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Nico Laqua said he’d rather shave years off his life than see his startup fail.He cofounded Corgi, an AI insurance company, in 2024. Corgi became a unicorn in May, raising its Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation — before raising a Series B1 round at a $2.6 billion valuation…

My daughter was four months into her freshman year of college when I realized she had never asked me for any money.I’d paid for Sarina’s housing, meal plan, and books, and put $100 on her account for laundry and incidentals at the beginning of the year. But that was it.It…

At Anthropic’s developer conference last week, I ran into Guillermo Rauch, CEO of AI startup Vercel. We started chatting, and the first company he mentioned wasn’t Anthropic; it was Google. Loading audio narration… Overall, demand for AI is off the charts, he said. But Google’s models, in particular, are in…

This interview is based on a conversation with Glen Wagner, 68, a retired pastor from Chicago. who now runs an executive coaching firm. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When I was about 7 years old, I tried out for a kids’ football team, and…