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“If you can’t raise a dog, you cannot run an office.”That was the message Nico Laqua, cofounder and CEO of buzzy insurance startup Corgi, sent to staff in the New York office about one of the company’s short-legged mascots. A vet had told the employees that the puppy, Hamilton, should…
As CEO of language-learning startup Preply, Kirill Bigai said he’s spending much of his time these days building out his team.”This quarter, I’m spending 50% to 60% of my time on hiring,” Bigai told Business Insider.Bigai, who cofounded the company in 2012, said Preply is scaling quickly and bringing on…
Brent Franson spent four years building a mental-health app that users liked, but that didn’t ultimately work as a business.The product wasn’t an obvious flop. It had enough promise, he said, to make further rounds of changes seem worthwhile — the trap of something that seemed “pretty good,” though ultimately…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Waters, a former Google employee who was laid off last November. The 42-year-old cofounded Kanawai AI and lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.In November 2025, I was on a flight to Los Angeles…
A small AI startup used Claude to hack into OpenAI’s internal codebase shortly after the OpenAI Hugging Face hack.Zayne Zhang, the cofounder and CEO of Hacktron, told Business Insider that his research team has begun investigating security vulnerabilities at frontier AI companies like OpenAI to determine whether they have gaps…
OpenAI has been signaling for months that it wants a bigger foothold in the legal industry. A new partnership offers a clue as to how it plans to get there: not just by selling models and software, but by sending people to help customers actually use them.Telon, a London startup,…
When investor Alex Ren visited the office of AI insurance upstart Corgi early last year, he was given a copy of a little red book emblazoned with a portrait of the company’s namesake dog wearing a Mao-like red hat with a yellow star.It was called: “The Mission at Corgi.”Business Insider…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Julie Zhu, a 29-year-old entrepreneur in New York City who left Apple last year to focus on her startup, Odd One In. The following has been edited for length and clarity.A few years ago, I started considering leaving my job at…
Hebbia helped popularize AI for Wall Street. Now it’s trying to stay ahead of the companies chasing the massive opportunity.The startup, one of the earliest companies to use AI to analyze large collections of financial documents, is overhauling its flagship product as larger rivals like Harvey and Rogo crowd one…
Artificial intelligence was supposed to kill software-as-a-service. Linear didn’t get the memo.The startup behind a popular product management tool has doubled its valuation to $2.5 billion and surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, defying the ongoing narrative that AI will make traditional software companies obsolete.”I think the narrative is…
