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Quitting Big Tech to Build a Company Is Hard, but I’m More Fulfilled

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 41-year-old Srikanth Narayan, the CEO and founder of Cache, from the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My career began in San Francisco. I’ve been in Silicon Valley ever since, working at both startups…

Robot Maker Said the Ukraine War Led It to Make Big Changes

A military robotics company based in a NATO country bordering Russia says battlefield use of its machines in Ukraine provided valuable insight that led it to rethink its technology and how it could better meet wartime demands.Estonia’s Milrem Robotics makes autonomous ground robots that can be used to gather intelligence,…

Trump Hush-Money Appeal Argued by Big Law’s Sullivan & Cromwell

President Donald Trump has assembled his most illustrious legal team yet.In a court hearing Wednesday morning, they made their debut.Jeffrey Wall, a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell who briefly served as solicitor general in Trump’s first term, arrived at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that the sweeping powers…

Inside Amazon’s Big Grocery Reorg: New Leaders Integrate Whole Foods

Amazon is integrating Whole Foods more deeply into its core business, in a major reorganization that it hopes will reinvigorate its grocery business under new leadership.In an internal memo last week, Whole Foods CEO and Amazon VP of Worldwide Grocery Jason Buechel explained how the restructuring will bring the two…

Universal’s New Theme Park Has a Big Problem: Epic Universe

I’ve lived in Orlando, the “Theme Park Capital of the World,” for over 25 years.In that time, I’ve already gone on thousands of visits to the area’s attractions, from Disney World to Universal Orlando. So, I was pumped when Universal debuted Epic Universe, Florida’s first new theme park in years.Even…

Ex Big Tech Leader Says Soft Skills Are More Important Than Hard Ones

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jennifer Dulski, the CEO of Rising Team, from the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve held several leadership positions in Big Tech. I was the director of product management for Google Shopping from…

Netflix of Anime Giving Small Anime-Inspired Fashion Brand Big Break

In 2021, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlanta-based game concept artist Jasmine James was trying to stay creative.James, who runs the Instagram cosplay account Cutiepiesensei with over 500,000 followers, realized there wasn’t much practical, anime-inspired clothing in the market. Anime-inspired fashion, she told Business Insider, was largely restricted…

Elon Musk Rips Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ As a ‘Disgusting Abomination’

Elon Musk is unloading on President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” like never before.”I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on X on Tuesday afternoon. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.””Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did…

OpenAI Engineer: Students Should Intern at Both Big Tech and Startups

Janvi Kalra, an engineer at OpenAI, thinks students should diversify their experiences after college, with at least one internship at a Big Tech firm and another at a startup.That way, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, you have a better idea of what career path you…