America
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with small-business-owner Kristina Martinelli, a 56-year-old AI consultant who formerly worked a corporate job. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… Getting displaced at 55 years old caught me completely off guard.I had just spent two years…
The US is missing out on cheap Chinese EVs, but Volvo is open to changing that. Loading audio narration… In an interview on Wednesday, Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson told Business Insider that the Swedish brand would consider building cars from its Chinese parent company, Geely, at its factory in South…
Donald Trump is giving Americans a fair amount of reasons to drink these days — threatening to obliterate Iran, or flirting with a takeover of Greenland. But the president is, perhaps counterintuitively, also part of why people are laying off the booze. Trump’s policies and rhetoric are killing America’s buzz.Americans…
My older brother, Fergus, and I have spent most of our adult lives chasing the same thing — just never in the same place at the same time. Loading audio narration… We’re both adventurous, but our lives have unfolded on different continents since 2009. That was the year he left…
Khartoon Weiss, the former lead executive for TikTok’s North American ads business, is joining Google. Loading audio narration… She’ll serve as vice president of US Mid Market Sales (MMS), Commerce, according to a memo sent to Google employees on Monday.MMS typically handles medium-sized advertising clients for Google. The commerce team…
Sunny Stroeer spent much of her 20s in a male-dominated environment as a management consultant at Bain. She said it wasn’t until she left the corporate world and became an adventure athlete that she experienced such noticeable gender bias. Loading audio narration… She was climbing Aconcagua in Argentina — one…
Three years ago, my partner and I packed everything we owned into a bright yellow campervan and decided to live on the road full-time.Since then, we’ve been to 49 states and nine Canadian provinces and territories, and have experienced once-in-a-lifetime moments along the way.The experience has been overwhelmingly positive so…
