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Before Britt Baker and Laurie-Anne King even launched their financial-education business, they had $40,000 in sales.”That whole idea of sell it before you build it really worked for us,” Baker told Business Insider.After finishing Harvard Business School and moving back to the Bay Area, Baker joined a women’s circle. At the meetings, she kept hearing the same question: “What should I do with my money?”It prompted her and King, who had met years earlier while working at the same consulting firm, to host informal money meetups in people’s living rooms — “kind of like book clubs for money,” Baker said.The…

Cybersecurity may be AI’s next big jobs boom.Box CEO Aaron Levie recently posted on X that AI for cybersecurity “is about to go vertical” as models become increasingly capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.That, he told Business Insider, could make cybersecurity “one of the hottest, if not the hottest, job categories.”As threats multiply, companies need systems that can prioritize alerts, investigate risk, recommend fixes, and automate remediation. Humans, Levie said, will remain responsible for oversight and the highest-stakes decisions.The CEO said he expects “massive” investments in the space, both in the technology itself and in the “expert operators” needed to…

A voter casts her ballot in Colorado’s primary election at the Central Library on June 30 in Denver. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Paul López, Denver’s clerk and recorder overseeing elections, has noticed voters have a new concern this year. “Every single meeting I have, there’s somebody that asks the question, ‘What can we do if federal agents are at the polls?'” López said. Federal interference at the polls is against the law. But it is increasingly a scenario López and other voting officials and civil rights groups are planning for and trying to prevent,…

Taboola is expanding its empire.The adtech company exclusively told CMO Insider it has made an offer to acquire Dianomi, a fellow adtech firm specializing in the finance space.Similar to Taboola, Dianomi offers an ad network that places sponsored-content widgets across publisher websites.The acquisition, announced Friday, would help Taboola gain relationships with major publishers such as CNN Business, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters — partners it doesn’t currently work with. Advertisers that work with Dianomi include big names like Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and Invesco.Taboola has agreed to acquire Dianomi for £19 million, or approximately $25.4 million, in cash,…

Oprah Winfrey, 72, said she made a career decision she knew was wrong, simply because she didn’t want to disappoint others.Speaking on Thursday’s episode of “The Mel Robbins Podcast,” Winfrey reflected on the difficult early years of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.Winfrey launched OWN in January 2011, months before “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended its 25-year run in May that year. The network struggled with low ratings and later made highly publicized layoffs, including 30 staff cuts in March 2012.”2012 was one of the worst years of my life,” Winfrey said. “Every single story headline about me was ‘Oprah and the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kang “Kay” Soo-il, a 39-year-old South Korean national who quit his job and traveled, before returning home to run a farm. It has been edited for length and clarity.Eight years ago, at 31, I was living in a Korean city south of Seoul, and working as a software developer and designer for Samsung Electronics. Burned out, I texted my friends, “I’m quitting my job to travel the world!”Lily, then my childhood friend, who’s now my wife, replied: “I’m also quitting my job.” At the time, she was working as a flight…

ICE agent Christian Castro gets in a vehicle surrounded by journalists after leaving the Cameron County Detention Center in Brownsville, Texas. Michael Gonzalez/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Gonzalez/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro made his first appearance in state court in Minneapolis today in connection with the shooting of a Venezuelan man last January during a surge that brought thousands of federal agents to the Twin Cities area. Castro, handcuffed and in an orange jumpsuit, said very little during the hearing. He did, however, sign a pre-waiver of extradition, agreeing to immediately return to Minnesota if he…

In December 1892, Lizzie Borden was arrested on suspicion of killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet in their Fall River, Massachusetts, home.Nearly 10 months after her arrest, Borden was acquitted of the crimes, in part because prosecutors lacked physical evidence linking her to the killings. No one else was charged in connection with the murders, and more than a century later, the case remains unsolved.The crime has inspired countless adaptations, including Netflix’s “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s anthology series, which premieres September 17.While the story continues to draw audiences,…

Once famous for its ties to business schools, McKinsey is casting a wider net to meet its needs.For decades, an MBA was one of the clearest routes into elite consulting. As AI changes the work firms do for clients, the consulting industry is looking for people who can build technology as well as devise the corporate strategy around it.”Our recruiting changed dramatically in the last few years. We recruit from places we haven’t recruited before,” Ben Ellencweig, who leads McKinsey’s AI arm, QuantumBlack, told Business Insider. “Today many, many of our colleagues are coming from non-MBA backgrounds, and then technology…

Comcast’s Universal is going ahead with plans to show a new Elon Musk documentary in theaters outside the US, the company says.The reason that’s news is that a recent story from The Hollywood Reporter said that Universal was having second thoughts about releasing “Musk,” which is highly critical of the mogul. The story suggests that Universal was worried about blowback because it was “politically sensitive for parts of the Trump administration.”Here’s what Universal rep Evan Langweiler told me. “The studio remains committed to releasing it in theaters internationally. We’re currently working through a release strategy,” he said Thursday afternoon.Universal acquired…