Finance
I pitched Tinder the job I wanted to do — and ended up getting hired full-time
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ryan Stewart, a 28-year-old brand marketing manager at Tinder, based in Los Angeles. His identity has been confirmed by Business Insider. This piece has been edited for length and clarity. I started as a design intern at Tinder in the UK in…
I moved from California to Italy. I started walking over 10,000 steps without even trying.
I sat on my gray couch in my California home, surrounded by plain white walls and a fiddle-leaf fig plant. Before turning on Netflix, I grabbed my phone, clicked on the heart icon, and checked my step count for the day. On an ideal day, I’d have at least 10,000 steps — the alleged holy
Nostalgia hit me in the Costco clothing aisle. I bought the $17 Esprit sweatshirt and love it.
I grew up in the 1980s and early ’90s, when Esprit’s bright colors and bold lettering made the brand instantly recognizable. Growing up as a girl can be hard, and wearing the right thing mattered. When a friend told me Costco was selling Esprit sweatshirts, I knew I had to get one. I looked online.
US military leaders are sounding the alarm on a growing battlefield threat: drug-resistant bacteria
Roughly one-third of 33 recent US combat casualties evacuated from the Middle East were carrying bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics, the Joint Staff’s top medical officer said Monday, offering an early warning about a military threat that’s already complicating the recoveries of wounded…
$1 billion travel agent platform Fora just landed its first CMO
Destination: Fora. Fora Travel, the AI-powered platform that links travel agents (the human kind) with people planning their vacations, has appointed its first chief marketing officer, CMO Insider can exclusively reveal. Alanna Gregory has joined the company from Block, where she was VP of…
2 pilots bought 7 RVs, and are turning their ‘Airbnb on wheels’ business into a retirement plan
Carrie and Brian Smith rented an RV in July 2023 while participating in RAGBRAI, an annual seven-day bicycle ride across Iowa. Their accommodations weren’t cheap — or particularly nice. The bath towels were “kids’ old swimming towels,” Carrie told Business Insider. “The seats had cuts in them, and…
I took a 7-year career break to care for my parents. I lost my professional identity — then found a new one.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Natasya Pawanteh, 45, who lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In 2017, I was a raging workaholic. As an ambitious, mid-career geologist at Shell in Sarawak, Malaysia, I was focused on deepening…
AMD executives say the chip company has a key advantage over Nvidia: being more open
AMD says it has a major advantage in the AI chip race against Nvidia: being more open. AMD has long promoted this strategy through its open-source ROCm software, used to program AI chips. Since ROCm is available as open source, it’s free for anyone to use, download, or modify. On the company’s…
McDonald’s is facing slowing sales. Its under $3 value menu shows why
McDonald’s tried a new value menu. Customers aren’t loving it. The fast-food giant’s comparable US sales growth slowed to 0.8% during its second quarter, a slower clip than the 2.5% it reported for the year-ago quarter. The chain also changed leadership of its US business, naming Skye Anderson as…
What smart people are saying about OpenAI’s ‘Apple is getting this wrong’ rebuttal
OpenAI is clapping back against Apple’s lawsuit. On Monday, the AI company published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” accusing the iPhone maker of presenting a misleading account of the events behind its trade-secret lawsuit. OpenAI highlighted what it said were errors in Apple’s…