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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Allison Strumeyer, cofounder and CEO of doublesoul. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, I had a side hustle selling T-shirts. I would connect with local artists to feature their work and sell the shirts on campus. I also did pitch competitions with my now-husband, Ben. I’ve always felt very native to entrepreneurship, and I knew I wanted to start my own business.Yet, when I graduated, I chose to work at BlackRock. It was intentional: I believed working with a global…

Luigi Mangione appears for a pretrial hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on Aug. 11. Steven Hirsch/Pool New York Post hide caption toggle caption Steven Hirsch/Pool New York Post Federal prosecutors and Luigi Mangione’s defense team will hold a special court conference Friday morning in Manhattan federal court, raising intense speculation that the two sides may have reached a plea agreement. The two sides requested the surprise hearing before Judge Margaret Garnett less than a month before Mangione’s state trial is set to begin. Asked about the purpose of the session at a press conference Wednesday, the U.S.…

A 1996 McLaren F1 GTR.Crystal Lau | CNBCA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The classic car auctions in Monterey could reach a record $500 million this week, as the tech boom and a wave of new collectors drive up the prices of modern supercars.The auctions during Monterey Car Week, the annual extravaganza of classic car auctions, shows, races and awards, are expected to reach $470 million to $500 million, according to Hagerty. The total is…

Caution: Spoilers for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” ahead.With great power comes great responsibility — that’s the iconic mantra that’s been at the heart of Spider-Man since his introduction in 1962.But in 2026, should that great power include the ability to run a mass surveillance program on the people of New York City, with nothing more than a quip to explain it?If you go by the events of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” in theaters now, in which Spider-Man (Tom Holland) uses illegal facial recognition technology to identify both Scorpion (Michael Mando), a criminal, and Jean Grey (Sadie Sink), a telepathic mutant running…

Giorgos Tsetis, co-founder and former CEO of Nutrafol.Courtsey of Giorgos TsetisA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Family offices are built to be patient with their portfolios, investing with generational wealth in mind. Giorgos Tsetis is not. Through his family office, Great Things, the co-founder of Nutrafol backs high-flying startups at a quick pace and allocates at least 20% of annual net realized profits to philanthropy. Over the past 18 months, he has invested nearly $40 million…

As a social worker, Scott Steenbergh never seemed to be able to clock out.”The hours were always tough,” the Michigan-based investor and father of two told Business Insider. “It seemed like, no matter what, I was always required to work in the evenings, work on weekends. People were obviously in crisis, and I want to help, but I also wanted to be able to be present with my kids.”Real estate investing seemed like a possible path to more time freedom.Steenbergh and his wife, Rebecca, had a little experience — they owned their primary residence and had become part owners of…

The mountainous pressure of NYC hustle culture and a sprinkle of delusion are among the ingredients Mohuya Khan said led her to become a business owner and content creator at 27.In 2025, she earned around $130,000, and after taxes and expenses, she took home around $70,000.Looking back, she doesn’t know if she would do it again.This native New Yorker lives in Queens — the same borough where she was born to Bangladeshi parents — and has supported her day-to-day life through nine streams of income, all while working from her one-bedroom apartment she rents for $3,000 in Astoria, which she…

What’s confusing you about your student loans?Over the past year, Business Insider has heard from over 1,000 student-loan borrowers who described challenges, concerns, and confusion related to President Donald Trump’s student-loan repayment changes.The changes, which included new repayment plans and borrowing caps, took effect July 1. The transition, however, has not been seamless — borrowers have faced incorrect bills, confusing servicer notices, and paperwork backlogs that have made it difficult to budget their lives.Here are some of the key things student-loan borrowers have expressed confusion over in the new repayment environment.The SAVE planPresident Donald Trump eliminated the Biden-era SAVE plan…

You’ve been imagining this moment for a while. Maybe spent weeks having long, potentially tough conversations in preparation. Now, it’s finally time to pop the question:”Will you be my cofounder?”Interest in entrepreneurship appears to be rising in the US, with new business applications already up by more than 450,000 in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to the US Census Bureau.If a founder’s startup feels like their baby, their cofounder may very well feel like a spouse. Once they’ve chosen that special someone, setting the right guardrails for that partnership is crucial. In…

Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham is back at the startup accelerator this week, talking with founders about the challenges they’re facing — including how to make time for family.Graham said on X on Wednesday that it’s one of the most common questions he gets from founders of “big, established YC companies.””It’s a hard problem,” Graham wrote. “But worth solving; arguably no problem is more worth solving.”When an X user asked what advice he gives founders who raise the issue, Graham’s answer was simple: “The most important thing is not to ignore the question. You can’t get those years back.”Graham also…