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Scroll down in American Express’ TikTok account, and you’ll find a video of Ira Galtman popping up from behind a bison at the Bronx Zoo.”Ira content makes my day,” one commenter wrote, evidently already familiar with Galtman, who, as a middle-aged archivist, didn’t expect to become a social media hit…
My toddler son wasn’t sure what to make of the situation.We’d just finished touring Costa Rica’s Manuel Antonio National Park, and were strolling through the adjacent village of Naranjito. He had his trusty stuffed toy, Grover, in tow. It wasn’t long before a group of local children spotted it and…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maggie Bodner, a 28-year-old employee at Spirit Halloween, based in the Fort Lauderdale area. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I was laid off in June and started to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vinoo Ganesh, the 34-year-old CEO of Kepler. He spent over six years at Palantir in the 2010s and later worked at Citadel. He’s based in New York. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Palantir had a program we called Project Frontline.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Gary Moss, 62, a resident of Puyallup, Washington, and his son, David, a Tesla owner. Moss, who is blind, attended Tesla’s Cybercab launch event with his son in Austin. Tesla made the Cybercab available to the Austin public following the event.…
Christina Quinones was two payments away from reaching the threshold for student-loan forgiveness.She’d spent nine years and 10 months pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, which forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments. Quinones, who works in a Texas school district, was looking forward…
When Erin Piacenti walked into Bank of America on Monday after five months on maternity leave, she found pink daisies sitting on her desk. Welcome signs were strung around the office she shared with a few teammates. Piacenti showed them photos of Madison, her newborn daughter, before settling in to…
After the islands, my husband flew in to join the trip, and we headed for Santa Barbara for a day. As we walked around, we talked about the city’s Spanish architecture, the history of colonization, and the California mission system.Connecting our visit back to the Lone Woman, who was eventually…
Earlier this month, the AI hacking startup Horizon3 achieved a rare milestone: a $250 million funding round pushed its market valuation above $2 billion, making it a so-called double unicorn.CEO Snehal Antani said he spent nearly two decades acquiring the skills he needed to build the business, which simulates cyberattacks…
Makalyn Heaslett, 27, has brought business to the sports world. She graduated from Auburn University, previously worked for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox, and is now an account executive for the Tennessee Titans.Heaslett is also pursuing a master’s degree in sport administration at Belmont University.As a volunteer, she…
