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Genesis is, by now, a nearly 20-year-old name.When Ted Mengiste joined the Hyundai brand five years ago as an executive director of sales operations, he described the internal workings of Genesis as “ground floor.”His team was about 37 people, Mengiste told Business Insider, and along the way, he had to…
Another AI company wants to get its hands on Spirit Airlines’ data.Ali Ansari, 25, the founder and CEO of Micro1, a startup that helps train AI models, told Business Insider that his firm is making a “materially higher” offer for Spirit Airlines’ data after Google successfully bid $10 million for…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Josh Hou, 22, who left his job as an investment banking analyst at Evercore to co-found Ren, an app that helps users determine how specific interventions, like specific supplements, are affecting their health by running experiments on the body. This interview…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Shen, the 40-year-old founder of Refactor Labs based in Brooklyn. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m the founder and CEO of Refactor Labs, an executive coach, and a cofounder conflict expert.I spent two years at Etsy as a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Cabral Menezes, 27, who founded the brand WashWise, a “dry shampoo for clothes” that refreshes items between washes. WashWise raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding, as it announced on August 10. Backers range from people in the laundry industry, like…
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…
There are pitch decks, then there are Jeff Dean pitch decks.Google’s departing chief scientist shared slides for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, on X on Wednesday — and they include a list of achievements any founder would be envious of.One slide lists products the founding team helped build or…
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,…
