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Ari Brojde thought his grandmother’s estate would be easy, but it took nearly three years to settle.Brojde and his cousin invented software to help streamline estate administration.Talking ahead of time and getting iron-clad legal directives can speed up estate settlement, he said. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation…
Michael Johnston was making six figures in a remote job he enjoyed when his second child was born.He fell in love with full-time parenting and his wife, a successful editor, was keen to keep working.The couple’s move from California to Maine meant they could afford living off one income. This…
Mike Manalac is an account manager who struggled to balance his ambitious career with family life.He chose a work-life balance over salary but his goal of starting a family was still out of reach.Manalac relocated from the Bay Area to Chicago for lower living costs and finally started a family.…
A senior Two Sigma quant researcher is leaving for Cubist.Kan Huang co-led a key machine-learning unit known as techniques forecasting.Jin Choi, Huang’s interim cohead, has been named sole head of the long-running techniques group. A senior leader in one of Two Sigma’s key research units is leaving the firm for…
Multiple Tesla executives announced they are leaving or have left over the past week.Several of the executives had worked at Tesla for nearly a decade or more.Tesla is set to unveil its Robotaxi on Thursday. Tesla has been shedding executives ahead of its Robotaxi event, with four of Elon Musk’s…
OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving the company.And within hours, two more OpenAI execs joined the list of high-profile departures, marking another major shake-up for the leading AI company.After six-and-a-half years at the company, including temporarily serving as its CEO after cofounder Sam Altman was briefly ousted, Murati…
Kate Jhaveri, TikTok’s head of global marketing, is leaving the company this month as part of a leadership shake-up, according to an internal memo shared with staffers.The company is phasing out Jhaveri’s role and beginning on Monday, everyone in TikTok’s global brand and communications division will report solely to Zenia…
The group will consist only of independent board members, providing relief to critics who questioned if the committee could really serve its function as a watchdog if its CEO was part of it. Bret Taylor, OpenAI’s chair, has also stepped down from the committee.The committee was first formed in May,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chad Willardson, a 45-year-old entrepreneur, investor, and author in Orange County, California. It has been edited for length and clarity.In 2011, I left my job at Merrill Lynch after nine years to start Pacific Capital, a wealth management firm for entrepreneurs…
Ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are drawing the US military’s focus and risk leaving the US Navy without any aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific, which is home to a major US rival and longtime foes.The only US carrier in the area is on its way to the…
