Founder
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Diaz Valdez, a 29-year-old based in Spain. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I feel like a relationship with a founder is a relationship on steroids because it’s so intense in the trust and patience it requires. I’ve had to…
Skip the FOMO approach if you’re pitching Nicolas Sauvage.The founder and president of venture capital firm TDK Ventures said founders can’t sway him with claims that other investors are already buying in or that a funding round is quickly filling up.Sauvage told Business Insider that TDK Ventures takes a deliberate…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Thomas Flohr, the 65-year-old founder, chairman, and CEO of VistaJet, based in St. Moritz, Switzerland, about his daily routine. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I started my career at a Chicago-based technology firm in 1985 and rose through the ranks.…
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…
