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Liz Hoffman writes on business and finance topics at Semafor, a startup publication with global ambitions, which she joined in July 2022. Before joining Semafor, Liz spent nine years at The Wall Street Journal, covering M&A, corporate governance, investment banking and capital markets. She joined the Journal in 2013 covering mergers and acquisitions and broke news on some of the biggest corporate tie-ups of all time, including Burger King and Tim Horton's, Dell and EMC, and a hostile bid for Hershey's, her hometown corporate titan. As a senior finance reporter she produced a string of front-page articles and scoops, including on Goldman Sachs’s push into Main Street, the travails of the world’s largest venture capital fund, the foibles of the SPAC boom, and the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on financial markets. Liz is also the author of Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink, which focuses on big business and the pandemic.