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Becca Stern loved buying vintage lockers, but found they weren’t very practical for home storage.She and her sister, Jess Stern, had often talked about starting a business together and saw an opportunity to reinvent them into something beautiful and functional for people to use in their homes. “Once we made…
Caroline Chambers, Substack’s top cooking creator, doesn’t have time to be online 24/7.”I’m not a TikToker. I am a mother of four,” Chambers, the writer behind the “What To Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking” blog, told Business Insider in an interview.Social media, however, is fueling the growth of…
“Hot Smart Rich” podcaster Maggie Sellers Reum didn’t just get a seven-figure investment from “The Diary of a CEO” star Steven Bartlett — she got a valuable piece of advice from him, too.Sellers Reum said Bartlett helped her deal with her “very dark thoughts” of self-doubt by reminding her that…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Winch, the founder of Clean Lots. The following has been edited for length and clarity.As a young kid, I watched my parents work hard to keep food on the table. What is now called picking up a few side hustles…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Thomas Phillips, 33, a business owner from Southampton, England, who left the UK in 2024 and now lives in Austin, Texas, while running his SEO agency. Phillips is on a E-2 Investor Visa. The following has been edited for length and…
Imagine a family-friendly brand with the initials “TS” that floods the market with bespoke merchandise. Are you thinking of “Toy Story” or Taylor Swift?For now, at least, they’re one and the same. Swift confirmed long-simmering speculation this week when she announced her new single for the “Toy Story 5” soundtrack,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Lankford, the 45-year-old CEO of Lankford Communications, who relocated to Costa Rica. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m the CEO of Lankford Communications, and I live in Jaco, Costa Rica. I formerly lived in Portland and the…
London Glorfield isn’t a Luddite — he just wants tech products to feel a little less soul-sucking.”Tech is a sea of sameness right now,” Glorfield, who goes by London Jackson professionally, told Business Insider in an interview. “It’s so boring.”Young people are hungry for retro tech, especially in the AI…
For a decade, I thought I was doing everything right. I had a few corporate jobs, a predictable salary, and a career path that looked good on paper. From the outside, it probably seemed like I had things figured out.But behind the scenes, I was constantly exhausted, and the work…
Allison and Stephen Ellsworth built Poppi from nothing and sold it to PepsiCo for just under $2 billion last year.They told Business Insider this week about the risks they took and sacrifices they made along the way, and shared how they’re stopping their newfound wealth from spoiling their children.Starting from…
