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Boaz Weinstein thinks retail investors who have plowed into private credit and regretted it should ask their wealth advisors a simple question: “How much were you paid?”The activist investor, who has targeted Blue Owl’s funds, argued in a podcast appearance earlier this year that advisors were rewarded with lucrative commissions for steering clients into semi-liquid retail private-credit funds. A Business Insider analysis found that advisors have collected at least $796 million selling those products since 2020 — a windfall made possible by an obscure SEC exemption that quietly reshaped how private credit is distributed to wealthy individual investors.Those incentives have…

The Iran war is edging ever-closer to a resolution. Oil and gas prices at the pump are back down. Chip stocks are in a news lull between earnings seasons. SpaceX won’t join a major index until July.This has paved the way for the Federal Reserve to once again claim center stage, and the timing couldn’t be better. Last week’s FOMC meeting gave investors a fresh peek at the central bank’s internal dialogue. Newly appointed chair Kevin Warsh hosted his first presser.The Fed ultimately succeeded in wresting back the market narrative. For the foreseeable future, with every shred of new data,…

The team was stuck.Someone called over a recent hire from another team — one of SharkNinja’s emerging AI power users.Within about 90 minutes, he had built an AI tool that automated a cumbersome process for tracking projects and holding teams accountable.Word of the worker’s feat spread beyond the group gathered around him in an office at the company’s headquarters near Boston, said SharkNinja CEO Mark Barrocas.For Barrocas, who has spent nearly two decades helping transform the company from an infomercial-era curiosity into a consumer-products juggernaut, the moment captured something larger happening inside the company.”AI is the great equalizer,” he said.…

Coding is famously a solitary job. AI agents have only made it worse.Fiona Fung, an engineering leader at Anthropic who runs the teams behind Claude Code and Claude Cowork, said her team noticed that as engineers relied more on AI agents, they became more isolated.”The thing that we found interesting on the Claude Code team is, after a while, we felt it could start being a lonely experience because we all started just working with our agents so much,” Fung said on the latest episode of “Lenny’s Podcast.”To address the problem, Fung’s team tried to restore some of what agentic…

Raja Rajamannar, Mastercard’s former chief marketing and communications officer, spent more than a decade overseeing marketing for one of the world’s most recognizable brands.During his tenure as CMCO from 2013 to the start of 2026, he made a decision that many marketers would consider unthinkable: He permanently cut Mastercard’s advertising budget by 70% as part of a progressive shift during Mastercard’s marketing transformation.The move didn’t hurt the business, Rajamannar said. Instead, he redirected much of that spending into experiences, sponsorships, and consumer engagement programs that he says delivered stronger returns.In an interview on Business Insider’s upcoming “CMO Insider” podcast, Rajamannar…

Time is money.At least that’s sometimes the thinking when opting for a quick meal from a restaurant or ordering delivery instead of shopping for groceries and cooking at home.Caught between busy schedules and rising restaurant prices, however, US shoppers are looking for a compromise — and grocery stores are selling one.Many grocery chains are now offering some sort of freshly prepared options for shoppers who don’t have time to cook and don’t want to spring for restaurant food. (Plus, they can stock up on groceries during the trip.) The Whole Foods hot bar was one of the earliest to get…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Emily Durham, a 30-year-old author, content creator, podcaster, entrepreneur, and former recruiter who lives in Toronto. It has been edited for length and clarity.Before becoming Emily The Recruiter, a content creator with nearly one million TikTok followers, I held a variety of recruitment roles for nearly 10 years. I worked at a couple of large banks and some large tech companies, and focused on all career stages.I noticed that early-career folks weren’t passing interviews or didn’t know how to advocate for higher salaries. I would be on the phone with candidates,…

Amid an exodus of outpriced Californians fleeing the Golden State in search of affordable housing and intentional community, a sprawling neighborhood development in the heart of the Inland Empire is aiming to keep them home and inject a multibillion-dollar boost into the local economy.The team behind Silverwood, a master-planned 9,000-acre residential community located in Hesperia, spent the last year generating buzz for its low-for-California home prices as well as its kindness pledge — a document that all residents are required to sign.”I can’t tell you the number of times residents have stopped me and said how much they appreciate the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jennifer Martinez, a 35-year-old product manager based in New York City. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve worked as a product manager at an AI startup in New York City since 2017, in a fully remote role that allows me to pursue several side gigs.Like many other people in NYC, I’ve been feeling more financially stressed. My income has increased slightly over the years, but it hasn’t kept pace with how much prices have gone up.About two years ago, I decided I wanted to feel a little less money-strapped,…

In 2002, Martin Woodtli decided to move his mother, who had Alzheimer’s, from Switzerland to Thailand.He had spent years watching the disease slowly change his family. When his mother was first diagnosed, his father stepped in to care for her.Woodtli had already quit his job in social services to help as her condition worsened, but the emotional and physical strain became too much for his father to handle. His father eventually fell into depression and later died by suicide, leaving Woodtli — an only child — to shoulder the responsibility alone. Have you chosen a retirement, assisted living, memory care,…