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YouTuber Markiplier’s movie made over $50 million. Here’s his advice for creators looking to level up.
YouTuber Markiplier thinks more creators can break into Hollywood without giving up control. The 37-year-old put it to the test earlier this year, when he wrote, directed, and starred in the film “Iron Lung.” He funded the movie’s low 7-figure budget himself, and it became a box-office hit that…
I moved away from my home country 6 years ago. When I returned, I felt like an outsider.
I grew up in Mexico City and spent most of my life there. Six years ago, I left the country, first for the US and later for the UK, but I never stopped thinking of my birthplace as the place I ultimately belonged. This summer, I returned after two years away, the longest stretch I
Read the memo: PwC US is planning big changes to its offshore structure in India
PwC US is overhauling its offshore delivery structure in India, bringing its local operations closer to PwC India’s consulting business. The US firm and PwC India plan to form a new joint venture that will merge PwC US’s India-based offshoring hubs — known as Acceleration Centers, or ACs — with PwC…
My listing sat for 4 months. Marketing it as a multigenerational home got 2 offers in a day.
This story is based on an interview with Scheryl W. Glanton, 74, a real estate agent from Philadelphia. It has been edited for length and clarity. It was getting frustrating. Despite at least 20 showings of my listing in suburban Philadelphia, no one made an offer. We put the 5,100-square-foot…
A laid-off Grubhub worker created a tracker to help others find jobs. 18 months later, recruiters are learning from it.
Irvin Thevaranjan was blindsided by his layoff. The day before, the head of governance risk and controls at delivery service Grubhub had a stellar performance review with his boss, who told him that he had lots of opportunities in front of him at the company. Less than a day later, though, he found…
I visited Capital One’s lounge at LaGuardia. I loved the free steak and shrimp, but I’ll do 1 thing differently next time.
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a timely person. Even in higher-stakes situations like flights, my time blindness is hard to overcome. (I’ve definitely gotten to the airport 45 minutes before takeoff on at least one occasion before.) So when I showed up at LaGuardia Airport last week, three…
Sam Altman says this is an ‘ill-advised’ time to IPO, given safety concerns
Sam Altman says now is not a good time. In a Fortune interview that aired on Saturday, OpenAI’s CEO said that “given everything that’s happening with safety,” he doesn’t expect to take his company public this year. “Right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” he said. When Fortune’s…
United Airlines CEO says he sleeps 8 ½ hours a night and limits meetings to ‘no more than 4 hours a day’
Don’t think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck. “If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we’re just going to talk about it, but you’re not going to read slides to me,” Kirby told Semafor’s “CEO Signal” podcast. Kirby is
AI leaders rally around calls to slow things down
The leaders of US AI labs are having a come-together moment. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Saturday that he’s “become convinced” AI needs to pace its development to avert disaster, other AI leaders quickly logged on to endorse the idea. Most notably, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, “I…
Indeed’s CEO wants to break this ‘vicious cycle’ in hiring
Hisayuki Idekoba hears regularly about how broken hiring can feel. As head of the job platform Indeed, job seekers tell him they have applied to roles only to get nothing back, while employers complain about unresponsive candidates and surging application volumes, thanks in part to AI bots that…