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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…
My kids started school last week, and I pulled them out after the first day for a family trip. I don’t regret it.
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…
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…
Meet the 52 women competing to be the next Miss America
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…
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…
I stayed in a 250-square-foot tiny home for the first time, and 10 surprises left me thinking I could live in one
The tiny home I stayed in had wheels meant to be pulled by a trailer, but it didn’t look like it had been moved recently. Located in the hidden yard of a larger home, the Airbnb stood on cinderblocks against a wall. Its wheels were not visible from the accessible side, and I thought moving
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…
OpenAI says it will change how it informs the public when its AI agents go off the rails
OpenAI says it’s time to come clean about what happens when its AI agents go rogue. The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This “incident,” the latest in a series of uncovered…
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…
My husband and I both survived strokes. At 69, I’m still working full time and caring for him.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Carla Bacon, 69, who is caring for her 70-year-old husband while working a full-time job in Oklahoma. Bacon’s husband has slowly been recovering from a stroke, and they’ve had to go into medical debt to make ends meet. This interview has been…