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Ex-Meta and Google Employee Quit to Build AI Startup, Shares Advice

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason White, a 46-year-old startup founder in the San Jose area. Business Insider has verified his former employment with documentation. His words have been edited for length and clarity.I’ve spent half of my 20 years in the tech industry working at…

Advice for Employers Amid ICE Raids, From an Immigration Lawyer

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Loan Huynh, an attorney who serves as the chair of the immigration department at Frederickson & Byron, a law firm based in Minneapolis. The following has been edited for length and clarity.These are not normal times.There’s a huge concentration of ICE…

Quant Execs From Cubist and D.E. Shaw Share Career Advice for Success

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer.With top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms in expansion mode — and increasingly encroaching on the same turf — the mathematicians, physicists, data scientists, and engineers who power them are in high demand.The emergence of AI labs, which can outbid even…

A Google AI Product Manager’s Career Advice: ‘Be a Crab’

A Google AI product manager’s career advice is unexpectedly crustacean.Marily Nika, who has worked in AI product roles for over a decade, said in an episode of “The Growth Podcast” by Aakash Gupta published Sunday that aspiring product managers should “be like crabs.””That means that you need to move adjacent…

Microsoft Excel World Champ’s Top Advice for Office Workers

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Diarmuid Early, the 40-year-old winner of the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been in the Excel business for about 20 years.I played around with it a little bit in college and started using it…