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I'm Jessica Mathews.
I’m a senior writer at Fortune Magazine, where I write about venture capital and startups. I wrote the Term Sheet newsletter for two years, where I won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before that, I covered the wealth management industry for Financial Planning. Now I’m spending all my time digging into the world’s largest private companies and trying to bring more transparency to the private markets. You can follow all my stories here, email me here, send me a confidential tip on Signal here, or follow me on X here.