Finance
Erin Piacenti, killed in Times Square stabbing, was a ‘superstar’ at Bank of America known for mentoring junior teammates
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…
He waited nearly 20 years to start a company. Now he’s the cofounder of a double unicorn.
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…
Walmart’s copycat strategy: Restaurant delivery is its latest use of heft to break into established markets
Walmart got its start in 1962 selling general merchandise as a discount store in Rogers, Arkansas. Founder Sam Walton was constantly on the lookout for new retail concepts to try, and he wasn’t shy about borrowing ideas from other successful entrepreneurs. “He just tried things, and he would learn…
SAP has a message for software doomsayers: The pendulum will swing back
A SAP executive says the “pendulum will swing back” from the SaaSpocalypse. Like many software companies, the German software giant has seen its stock hit hard over the past year amid competition from AI tools. This stock sell-off of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, known as the…
I’m dating a founder and it feels like a relationship on steroids. I’ve had to take a backseat to my dreams— but with the right person, it’s worth it.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Diaz Valdez, a 29-year-old based in Spain. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I feel like a relationship with a founder is a relationship on steroids because it’s so intense in the trust and patience it requires. I’ve had to be…
We bought an abandoned home in a Japanese ski town for $22,000. It’s given our nomadic family the home base we were missing.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lloyd Enbom, 40, a content creator who purchased an abandoned home in Hakuba, Japan, a ski town in Nagano Prefecture, with his wife, Mandy Rutherford. Enbom, who is from Australia, plans to continue traveling with his wife and two-year-old…
US soldiers stormed a desert city in preparation for a high-tech war against a top foe. Here’s how it went.
The US Bradley Fighting Vehicles were visible on the horizon as they raced toward the city. Smoke, deployed to conceal movement, formed wisps around the outskirts. Assault forces, preparing to storm the enemy stronghold, gathered on the northern edge, navigating barbed wire, cars, and concrete…
I was the PTA mom who did everything. Then I decided my son needed me more.
I am the mom of an only child, and my 17-year-old son is a senior this year. I’ve always tried to volunteer and get involved to help out and enrich his school experience, but in recent years, I’ve scaled back. When he started high school and joined the marching band in ninth grade, I no
I don’t volunteer at my daughter’s school. It’s better for both of us.
When my daughter, now 9, started kindergarten, I was very surprised that her school asked parents to take time off from their busy schedules to help in the classroom, during field trips, or at special events like book fairs. Coming from France, I was accustomed to a different approach. There…
A veteran chief engineer building a flying taxi shared the one piece of advice he’d give his 25-year-old self
David King is the chief engineer at Vertical Aerospace, a British company developing an eVTOL — an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft — intended to work like a flying taxi. If he could give his 25-year-old self one piece of advice, King said, it would be: “Don’t be afraid of the…