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Poppi’s CEO and cofounder, Allison Ellsworth, said that she’s opened $5,000 investment accounts for her three kids under 10. Loading audio narration… In an interview with The Wall Street Journal released on Sunday, Ellsworth spoke about how she’s teaching her three children about investing after their latest windfall.Ellsworth and her husband, Stephen Ellsworth, sold their prebiotic soda brand, Poppi, to PepsiCo last year for $1.95 billion. She said her children, who are four, seven, and nine years old, are very curious about investing.”So we opened them three Fidelity investment accounts,” she said. “The stock market hasn’t been great, so they…

Savannah Guthrie posted an emotional montage of her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who is missing, on Mother’s Day. Loading audio narration… “Mother, daughter, sister, Nonie – we miss you with every breath. We will never stop looking for you,” she wrote in the Sunday Instagram post. “We will never be at peace until we find you.”The journalist and “Today” show host then repeated her callout for information.”Someone knows something that can make the difference,” Guthrie wrote. She said the reward for returning her mother is still available. The Guthrie family said in February that it was offering a $1 million reward…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ruth Barry, 42, a baker and writer living in Berlin. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… In 2014, I moved to Berlin, where I met my husband, another expat, at a party.The city was exciting, and I ran a bakery in a trendy neighborhood. But a string of bad luck forced me to close it in 2021 and file for bankruptcy.We decided to leave Berlin for the Bay Area, where my husband grew up and has most of his family. I wanted somewhere gentler, without the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Peter Millard, a 78-year-old retiree living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife, Rita. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My wife and I spent more than 20 years moving between countries, trying to find the right place to grow old.We met while working in the health service in Birmingham, UK, before retiring on health grounds in the late ’90s. Not ready to stop working, I retrained as a podiatrist and ran my own practice for five years, during which we built a small holiday home…

Even as companies like Cloudflare and Snap cite AI as they lay off thousands of employees, Jensen Huang told graduates on Sunday that there’s no better time to “begin your life’s work.” Loading audio narration… Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University’s 2026 Commencement, the Nvidia CEO made his case that AI will be a net positive for humanity, including for those newly starting their careers.”Now it’s your time to realize your dreams, and the timing could not be more perfect,” he said.The 61-year-old tech mogul — who now has an estimated net worth of nearly $186 billion — graduated from Oregon State University with…

A Chicago-based executive is trying to break a record in Florida with the sale of his home by listing it for $115 million — and it’s nowhere near South Beach.Steven Lempera, the president of an energy company in Illinois, bought the 87-acre lakefront compound in Tampa, Florida, in 2021 for $16.7 million and is trying to sell it at a nearly 600% price markup. Lempera and his wife, Jane, bought the property from Don Wallace, the cofounder of Lazydays RV, after surveying alternative options to Chicago during COVID.”They were looking for an estate of this caliber with massive acreage,” One…

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince doesn’t like the name of his own company. Loading audio narration… Responding to an X user who said the name Cloudflare is “not good” and “not aspirational,” Prince agreed.”I’d add: too long, hard for English speakers to say Cluh and Fluh next to each other so becomes Cloudfare, multiple ways to spell flare/flair,” he wrote.He said it’s better than his original idea, however. Prince said he considered “Project Web Wall,” which he joked would be a “nightmare” for the late broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, who had a distinctive speech impediment.Cloudflare is one of the companies that…

Exhausted from the 9-to-5 hustle, my partner and I sold most of our belongings and built an old 1996 Chevy Express conversion van into a tiny home. Loading audio narration… We’d previously been living in the suburbs of St. Louis, and we were ready for a little more adventure and excitement. We wanted something different than anything we were used to.When we found out we were pregnant around two years later, we knew it was time for some roots, and we found an off-grid home on 40 acres in northern New Mexico. Both experiences were amazing and exciting, yet stressful…

A host of factors go into deciding whether to have a child, from finances and medical expenses to one’s lifestyle and living situation.But in the US, another sometimes crucial detail is the companies where parents work.The US is the only developed, high-income nation that doesn’t guarantee national paid parental leave, according to the BBC, although 14 states and Washington, DC, have enacted their own mandatory paid leave programs.Employers’ policies can therefore make all the difference in how family planning and postpartum care look. For eligible workers, the Family and Medical Leave Act provides unpaid leave and job-protection guarantees, but it’s up…

When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news.No more turtles.Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He owns his own production company. Generally speaking, Galante’s got a good feel for what his audience wants. But it was Galloway, something of a guru in the still-burgeoning YouTube creator economy, who identified that whenever Galante showed turtles in his videos, viewer engagement dropped. It was consistent and…