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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Anthony Mendelson. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve always had a knack for technology and computers, and was building computers at a young age. I’ve worked in tech throughout my career. A lot of my foundation was at Google, but it wasn’t my end goal; I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur and start something from scratch.I’ve always loved music and running too. I had been using the iPod Shuffle for years on runs, but when I switched to Spotify, it was no longer supported,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angie Baker, who manages her son CaseOh’s YouTube channel with 10 million subscribers. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’d been working for the city in our Arkansas hometown when Case started his livestreaming career. He was 24 and had been working in maintenance and mowing grass after work.One day, he posted two or three funny videos of himself playing NBA 2K, and he gained 15,000 TikTok followers overnight. We were just dumbfounded. I suggested he go live, so he started on Twitch. As he…

I never imagined I’d move back in with my parents after getting married, but I found myself living in their basement less than a year after my wedding — just to keep my dream job. Loading audio narration… During my senior year of college, I was thrilled when my internship turned into a full-time role as a data analyst. After graduation, I returned to my hometown in South Dakota to start my career with a company that I loved.Nine months after getting married, my husband received active-duty military orders to begin pilot training in rural Oklahoma. I was torn between…

If you’re a parent trying to AI-proof your kids’ futures, entrepreneur-turned-professor Scott Galloway says your focus should be on helping them develop durable skills like storytelling and relationship-building. Loading audio narration… In an episode of the “The Diary of a CEO” podcast released on Monday, host Steven Bartlett asked Galloway which skills will matter most in the future.Galloway said that a decade ago, private schools were heavily investing in Mandarin and computer science, believing those would give students an edge. “How’s that worked out?” Galloway said. “‘Thank god my kid knows Mandarin,’ said nobody right now.”Instead, the next generation should…

Anya Roodnitsky, 22, is a senior at Dartmouth College. She made a video about her job search that got more than 500,000 views on Instagram and eventually led to an offer at an energy startup. Business Insider verified her identity and employment. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m an econ and environmental studies double major, graduating in June. By the end of the fall, I was interviewing with some places, but they didn’t work out. Then I was still applying in January and February, and wasn’t getting any interviews. I was just getting…

While some college students become resident assistants or baristas to help cover school fees, Anthony Ondo took a less traditional approach: bees. Loading audio narration… Ondo, a senior at Chatham University who studies sustainable business, is a dedicated beekeeper who manages a 50-hive apiary in western Pennsylvania. Ondo harvests the honey twice a year and sells it to help pay for his tuition.”I have some scholarship opportunities and do take one small federal loan, but other than that, I’m able to pay the rest of that tuition with money from my business,” Ondo, 23, told Business Insider. “Since day one,…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Pulliam, a 51-year-old tech and executive career coach in Issaquah, Washington. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… After studying computer science, I worked as an athletics coach for 13 years before joining Microsoft as a senior program manager.The manager who hired me gave me the opportunity to teach a data visualization CTE course alongside him, as I had the relevant experience managing a team of younger people.After almost nine years at Microsoft, I began seeking a new role and applied for a position at Zillow.…

The offer may expire at midnight, but the strategy sure won’t. Loading audio narration… For restaurant chains chasing attention in an increasingly fractured landscape, the limited-time offer — once a seasonal gimmick — is now a permanent menu fixture. What used to be an occasional spike has become a predictable rhythm: a steady drumbeat of new sauces, returning fan favorites, and blink-and-you-miss-it promotions designed to keep brands “top of mind with our guests all year long,” as Chipotle CEO Scott Boatwright put it last week during the company’s earnings call.The shift reflects a simple reality: In an attention economy, novelty…

How do you celebrate a memestock trying to buy a company four times its size? You make memes, of course.On Sunday, GameStop’s CEO, Ryan Cohen, made an unsolicited offer to buy internet retailer eBay for about $56 billion. GameStop has a market cap of about $11 billion, compared with eBay’s $46 billion.”EBay should be worth — and will be worth — a lot more money,” Cohen told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “I’m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars.”Cohen, who joined the company in 2023, said he wanted the company to become a…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lee Tze Gwen, a 32-year-old animator and artist from Singapore. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’ve been drawing since I was 10. It’s always been a hobby for me, but I found my true calling in animation in the game industry because gaming is my biggest passion.As an animator, I had to create a lot of gory scenes because that was the nature of the game. I had to make it as believable and cinematic as possible — the stabbings and the explicit scenes.So after coming…