Business News
A New Survey Says This Popular Type of Work Is Thriving Despite CEO Resistance
CEOs are pushing back against this type of work, but it continues to be popular.
By Sherin Shibu
News and Trends
Business News
Hundreds of Louisiana Teachers Are Getting $50,000 Bonuses This Year. Here’s Why.
In some cases, the bonuses amount to more than a teacher’s salary for the entire year.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Americans Think They Understand Money. The Data Says Otherwise: ‘It’s Disturbing’
A new data point shows that financial literacy is not just low, but deteriorating.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
He Spent 15 Years Quietly Buying SpaceX Shares. Now His Stake Is Worth $20 Billion.
Justin Fishner-Wolfson's firm, 137 Ventures, made its first SpaceX investment in 2011. He never looked back
Business News
She Turned Celebrity Gossip Into a $22 Billion Company — Here’s How Kalshi’s Co-Founder Did It
At 29, Luana Lopes Lara is the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Her road to riches started with celebrity gossip.
Business News
Mark Zuckerberg Admits Meta ‘Made Mistakes’ as AI Reshapes 20% of Its Workforce
In a leaked internal memo, the Meta CEO owned up to the chaos caused by May's layoffs, but says there will be no more this year.
Business News
He Took a ‘Mythical Unicorn Job’ Working As Amazon’s Chief Meteorologist. Most People Don’t Even Know He Exists.
Most don’t realize Amazon has a Chief Meteorologist — or how central the role is to operations.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Looking for Remote Work? Working From Home Has a Hidden Cost.
Remote work offers no commute, flexible working hours and heightened productivity — but there are drawbacks too.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Elon Musk Is Now the World’s First Trillionaire After SpaceX’s Record IPO
The biggest public debut in Wall Street history pushed the world's richest person across a milestone with 13 digits.
Business News
Missed the SpaceX IPO? You May Already Be an Investor.
Missed Friday's record debut? You may already own a piece through your index funds — here's how to find out.
Buying a Franchise
KFC Asked a Bold Question: What Would the Colonel Build Today? Here’s the Surpising Answer.
This summer the chain opens a completely reimagined restaurant in Texas to test what the brand's next decade looks like.
Business News
Jeff Bezos Isn’t Worried About AI Taking Jobs — And Now He’s Launching a New AI Venture
Bezos is the co-chief executive of AI startup Prometheus, and he has an optimistic view of how AI will impact society.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
A Price War Is Brewing Between OpenAI and Anthropic — And It Could Make AI a Lot Cheaper for Your Business
OpenAI is weighing drastic cuts to what it charges for AI tokens. It expects Anthropic to do the same.
Business News
McKinsey Consultants Are Letting New Technology Take Over an Essential Part of Their Work
McKinsey staff are known for their dependence on PowerPoint — but times are changing.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Summer Travel Costs Are Skyrocketing — Here’s How Americans Are Responding
The latest inflation figures showed that average airline fares rose nearly 27% compared to last year.
By Sherin Shibu
Buying a Franchise
They Just Opened Their 1,700th Cafe and Have 900 More Signed. Here’s the Strategy Fueling This $1.5 Billion Franchise.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe's secret is getting smoothie customers to also eat there.
Entrepreneurship
She Watched Doctors Give Her 92-Year-Old Grandmother ‘the Worst of the Worst’ Nutrition. Now She’s Coming for a $6 Billion Market: ‘If Not Me, Then Who?’
Jess Haghani never set out to be a founder. Now she's betting her brand, Lucille Health, can take on the older-adult nutrition market.
By Jon Bier
Business News
She Paid Under $100 for a Thrift Store Painting. Google Gemini Helped It Sell for $254,000.
Helene Plotkin bought the painting in 1966 and loved it for decades. Her son's five-minute experiment with Google Gemini changed everything.
Business News
Forget Learning to Code. Meta Just Launched a $115 Million Program to Train Electricians and Plumbers.
The company is starting a “workforce academy” to train workers to build the infrastructure of its data centers.
Business News
One Is a Poet. One Pleaded Guilty to a Felony. Here’s How the Second Wave of AI Billionaires Is Worth $59 Billion.
The latest wave of AI wealth isn't coming from chips or data centers. It's coming from founders who applied AI to old industries.
Business News
The Man Behind Anthropic’s Claude Code Hasn’t Written a Line of Code in 8 Months — Here’s What He Does Instead
Boris Cherny says developers have come a long way from using a single Claude Code tab in a window.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
This Podcast Star Has 17 Million Subscribers. He Gave His Protégé One Valuable Piece of Advice.
Steven Bartlett invested a seven-figure sum in Maggie Sellers Reum’s “Hot Smart Rich” podcast and also became an active mentor, not just a financial backer.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
While the U.S. Fights Over Where to Put AI Data Centers, China Just Built One on the Ocean Floor — But How Safe Is It?
The $226 million structure sits 115 feet below the ocean and runs on wind power. Some scientists are questioning its impact on marine life.
Business News
Forget Golf. The Ultra-Wealthy Are Joining This Private Racetrack for $450,000.
Singer Drivers Club, outside of LA, is a members-only club where car enthusiasts can race their $3 million Porches and Ferraris.
Business News
The World Cup Is Days Away. So Why Can’t FIFA Sell Out Its Opening Matches?
According to FIFA, the World Cup is sold out. According to StubHub, it very much is not. Excitement is in the air, so what is going on?
Business News
Goldman Sachs Accepted Less Than 1% of Intern Applicants This Year. Here’s What Set Candidates Apart.
It’s the third year in a row that Goldman Sachs’ intern acceptance rate was under 1%.
By Sherin Shibu
Business News
Colleges Want Students to Sign Up for Degree Programs in This Emerging Field: ‘We’re Basically the Test Subjects’
This degree has recently exploded in popularity as students try to keep up with technology.
By Sherin Shibu