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Critical Role Execs Say This Is How They Built the Brand

When the cameras start rolling at the Critical Role studio in Los Angeles, Ed Lopez and Ben Van Der Fluit are never in front of them.There are eight far more famous faces that front the operation. Critical Role’s cofounders, a team of self-professed nerdy voice actors, have been streaming their…

How This Writer Went From Critical Role Fan to Prime Video Showrunner

Tasha Huo and I don’t make it a minute into our conversation before we start gushing about wizards — and that’s how I know I’m talking to a true Critical Role fan.Huo is the showrunner of “The Mighty Nein,” Critical Role’s second animated series with Prime Video. “The Mighty Nein”…

Critical Role on the 3 Big Challenges They Faced Making ‘Mighty Nein’

The eight cofounders of the nerdworld business Critical Role came roaring back to Prime Video with the November debut of “The Mighty Nein.”The business’s eight cofounders first started out streaming their home “Dungeons & Dragons” game on Twitch. Then, in 2019, CR raised seed funding of over $11.3 million to…

The Former Chief AI Officer at GM Describes the CAIO Role

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Barak Turovsky, the former Chief AI Officer at General Motors, based in Silicon Valley. He also held executive roles at Google and Cisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I have worked on AI and LLMs since 2014 —…

Amazon Job Search Success: How Rethinking My Strategy Landed Me a Role

This ‘as-told-to’ essay is based on a conversation with Jugal Bhatt, a 24-year-old software engineer at Amazon based in Phoenix. Business Insider has verified his employment with documentation. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.Eight months before graduation, I began searching for a software engineering role. I thought…

CorePower Yoga CEO Shares Why the Role Is Her Dream Job

Before becoming the CEO of CorePower Yoga, Niki Leondakis led three hotel companies and worked as the CEO of Equinox.Roughly a year into her tenure at Equinox, she stepped down after her home burned down in a wildfire. Then, exactly a year after that, her husband died of a sudden…

Larry Summers Is Leaving His Teaching Role at Harvard University

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is leaving his role as an instructor at Harvard University after more ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein surfaced last week.”His co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching with them this semester, and he is not…