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Nearly 25 years ago, a mariachi band played at a SpaceX party while Elon Musk posed for a photo. The rocket company’s head count was single digits back then. Today, it’s over 22,000.SpaceX started with two long-shot goals: make rockets cheaper to launch and, eventually, send mankind to Mars.More than…
When Kugan Suppiah was 24, he wasn’t thinking about climbing the corporate ladder. He was thinking about cookies.The University of Oklahoma graduate spent months persuading his parents to invest with him in a Bang Cookies franchise in Oklahoma City after becoming convinced the gourmet cookie chain could succeed there.Now 25,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maurice Edu, analyst with Major League Soccer on Apple TV. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I was growing up in California’s inland empire, I was constantly playing soccer with my four siblings. I’d narrate the games: “Mo shoots,…
Growing up, all I wanted was to leave my rural hometown of Edenton, North Carolina, behind and move to a big city.Alongside a population of less than 5,000, Edenton has one big grocery store and a downtown that really just consists of a single short main street.Almost every bar and…
Goldman Sachs’ youngest employees are walking into an “innovation supercycle.”CEO David Solomon said as much in his annual welcome letter to interns, sent Friday to the entire firm, where he also celebrated Goldman’s position as lead left bookrunner on SpaceX’s historic IPO.He’s sent a similar note every year since 2019,…
Anthropic changed course after a developer backlash this week. The bigger story is what the company is still doing, and why.The startup said it will no longer secretly degrade Fable 5 responses when users ask for help on frontier AI model development. Instead, Anthropic said these requests will be routed…
Miami is home to countless eateries serving up classic Cuban sandwiches, all claiming to be the best in town.On a recent trip to Miami, I stopped by Sanguich in Bayside Marketplace to try what locals and critics have dubbed the best Cuban sandwich in the city.Every year since 2022, Sanguich…
My boyfriend and I floated back to my apartment after dinner and a comedy show, feeling the warmth of pizza and laughter. As we cuddled up on the couch, we began to talk about moving in together. By then, we’d only been together for six months. We knew this was…
This as-told-to essay is based on several conversations with Rory Phillips-Hunter, a 37-year-old estate and maintenance manager at a farm in North West England. Born in the Scottish Borders, he is a Scottish national soccer fan, known collectively as the Tartan Army.I was at the game when Scotland beat Denmark…
Dave Lewis had what it took to land jobs at some of the most sought-after Big Tech companies. But after getting laid off twice in three years, he found himself grappling with where he fit into the future of tech.Lewis spent a decade at Google, was laid off by Amazon,…
