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In side-by-side photos recorded by a doorbell camera, two federal agents in blue jackets are seen on David Streever’s porch at his home in Rochester, N.Y. on June 23, 2026. David Streever hide caption toggle caption David Streever Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations tried to track down Rochester resident David Streever last month and give him a warning notice alleging that he had potentially violated the law when he wrote a harsh email months earlier to the former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression on…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with CJ Gustafson, founder of Mostly Metrics and CEO of Mostly Media. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I walk into a bakery, I’m not debating what kind of treat I want. Instead, I’m thinking about how many muffins they need to sell to keep the lights on. I’ve always been wired that way. I enjoyed writing too, but got into finance because I wanted to make money.I landed in the startup space, helping scale tech companies. I was the one who budgeted for the rest of the organization, figuring…

Dan Sundheim is on a roll.D1 Capital’s public equity book returned roughly 10% in June, a person close to the manager told Business Insider.That put the fund at 25.7% through 2026’s first half, the person added — outperforming the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index and the S&P 500, which were up roughly 19% and 10% through the same time period, respectively.Despite being known as a tech investor, D1 began the second quarter with big holdings in companies such as building materials manufacturer James Hardie International and US Foods, both of which are up more than 20% on the year, according to…

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Swedish fintech Klarna, gives an interview with CNBC during the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Sept. 10, 2025.Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersKlarna, the Swedish fintech firm best known for its buy now, pay later offerings, said Monday it applied to federal and state regulators to establish a U.S. bank subsidiary.The firm said that, if approved, Klarna Bank USA would be a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-backed institution chartered in Utah. The proposed bank would be led by Gary Harding, former CEO of Milestone Bank and Prime Alliance Bank,…

Mark Lazarus, chief executive officer of Versant, at the Semafor World Economy Summit during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesVersant Media Group, the owner of cable networks including CNBC, MS Now and the Golf Channel, has agreed to acquire golf simulation company Full Swing from private equity firm Bruin Capital for about $530 million in cash.The deal follows a template CEO Mark Lazarus has outlined to investors since Versant began trading as a public company in January following its spinout…

Sick of the heat, crowds and high prices, more U.S. travelers are discovering the offseason of international travel — and airlines and hotels are fighting for a windfall.Flights to once-seasonal European vacation destinations now start when there’s still snow on the ground in the U.S. and wrap up when leaves are falling off the trees, if they end at all, instead of following traditional late-spring to late-summer travel seasons.For example, American Airlines’ flight to Edinburgh, Scotland, from New York began in March. United Airlines’ nonstop route to Palermo, Sicily from Newark, New Jersey, will end in December and Delta Air…

Sometimes JPMorgan executives receive emails from a colleague who signs off in all caps: JACK.JACK, however, isn’t one person. It’s the shared identity of John China and Andrew Kresse, who co-lead the bank’s Innovation Economy team for founders and venture capital firms.The nickname started as a practical solution, Kresse told Business Insider. “People kept on writing emails like, ‘Dear John and Andrew,'” he said. “And I was like, let’s not waste time. Let’s give them something easy.”However, the acronym of their initials — John, Andrew, China, Kresse — also reflects the united leadership from the two very different bankers. A…

Larry Gadea wants the people who work for him to stay up to speed on AI. That might mean doing some homework.The founder and CEO of the workplace software company Envoy said the company is investing in AI training to help employees embrace the technology as a tool that can help them do better work. Yet he also believes workers have to take responsibility for learning outside the office.”We all have to learn a new thing, even if it means doing it on our own time,” Gadea said.As AI rewrites the instruction manual for job categories such as software development,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chikara Kennedy, the 43-year-old CEO of Chikara Power Coaching, who lives in Mexico. Business Insider has verified Kennedy’s income and employment with documentation and edited her words for length and clarity.Before launching my own company in 2024, I worked at Meta for nearly five years as a senior HR manager.At the time, my base salary was roughly $250,000, and with bonus and restricted stock options, I was making over $300,000 a year.It was a high-income, very structured corporate role, and my pay was predictable in a way that felt stable.Then in…

Earning nearly $1 million a year wasn’t enough to keep Yousuf Imran at Google.In 2026, Imran earned $986,000 as a Google account executive, largely from sales commissions on top of a roughly $170,000 base salary. Even still, he couldn’t help but notice the potential for “life-changing money” the AI boom was creating outside Big Tech.”Google pays very well, but the equity packages at OpenAI and Anthropic are in a different universe,” said Imran, 41, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.Meanwhile, seeing talented colleagues get laid off over the previous few years made him less confident about his long-term…