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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rick Neuhoff, 65, a homeowner in Portland, Oregon, who rents out his indoor pool using Swimply. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Before COVID got bad, I was doing marketing for law firms. COVID had pretty much killed my business, because the lawyers didn’t want to expand their portfolio because the courts were closed.So I was at home, and I was stuck.For a little while, I was driving for DoorDash. One day, my wife was actually accompanying me while I was delivering, and we saw on our doorbell video…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 23-year-old Careb Bien-Aime, who is attending New York University. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m an information systems management major at NYU, after studying at a community college.I worked as a home health aide for a few years during college. My mom is a certified nursing assistant and introduced me to the job. I’m also very familiar with this line of work because it’s really big in the Haitian community, which I’m part of.I was looking for work with flexible hours while in community college that would still…

Two miles north of Philadelphia’s World Cup games sits a small but mighty mecca of small businesses attempting to reap the benefits of international soccer fandom.In East Passyunk, dozens of independently owned businesses — trinket shops, dive bars, cafés, pizza joints, breweries, and more — line the main thoroughfare of East Passyunk Avenue. They’re used to a steady flow of locals, but are typically less on-the-radar for tourists visiting Philly’s most popular monuments, said Katie Hanford, the executive director of the East Passyunk Business Improvement District, also known as EPABID. Supérette installed a second television to prepare for the World…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hamza Mostafa, 21, who lives in San Francisco. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up, I wanted to work in the medical field like most of my family did. But after taking a computer science class in high school, my ambitions changed.While I studied software engineering at university in Canada, I made it my mission to get to San Francisco, where everyone in the field dreams of landing a job. To me, if you want to make it in tech and learn from the best, you have to…

Dan Ives is taking his bullishness to a new level.Ives, a tech analyst known for his AI conviction as much as his neon wardrobe, has left Wedbush Securities to form a “modern merchant bank” focused on AI, technology, and infrastructure. He’s partnering with the broker-dealer Yorkville Securities to form Yorkville Ives, where he’ll be a partner and senior managing director. The bank will combine investment banking, equity research, institutional trading, and principal investment, according to an announcement.Business Insider caught up with Ives on Wednesday afternoon to talk about the new venture, which he predicted will eventually be “disrupting Wall Street”…

Warren Buffett is worried.The legendary investor called out reckless speculation in markets and the massive cost of the AI buildout during a rare interview with CNBC on Wednesday.”It’s tough to find values when everybody is preferring gambling,” the famously disciplined bargain hunter said.Berkshire Hathaway’s 95-year-old chairman, who stepped down as CEO at the turn of the year, said it’s been hard to find good deals for years now because the market has shifted in favor of speculators.He said that “humans love to gamble so much, there’s more money in actually cultivating gamblers than there is in cultivating investors.”Business Insider reached out to…

Sebastian Robison, 39, lives near Brisbane, Australia, and was laid off from an auditing job in late November. After hunting for a new role for about six months, Robison and his wife decided he should stay home to care for their sons. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.For seven years, I’d worked a job in assurance and auditing. One day at the end of last year, my boss and I sat down for our weekly meeting. He looked up at me with a bit of a pained look and said, “Seb, I’m really sorry. We’re making your…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Max Votek, the cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes, an enterprise consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies implement AI. This essay has been edited for length and clarity.Companies are rushing to blame layoffs on artificial intelligence. But from where I sit, advising Fortune 500 companies on AI adoption, that’s often not the whole story.I’m the cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes, a 1,000-person consulting firm that helps enterprises implement AI. Before that, I spent nearly a decade in the pharmaceutical industry leading technology transformation projects. I work with CFOs, CIOs,…

ICE agents stand guard outside a immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey in May 2026. Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people with ICE, who then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings. Adam Gray/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Adam Gray/Getty Images After Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people in January with immigration officials, ICE then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings. Palantir operates an app called ELITE that is used by ICE agents to show the addresses…

Taylor Farms, a Taco Bell lettuce supplier, has been linked to a five-state cyclosporiasis outbreak.Taylor Farms, founded by Bruce Taylor and several partners in 1995, is a California-based fresh produce company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise with more than 24,000 employees and 22 production locations across North America.The privately held company supplies packaged salads, fresh-cut vegetables, meal kits, and other prepared foods to grocery stores, restaurants, and food-service customers. Its products have also been connected to previous foodborne illness investigations, including outbreaks involving salad mix and onions served on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers.Federal officials have linked shredded iceberg…