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Salesforce cut fewer than 1,000 workers in February, including employees from marketing, product management, data analytics, and its Agentforce AI product.In an episode of “The Logan Bartlett Show” released last August, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company was using AI agents in its customer support division to replace humans…
I was a 90’s kid in San Diego. That meant playing outside or at the park alone, walking our dog around the neighborhood, and going to the nearby store to buy snacks and treats when our mom was at work. Loading audio narration… While we weren’t exactly latchkey kids, we…
Michael Burry sold his entire stake in GameStop this week after CEO Ryan Cohen launched a takeover bid for eBay. Loading audio narration… The investor of “The Big Short” fame, who counted GameStop among the three largest holdings in his stock portfolio, wrote on his Substack that he closed the…
On an otherwise innocuous morning in January 2025, I lost my job. Loading audio narration… When the CEO asked me into his office, I already knew what was coming. Management had held an emergency meeting earlier that morning, warning us that mass layoffs were coming.Two of my colleagues had already…
A growing number of layoffs are being tied to AI, and one founder is poking fun at the boilerplate explanations companies keep using. Loading audio narration… Tuomas Artman, the cofounder of software company Linear, shared a hiring announcement dressed up in the language of those all-too-familiar layoff announcements.”Today is a…
I love startups and entrepreneurship. My obsession started when I was reselling Nerds candy in Taipei, purchased from the U.S. commissary store. To recognize and exploit a pricing arbitrage as a nine-year-old felt like winning the lottery every time a new batch arrived. In 1998, a year before graduating from…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Susie Cranston, CEO of Cresset. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… There’s a famous story in my family: my mom and her twin sister were in first grade at a religious school in the Bay Area.…
“God’s Plan” became Drake’s first diamond song in 2019.The rapper received a second diamond certification in 2020 as a featured artist on Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” and a third in 2021 as a featured artist on Future’s “Life Is Good.”He added two more in 2022 for solo hits, “Hotline Bling”…
It’s no secret today’s economy is casting a shadow over many people’s lives, whether at the grocery store, gas pump or even keeping the lights on at home. But, so far, Americans, especially homeowners, appear to be holidng steady when it comes to their debt. Total mortgage balances have risen…
One of the first things I did when I got pregnant with my daughter was put her on every daycare waitlist I could find. Loading audio narration… Daycares in Vancouver are extremely competitive — many have waitlists of a couple of years, and some have waitlists of four years or…
