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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nathan Bennett, co-founder of Crux Analytics. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my brother started asking me more and more questions about the financial technology company he wanted to start, I could see where things were heading. Jacob’s great…
Sometimes, the US government’s concerns that a powerful new tech product could fall into the wrong hands can be a marketing opportunity. Just look at Steve Jobs and Apple back in 1999.In August of that year, Jobs, who was then Apple’s interim-CEO, took the stage to unveil the company’s new…
Becca Stern loved buying vintage lockers, but found they weren’t very practical for home storage.She and her sister, Jess Stern, had often talked about starting a business together and saw an opportunity to reinvent them into something beautiful and functional for people to use in their homes. “Once we made…
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be alone in the middle of the Agafay Desert, surrounded by strangers and riding camels, I would have thought you were crazy.As someone who spends all her time with family and friends, I rarely do things solo. But since graduating…
My partner was laid off in January of last year. Hundreds of applications later, he’d only landed two interviews with no job offers. Loading audio narration… We had managed to stay optimistic during the job search, using the time to travel and see family, but our positive attitudes began to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rob Cesternino, 47, who appeared on “Survivor: The Amazon” in 2003 and “Survivor: All Stars” in 2004. He went on to launch his podcast, “Rob Has a Podcast,” in 2010 and has since expanded it into a network with dozens of…
Last summer, my family of four traveled to Scandinavia, visiting Denmark and Norway, and nearby Iceland. Loading audio narration… One of the highlights of the trip was renting a private floating sauna on a Norwegian fjord in the small town of Flam. I wasn’t sure what my two middle-school-aged boys…
For years, Kristy Shen and her husband, Bryce Leung, chased the dream of homeownership. Loading audio narration… “We were desperately trying to buy a house,” Shen told Business Insider.Having grown up in poverty in China, she was initially more comfortable putting money into a home than into the stock market.”My…
Welcome to the Hoshiverse, where one 29-year-old man can’t stop, won’t stop working. Loading audio narration… Hoshi is one of the 13 members of the K-pop supergroup Seventeen. Since his teen years, he’s been better known by his stage name and the tiger paw symbol he throws up whenever he…
