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Before launching The Savvy Couple in 2016, Kelan Kline had reached a breaking point.He and his wife, Brittany, had recently married, bought a starter home, and begun paying down roughly $40,000 in student loans. Brittany was an elementary school teacher, while Kelan worked as a jail deputy.The couple, who grew…
Zach Oldham, cofounder of the adtech startup Gravity, thinks AI ads will eventually become the world’s largest advertising channel.His company just secured fresh funds to pursue the opportunity he sees in both ads designed to appeal to humans on AI platforms and those targeted at AI bots themselves.Gravity exclusively told…
On a cold morning in Dallas shortly before Christmas last year, CEO Colin Webb watched one of his robots work an eight-hour shift alongside warehouse workers. The wheeled machine, equipped with two robotic arms, spent the day packing beauty products into pouches as part of a pilot.A few miles away,…
Caleb Ashton’s journey into the resale business was, like many who start out in that industry, humble.Ashton began flipping items — textbooks, action figures, golf clubs, sneakers, and more — while living with his wife in a one-bedroom apartment in 2019. He was eager to create an extra source of…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lucy Postins, founder and Chief Integrity Officer at The Honest Kitchen. It has been edited for length and clarity.Back in 2001, my dog, Mosi, kept getting ear infections. I was working for a pet food company at the time in product…
Jersey Mike’s IPO is almost here.The restaurant chain said it expects its shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday using the ticker “JMKE,” according to an SEC filing. The company expects the stock to price between $21 and $25 a share, though investors will get…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, cofounder and CEO of Waterlily. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the biggest,…
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…
A former Formula One engineer left the world’s fastest race cars to tackle a much bigger engineering challenge: teaching robots to work in factories.Now, his Munich-based startup, microagi, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round secured by a German startup. Hummingbird led the round, with participation from Northzone,…
Kirk McKinney was riding bikes near his Massachusetts home about six years ago when he came across a goldmine: A dump filled with plenty of junk, sure, but also speakers and electronics.”Someone had thrown away this perfectly good pair of speakers,” he told Business Insider. “I asked the guy at…
