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The business ‘Dream Team’ repeats as the best company and the highest valued manager in Spain

July 1, 2026 by usatoday24

If we think about which Spanish company is the best ratedit is very likely that Inditex, Mercadona, Banco Santander or Repsol are among the most repeated. The same thing happens when we talk about entrepreneurs who have founded them or managers who direct them. Names like Amancio Ortega, Juan Roig or Ana Botín are the first that come to mind. For the last 25 years, the corporate reputation business monitor Merco make a ranking with the best valued companies and managers in the country. In its 26th edition of Merco Empresas, the duo Inditex and Juan Roig have remained immovable on the podium as a company and manager best rated from Spain. Inditex, again at the top One more year, Inditex tops the list of the 200 companies with the best reputation in Spain. They are closely followed by Mercadona and Grupo Social Once, which complete a podium that barely changes from one year to the next. The Merco Empresas study is prepared based on 65,000 surveys, seven evaluations and 29 different sources, as detailed by the Merco Empresas study. Merco report. In fact, the top 5 of 2026 has not moved one place compared to the 2025 edition. But from sixth place onwards changes do appear. Caixabank rises two positions compared to the 2025 ranking and enters the top 6. The insurer Mapfre also improves its rating, going from tenth to eighth place, achieving 7,111 points from the experts. Coca-Cola, on the other hand, loses four positions and falls to tenth place. Repsol, Iberdrola, Caixabank, BBVA and Santander complete the top 10 best valued Spanish companies. Juan Roig, eight years unbeatable Something very similar happens in the leader ranking. Juan Roig, president of Mercadona, repeats as the highest-rated executive in Spain for the eighth year in a row, as confirmed by himself leader ranking. Ana Botín, executive president of Banco Santander, follows closely behind. Closing the top 3 is Amancio Ortega, followed by Marta Ortega, founder and non-executive president of the Inditex group respectively. This block already has several editions without changing ordersomething unusual in a ranking that measures public perception and not just the figures on a balance sheet of financial results. From fifth place onwards there are new developments. Josu Jon Imaz (Repsol) rises to sixth place and Pablo Isla (Nestlé) enters seventh. Isidre Fainé and Gonzalo Gortázar (CaixaBank) also climb positions compared to the previous year. Antonio Huertas (Mapfre) slips into tenth place after climbing five steps. Florentino Pérez (ACS Group) and María Dolores Dancausa (Bankinter), on the other hand, leave the top 10 this year. From the analysis of this reputation list, two clear conclusions can be drawn. The first is that both Mercadona and Inditex, as well as their directors and founders, are two examples of business success not so much for its good growth figuresbut for having achieved connect with your customerswhich are those that are taken into account in this type of listings. On the other hand, it is striking how the personality or image that a manager projects can even be above the perception levels of the company he or she directs. That is to say, the public recognizes the work of a manager like Ana Botón, placing her in second position but, on the other hand, Banco Santander has not achieved the same connection with users than its president, maintaining ninth position in the company ranking. Amancio Ortega, the boss who no longer commands but continues to weigh Amancio Ortega left the executive presidency of Inditex in 2011 and does not even have a management position in its investment arm Pontegadea. Since then he has lived away from the spotlight in La Coruña. But its shadow is still very long. Ortega continues to be the largest shareholder of the group, with more than 59% of the capital through Pontegadea, and will collect this year a record dividend of more than 3,234 million euros. Furthermore, he remains the only Spaniard among the ten richest in the world, according to the Forbes list of 2026. Ortega no longer signs decisions on a day-to-day basis at Inditex, however, even after his retirement, his name continues to occupy a prominent place in the ranking of managers best valued by the public. In Xataka | Mercadona is doing the opposite of other large companies: freezing Roig’s salary to reinvest it Image | GTRES, Mercadona

Five years ago he worked from his bathroom on the brink of ruin. Today he runs a company valued at 8 billion

October 8, 2025 by usatoday24

The story of Shayne Coplan and Polymarket is one of those striking cases that you like to see in the past. And the founder of this company practically started from bankruptcy in a makeshift bathroom as an office to close a $2 billion investment on the New York Stock Exchange. Now, the prediction markets platform that he founded in 2020 has just reached a valuation of $8 billion after the agreement with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the NYSE. The takeoff. Coplan’s situation in 2020 was not exactly an example of the American dream. Just like shared a while ago In a publication in X, he was seen working from a bathroom converted into an office, with hardly any money and alone in charge of the project. Five years later, its platform has become the largest prediction market in the world, where users bet on the results of real events, from elections to sports or culture. Wall Street’s bet. ICE has announced an investment of up to $2 billion in cash in Polymarket, valuing the company at approximately $8 billion before the capital injection. The agreement turns ICE into a global distributor from Polymarket data, which will provide sentiment indicators on topics relevant to financial markets. Additionally, both companies will collaborate on tokenization initiatives that combine traditional financial markets with blockchain technology. How the model works. Polymarket allows users to express their opinions by buying and selling shares on possible event outcomes. Each operation is executed peer-to-peer using smart contracts. Markets grow with the number of participants, and prices reflect the perceived probability of each outcome occurring. The platform gained notoriety for the accuracy of their predictions during the 2024 US presidential electionwhere he managed billions in bets. roller coaster. Polymarket’s trajectory has not been linear. In 2022, federal regulators forced the platform to block US users after an agreement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The company operated from abroad for three years. This year, Polymarket bought QCEXa CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange, to return to the US market. The operation came weeks after prosecutors closed an investigation into whether the company had allowed access to American users despite the ban. Return at the perfect time. The changing regulatory climate under the Trump administration has favored emerging sectors such as event contracts and cryptocurrencies. Polymarket received an undisclosed investment in August from 1789 Capital, a firm endorsed by Donald Trump Jr., who later joined the company’s advisory board. What’s coming now. Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of ICE, admits proudly that the investment combines an institution founded in 1792 (the NYSE), with a company that “is revolutionizing decentralized finance.” For Coplan, the agreement marks the entry of prediction markets into the traditional financial system. It remains to be seen whether these markets can maintain their growth and become truly useful tools for institutional investors. For now, ICE has bet heavily on the response being positive. Cover image | Shayne Coplan and Matthew Reeves (BFA) In Xataka | There is a worrying symptom in the technological economy: Silicon Valley prefers to buy itself rather than invest in the future

