-Osório was determined to rescue Britain’s largest high-street bank from disaster, and he succeeded, if at the cost of his own health. Can he repeat the trick at stricken Credit Suisse?
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Cazoo’s Alex Chesterman: “I’m not an innovator, just a copycat”
Profiles Serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman likes to improve the consumer experience by spotting what’s broken, then fixing it. That’s been a successful strategy, but is he about to call it a day?
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Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel: the maths nerd who struck vaccine gold
Profiles A decade ago, Stéphane Bancel took a gamble and joined a fledgling start-up working on an unproven new technology. The gamble paid off with the rise of Covid-19.
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Will Shu: Deliveroo CEO and its first delivery rider
Profiles City analyst Will Shu was sick of working long hours at Canary Wharf and having to make do with what was left on the shelf in Tesco for dinner. So he set out to solve the problem himself.
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John and Patrick Collison: the nerds who conquered Silicon Valley
Profiles John and Patrick Collison, a genial pair of young Irish brothers from a humble background, had a simple idea – to launch the next PayPal. Just ten years on, they’re now worth about $10bn each after founding Stripe.
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AstraZeneca’s Pascal Soriot: in the crossfire of the vaccine wars
Profiles AstraZeneca’s boss Pascal Soriot was winning plaudits for his stewardship when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Since then, he’s been having a hard time of it.
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Merck Mercuriadis: the mogul shaking up the music business
Profiles Merck Mercuriadis has been spending millions snapping up the rights to hit songs and turning them into an income stream for investors. Can the good times last?
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Jay Z: the urban Shakespeare who became hip-hop’s first billionaire
Profiles Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, has always displayed a talent not just for rhyme, but for making money too – he was hip-hop’s first billionaire. He hasn’t lost his touch, says Jane Lewis
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Tom Morris: the rise of Home Bargains and the lure of the treasure hunt
Profiles Despite the digital revolution, piling it high and selling it cheap on the high street remains a profitable strategy. Ask Tom Morris and family, now worth more than Philip Green and Mike Ashley combined.
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Ian and Richard Livingstone: the brothers who built a $7.2bn fortune
Profiles As 20-somethings, Ian and Richard Livingstone began snapping up cheap London property. Their knack for spotting promising but underrated assets has served them well ever since.
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Cathie Wood: the superstar investor shooting for the stars
Profiles Cathie Wood has quietly built a reputation for picking the unloved and misunderstood stocks that go on to thrive. She has just launched a new ETF that seeks profits in space exploration.
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Meet Andy Jassy – the new broom at Amazon
Profiles Andy Jassy is taking over from departing CEO Jeff Bezos at the world’s largest online retailer. Will he be able to fill the founder’s shoes? Jane Lewis reports
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Kate Bingham: the grande dame of venture capitalists
Profiles The success of Britain’s vaccine strategy is largely down to one woman – Kate Bingham, a biotech expert for a venture-capital firm. It’s not the first time she has thrown herself head first into a big challenge.
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Stanley Thai: making a billion from rubber gloves
Profiles Malaysian entrepreneur Stanley Thai first spotted an opportunity in latex in 1987. He made his first million by the age of 29, and booming demand thanks to Covid-19 has boosted his fortune.
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