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Skip the FOMO approach if you’re pitching Nicolas Sauvage.The founder and president of venture capital firm TDK Ventures said founders can’t sway him with claims that other investors are already buying in or that a funding round is quickly filling up.Sauvage told Business Insider that TDK Ventures takes a deliberate approach to investing, conducting what he calls a “deep exploration” of a chosen discipline before making a decision.The firm, founded in 2019, manages $500 million across four funds and invests in tech entrepreneurs. The team rigorously challenges its own assumptions before committing capital, he said.”We are protecting ourselves, thanks to…

Get better at: Giving hard feedbackToday’s moveDitch the compliment sandwich and try this three-step framework for providing feedback. First, offer praise for something they’re doing well.Next, be direct about the issue you want to address.Then, provide a specific suggestion for how to improve.Why it worksEtiquette experts Daniel Post Senning and Lizzie Post said that the classic compliment sandwich isn’t necessarily the most effective way to give feedback.However, if you end the conversation by offering a specific suggestion, rather than a compliment, you’re helping them understand how to improve and and feedback becomes constructive.A 2022 study published by the American Psychological…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lauryn Bosstick, the 40-year-old founder and CEO of The Skinny Confidential, based in Austin. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Before founding The Skinny Confidential, I was bartending five to six nights a week while in college full-time. I also taught Pure Barre and Pilates.I was doing what you were “supposed” to do, but it wasn’t lighting me up. I was beating to the tune of what society told me I should do, and I felt incredibly entrepreneurial yet didn’t know what to do.I started The Skinny Confidential as a lifestyle…

What do Kim Jong Un, Ayatollah Khamenei, and MrBeast have in common?They all have such control over their fiefdoms that they’ve been called “Supreme Leader.”In the case of MrBeast, YouTube’s top star with over 500 million subscribers, the moniker came courtesy of a prospective investor.The financier wanted to add “key man insurance” to a MrBeast fundraising term sheet to hedge against fallout if the company lost its leading man. Adding the insurance would be “standard and obvious when a biz is led by a supreme leader” such as MrBeast, he wrote in an email viewed by Business Insider.MrBeast was also…

Delivery vans are parked outside the main United States Postal Service headquarters in northeast Denver on July 28. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption toggle caption David Zalubowski/AP The U.S. Postal Service has been building a new system to carry out President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting, including an online portal for states to submit voter information before absentee ballots go into the mail. An anonymous federal official says the system was rushed and could keep ballots from reaching eligible voters on time. As part of the ongoing legal fight over Trump’s mail voting order, a federal judge has temporarily blocked…

Ikea’s operators are betting more than a billion dollars on slashing the prices of some of its most popular products.Ikea’s largest franchise owner, Ingka Group, said Tuesday it would invest 1.2 billion euros, or about $1.39 billion, with other Ikea franchises and the Inter Ikea Group to lower prices for consumers across Europe.In Germany, more than 1,500 Ikea products will have their prices lowered by 20%, per the group’s press release. Customers in the UK will see prices for Ikea’s iconic Billy bookcase drop by 28%, and Italian customers will get a 29% price cut on Ikea’s modular Kallax storage…

President Donald Trump’s popularity in Hollywood may soon take a turn for the better.Trump voiced support for a federal tax incentive for movies and TV made in the US. The plan came after conversations with Jon Voight, whom the president appointed as his “Special Ambassador to Hollywood.””I am going to suggest that Republicans and Democrats get together, and immediately craft Legislation to save the Movie, Television, and Entertainment Business in America,” Trump wrote on social media on Monday night.A tax credit for films and TV shows made domestically could give a huge boost to Hollywood, which has been hindered by…

Owner Stan Kroenke of the Denver Nuggets stands on the court before game four of the Nuggets’ NBA Playoffs series against the Minnesota Timberwolves at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Aaron Ontiveroz | Denver Post | Getty ImagesStan Kroenke has added a Major League Baseball team to his growing sports empire, agreeing to purchase a controlling stake in the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from the Moreno family, according to a release.The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027. Terms were not disclosed. “The Angels are a storied franchise anchored…

After a burst of home buying during the pandemic drove home prices through the roof, the US housing market is in a strange place in 2026.Mortgage rates are high, but that’s done little to help prices pull back. Amid this week’s bond market tantrum, the 30-year mortgage rate has jumped to about 6.89% on Tuesday, according to Mortgage News Daily’s survey. Many homeowners are locked into their low rates from the pandemic, while buyers are stuck navigating a pricey market that’s just barely budged from all-time high.Apollo’s Torsten Sløk on Tuesday shared the firm’s updated US housing market outlook, and…

A majority of Americans hear themselves in Dolly Parton’s “9-to-5.”Sixty percent of Americans identify as working class, according to a Pew Research analysis of a January 2026 survey. That’s up from 54% in 2024.And the label, historically applied to lower-earning workers, resonates across earnings levels. Middle-income families, who make between $51,900 to $155,600 depending on family size and location, identify especially with the term “working class.” More surprisingly, half of high-income families, who earn more than $155,600, identify that way. That could be because the term itself is ambiguous: As the analysis notes, there’s no one clear definition of working…