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Tattoos, company logos, and deleted apologies — oh my.A Y Combinator-backed startup founder is in hot water after saying his company would offer job interviews to anyone who got a tattoo of its logo at a party in San Francisco last weekend.Jordan Zietz, the cofounder of the small AI automation…
A piece of fast food history is up for auction in Shelbyville, Kentucky.Blackwood Hall, the longtime home of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders and his wife, Claudia Sanders, is up for sealed-bid auction by The Menish Group until July 31. The home is listed alongside Claudia Sanders Dinner House, a…
Progress Software agreed to buy Domo’s AI and data business for $400 million, ending a tumultuous chapter for tech executive Josh James. It’s not the end, though.Progress, a public software company with a $1.5 billion valuation, will buy almost all of Domo’s operations and employees and assume some of its…
Yang Zhilin is having his moment in the sun right now.The 34-year-old cofounder of the Chinese firm Moonshot AI has been dubbed a “millennial genius” after the launch of his new Kimi K3 model this month, which sent shockwaves across the AI industry.But years before he cofounded Moonshot AI in 2023…
The founder of China’s hottest AI startup du jour is having a main character moment.Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, is going viral on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Chinese fans of the executive are calling him a “millennial genius” after his new Kimi K3…
There’s a founder making waves in the AI industry that’s not an American tech billionaire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei.Yang Zhilin is the 34-year-old researcher and entrepreneur behind the Chinese company Moonshot AI and its new open-weight Kimi K3 AI model, which seized Silicon Valley’s attention this…
Jonathan Ross, Groq’s former CEO, says his steep learning curve as a founder came at a hefty cost.”I was a terrible leader. I was one of the world’s worst leaders when I started,” Ross said on an episode of the “Founders” podcast released on Sunday. He recounted his management mistakes…
Some say the American dream is fading, but for Aravind Srinivas, the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity, the US is still the land of opportunity.On an episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” published on July 1, Srinivas said America’s startup ecosystem enables people to turn risky business ideas into success…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dominic Imwalle, the founder of DxConsulting, which focuses on one-on-one career coaching with professionals seeking $100K+ roles. Imwalle also runs a newsletter called “Conversations > Applications,” which discusses how to create purposeful conversations for job opportunities. Imwalle was formerly a senior…