The startup of ia of one of Openai’s co -founders has no product. Even so it is valued at 32,000 million dollars

April 15, 2025 by usatoday24

Promises and expectations can use a fortune. It is the only thing that justifies that a startup of which nothing is known It is worth good 32,000 million dollars. That is more than eBay, Endesa or Hyundai, but with the difference that these companies have been working for years and even decades to achieve that figure. But we are in the AI era, and here, we insist, promises and expectations are worth a lot. There is not much more than right now it seems to offer Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the startup of Ia co -founded by Ilya Sutskever, who was already confused of OpenAi and abandoned his ranks less than a year ago. According to Financial TimesSutskever has managed to lift a financing round of 2,000 million dollars for its startup, which makes the assessment of the same ascend to those mentioned 32,000 million dollars. The figure is also surprising because the economic moment we live, with tariffs threatening everything, precisely raises an important brake on investment. In September SSI He already lifted $ 1 billion and that made its valuation out of 5,000 million. That figure has multiplied by six, which seems to make it clear that they have something striking in hand. In An interview Last year Sutksver raised an AI with “nuclear safety”clarifying that “no matter how safe we mean as when we talk about nuclear safety, as opposed to safe when we talk about” trust and security “”. In a later interview in September this engineer and entrepreneur indicated that he and his team had “identified a new mountain to climb and that it is something different from what I previously worked on.” Sources close to SSI have indicated that the company works in very special ways to develop and climb AI models. If true The milestone would certainly be intriguingespecially now that it is criticized that climbing – more gpus and more data to train AI models— It no longer provides such striking improvements. Be that as it may, the former OpenAi employees are apparently very well after having left the company. We have another example in Look Muratiwhich has also launched a call startup Thinking Machines Lab. He is also working to raise an important investment round … and also does it without having any product to show. So are these times. Image | OpenAI In Xataka | There are too many AI models. That raises a true death sentence for Anthropic and Claude

The best valued serums for each type of skin and each age

January 28, 2025 by usatoday24

If you like to take care of yourself and you are faithful to your routine of Skincaresure you know The serum is a fundamental step. This product, which years ago was one of the great ‘forgotten’, has endless benefits to look healthy, beautiful and hydrated skinit can help you get a perfect makeup and, above all, it is a great anti -aging ally. Sérum treatments are formulas with The highest concentration of active ingredientsits texture is lighter and its faster absorption than that of traditional creams, allowing assets to penetrate the skin more deeply. They are used to treat specific problems such as wrinkles, spots, hydration … If you have not yet found the one that best suits your needs, we give you some tips. 15 For all skins and all ages We propose the ‘Life Plankton Elixir’ by Biotherm, an anti -aging serum that is ideal for any skin type and all ages. It must be the first step of your routine if you want to enhance its effects, achieving a brighter and more firm skin in just a week. Thanks to its powerful antioxidant and illuminating formula that contains hyaluronic acid and vitamin CG, regenerate, strengthens the barrier and hydrate, in addition to softening the skin. It can be used daily in the morning and/or night or as a timely treatment in younger skins 25 To reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture It is important that you take care of your day routine, but also the night. Therefore, you must use products that act while sleeping and focusing mainly on wrinkles, uniformity and skin quality to wake up with healthier and younger appearance. Try the ‘Sérum Blue Retinol’ of Biotherm, which contains a 0.25% concentration of pure retinol or vitamin A, the ingredient par excellence antiarugas that also works the spots and the tone in the skin. Always apply at night, after a period of adaptation of two nights in alternate week and, of course, it is mandatory that you use SPF 50 throughout the treatment 35 To prevent the signs of aging ‘Force Supreme Blue Serum LPXR’ is a treatment focused for those who want to treat, prevent and correct the signs of face aging such as wrinkles, lack of firmness, elasticity, texture, tone … In short, men with clear priorities that Look for a high performance product. Use this fresh and 100% vegan gel before your moisturizer or treatment, every day in the morning and/or night. You will notice its effects quickly: reduces wrinkles visibly in a month and increases the luminosity of the skin leaving it softer, firm and uniform 45 For mature skin Includes in your routine ‘Rénergie HCF Triple Sérum Antidad’ de Lancôme, a high anti -aging efficacy serum to combat the lack of firmness, wrinkles and spots that are indicated for all types of skins, especially after 40 years. A unique formula capable of correcting and caring for the skin thanks to the combination of three pundo dermoactive that until now were considered incompatible: hyaluronic acid, derived from vitamin C + niacinamide and ferulic acid. You can include it in your routine after cleaning and toneing the skin, and before applying your usual moisturizer 55 For damaged skin Day after day, the skin is exposed to pollution, stress and other factors that can cause visible damage. Therefore, it is important that we use products that help us to repair the skin. Lancôme’s ‘Sérum Génifique’ can become your ally not only to repair the skin barrier and combat the signs of aging, but also to hydrate, relieve and reduce redness and expression lines. What is the best way to use it? Apply serum with the pipette directly on the clean face and gently massage until it is absorbed (Tagstotranslate) for him

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