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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…
James Bond films track the agent’s vagabond lifestyle, spending one night in London and the next in Montenegro. But if Bond could settle down, he might choose this mansion in Delray Beach, Florida.Villa Skyfall, a newly constructed, about 23,000-square-foot home in Delray Beach, about 20 miles south of Palm Beach,…
As anyone who went to Cannes Lions last month knows, the appetite for in-person gatherings is going strong. Vendelux, a live events information platform, has raised $50 million to help marketers capitalize on that.Tribeca Venture Partners led the company’s Series B raise, with S3, Pelion Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, FirstMark, and…
After years helping Apple bring products from prototype to production, two former executives are betting the next AI boom won’t happen on screens but rather on on factory floors.Simon Lancaster and Sabrina Paseman’s new firm, Omni Ventures, has raised $33 million to write $700,000 to $1 million checks into pre-seed…
AI is coming for millions of American jobs, but that doesn’t mean the work will disappear for good.Joseph Briggs, who leads the global economics team at Goldman Sachs Research, said on a recent episode of the bank’s “Exchanges” podcast that he expects about 9% of the US workforce to be…
Alex Karp has added to the growing list of billionaires buying large pieces of land for personal residences.The Palantir Technologies cofounder and CEO spent $120 million on a 3,720-acre ranch in Snowmass, Colorado — a ski town 15 miles north of Aspen.Karp, who’s worth $11.7 billion as of June 23,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bo and Emily Petterson, of Dad Advice From Bo. It has been edited for length and clarity.Parents aren’t supposed to have a favorite child, but there’s no secret that Emily has always been mine. She’s the second youngest of my six…
