What Everyone Got Wrong About GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood
A Wall Street Journal reporter’s book flips the script about the meme stock–trading frenzy that erupted around Grapevine-based retailer GameStop in 2021.
Tom Foster writes about business, innovation, and creative people. In addition to Texas Monthly, Tom Foster’s work has appeared in Inc., Fast Company, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Garden & Gun, and many other publications. He’s a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio.
A Wall Street Journal reporter’s book flips the script about the meme stock–trading frenzy that erupted around Grapevine-based retailer GameStop in 2021.
By Tom Foster
At Elsik High School, students from Honduras, Senegal, Houston, and most places in between form the best boys soccer team you've never heard of.
By Tom Foster
The historic Stagecoach Inn undergoes its second remodel in three years—this time with a new old name. Overseeing it all is the Austin group known for some of the state's trendiest hotels.
By Tom Foster
The record influx of recent arrivals from all over might be exactly what the state needs. That includes Californians. (And no, they’re not turning Texas blue.)
By Tom Foster
A sign of the times on a showstopping Hill Country peak.
By Tom Foster
Ben Lamm’s latest company, Colossal, hopes to reverse climate change by reintroducing the long-extinct creature to the Arctic. What could go wrong?
By Tom Foster
Tom Markusic, the founder and CEO of Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace, explains how the next generation of rocketry companies is different from NASA—and from SpaceX and Blue Origin too.
By Tom Foster
The popular Western boot company heads into new territory with the web brand’s first retail store, opening soon in Austin.
By Tom Foster
America’s wealthiest black person is a tech investor with an eye for value.
By Tom Foster
The Austin man behind Sweet Leaf Tea and Deep Eddy Vodka isn’t done populating your local grocery shelf.
By Tom Foster
The Rackspace founder is turning his attention to civic development—with very fast results.
By Tom Foster
The CEO of Austin’s WP Engine says her company doesn’t look like most tech outfits—and that’s one reason it’s so successful.
By Tom Foster
Now that the I-35 construction nightmare is over, the newly reopened hotel and restaurant finds itself at the center of this small town’s rebirth.
By Tom Foster
Kit Goldsbury made his fortune in Pace Picante sauce, and Graham Weston in the cloud computing company Rackspace. Now the billionaire philanthropists are leading ambitious urban renewal projects.
By Tom Foster
With law enforcement racing to track down their first real lead, officials urge continued caution.
By Tom Foster
Despite its rich Texas history, sotol is a little-known spirit. The men behind new Driftwood distillery Desert Door want to change that.
By Tom Foster
Don’t blame Samuel Brody, the professor who’s been warning for years that Houston was at risk for a Harvey-style flood, if he’s feeling a tinge of vindication. Now, will anyone listen to his suggestions for what to do next?
By Tom Foster
A chat with the Dallas doctor in charge of the country’s most ambitious study of traumatic brain injuries among student athletes.
By Tom Foster
Whole Foods' eccentric founder changed the way Americans consume food. Can he survive the Wall Street forces that now want to consume him?
By Tom Foster