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Ten years after making history as the first plus-size model on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Ashley Graham has built a business portfolio spanning skincare and clothing to baby care and alcohol.The 38-year-old supermodel turned businesswoman spoke at Business Insider’s The Long Play event in New York City on Thursday to discuss her breaking barriers in fashion and navigating the difficult world of investment and entrepreneurship.”I realized quickly that my body is my business,” she told Business Insider’s Leena Rao. “So how can I scale this?” Follow along with our coverage of Business Insider’s The Long Play…

Before Smartbird was powering large language models, it was making shoes.The CEO of the AI infrastructure company, Nadia Carlsten, spoke about the transition with chief correspondent Ben Bergman on Thursday at Business Insider’s The Long Play.Its roots are the sustainable sneaker company Allbirds, which skyrocketed in the late 2010s. The shoes were particularly popular among the Silicon Valley crowd. Allbirds went public in 2021 before the market turned on many direct-to-consumer businesses. The stock quickly fell, and it sold to American Exchange Group in March for $39 million.”The short answer is the shoe business wasn’t doing that well,” Carlsten said.The…

Strauss Zelnick is relentlessly focused on making “the best entertainment on earth.” There’s no confusion about that mission among his employees, he said.”I have 13,000 colleagues,” the Take-Two Interactive CEO said at Business Insider’s The Long Play event in New York City on Thursday. “100% of them can and will tell you exactly what I just said.”His management philosophy — “establish a mission, establish a strategy, and promulgate collective culture” — is about to get its biggest test in years.Take-Two is the publisher behind popular games like “Red Dead Redemption” and “NBA 2K,” and, on November 19, they’ll launch a…

Signage outside Rivian’s offices in Palo Alto, California, Dec. 10, 2025.Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRivian Automotive beat Wall Street’s third-quarter earnings expectations as it ramped up production of its new R2 entry-level SUV that the company has promised investors will lead it to profitability.Here’s how Rivian performed in the period ended Sept. 30, compared with average estimates compiled by LSEG:Loss per share: 48 cents adjusted vs. loss of 62 cents expectedRevenue: $2.16 billion vs. $1.99 billion expectedShares of Rivian were up roughly 7% during afterhours trading Thursday, after hitting a new 52-week low of $11.38 earlier in the…

Starbucks on Thursday reported mixed quarterly results as its international cafes underperformed expectations.However, its U.S. turnaround continues to take hold, as its home market topped expectations during the coffee giant’s final quarter of fiscal 2026. “We enter fiscal 2027 with momentum, a clear set of priorities and higher ambitions for what Starbucks can become,” CEO Brian Niccol said in a video shared on the company’s website.Starbucks is ahead of schedule to meet the fiscal 2028 targets laid out at its investor day in January, he said on the company’s earnings conference call.For fiscal 2027, Starbucks is projecting adjusted earnings per…

Gig workers could see changes to how they make deliveries if DoorDash’s $17 billion deal for Instacart goes through.The companies announced the acquisition on Thursday after several years of considering a deal. It would give DoorDash, long one of the dominant names in restaurant delivery, a much stronger position in grocery delivery.The acquisition would also bring together millions of gig workers who make deliveries for both companies.Here’s what we know so far about how the deal would affect delivery workers:DoorDash plans to keep the Instacart appIf the deal wins federal approval, DoorDash doesn’t plan to fold Instacart’s brand into its…

Docked and arriving cruise ships in Cozumel, Mexico.Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesCarnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings posted strong earnings for their most recent quarters despite rising fuel prices. How the leading cruise companies navigate fuel costs boils down to starkly different strategies.Oil prices have skyrocketed since the U.S.-Israel war with Iran began on Feb. 28. Brent crude oil reached a six-month high on Friday, settling at $116.72 per barrel. With no clear end in sight for the conflict in the Middle East, the pressure affecting cruise ships’ lifeblood seems poised to last into…

Muse, the AI agent from Meta, can do many wonderful and useful things. It can help organize your inbox, book travel plans for you, and buy you lunch.But one thing that Meta has decided it shouldn’t brag about is that it can track who unfollowed you on Instagram.About a week ago, Rachel Karten, who writes the excellent marketing newsletter Link in Bio, noticed a strange ad on Instagram. The ad encouraged people to download Muse, with an image of the fuzzy mascot holding up red and green Tinder-esque signs, suggesting you could “See who unfollowed you each week.”Finding out who…

If you’ve ever cracked open a bubbly, icy-cold “fridge cigarette,” Coca-Cola’s CEO would like a word.The beverage giant’s CEO, Henrique Braun, was asked about the phrase — a popular slang term for a can of Diet Coke — in a Tuesday interview with Yahoo Finance, and appeared unimpressed.He first answered by promoting the company’s growth, before being pressed for his thoughts on the nickname.”The consumers call it the way they want to call it,” Braun said. “The most important thing to us is that we don’t position Diet Coke in that way.””It’s a great-tasting product, which connects with the consumer…

I’ve known my wife’s parents for nearly a decade, and we’ve always gotten along, but I never imagined sharing a roof with them. That all changed last year, when my wife suddenly popped the question: “How would you feel about buying a house with my mom and dad?”We knew it would be years before we could afford the down payment on a house, particularly anywhere near Frederick, Maryland, where we wanted to live.Even though we were both lawyers in our late 30s, we didn’t have as much saved as we should have. We had each chosen lower-paying work over big-firm…