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This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Nick Woodhead, founder of the AI company GPTree and chief technology officer at Rothco and Compubox. He spoke with Business Insider on Thursday to share how he’s responded to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language that could affect the majority of the world’s websites. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.It’s always a nightmare when these things happen. Since Tuesday evening, I haven’t slept. It’s coming close to 48 hours working on this. I’m a CTO, but I also run an agency for multiple clients and have my…

When TikTok food reviewer Gabriel Rivera DMed Natendrea Jones about her seafood this spring, she assumed it was a prank.”I thought somebody was playing a joke,” Jones, 36, told Business Insider.The South Carolina native had spent years trying to turn her cooking into a full-time business. She grew up surrounded by home cooking and began earning money young, first by preparing salads for neighbors and family cookouts, then by doing hair and nails.Cooking remained a side hustle for more than a decade. Jones made seafood platters for friends and occasionally sold pans, but hair and nails paid the bills.A viral…

GoDaddy’s CEO said small businesses should use AI to automate work, but not lose sight of their brand. As head of the domain registrar and web-hosting company, Aman Bhutani has a bird’s-eye view into what works for small businesses. The company said it has over 20 million customers, the majority of which are micro businesses, or those with fewer than 10 employees.The entrepreneurs behind these companies consistently have passion and expertise, he said. However, they tend to have less technological capability — and even less bandwidth to do time-consuming tasks like creating and maintaining a website, said Bhutani.”There is not…

Something unusual is happening right now: a documentary is drawing crowds to theaters at a level rarely seen for the genre.The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything,” directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, grossed $15.6 million in the US and Canada during its opening weekend in October. That makes it the second-biggest theatrical docufilm debut ever, behind director Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which saw a nearly $24 million opening in 2004. “You Can See Everything” was filmed in the month before Holmes reported to prison in May 2023 after she was convicted of defrauding investors in connection with…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tiffany Tang, the 30-year-old founder of DrinkFolks. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m the founder and CEO of DrinkFolks, which brings jamu, a 1,300-year-old Indonesian herbal remedy, to the US as a prebiotic root tonic.For the first two years of my career, I was an assistant director at a gallery owned by the first female fine arts dealer in America. From 2017 to 2021, I worked at Christie’s International Real Estate in marketing and communications roles.For the next year, I was a senior communications manager at CSM Sport &…

Career experts say hiring managers only look at résumés for a few seconds, so job seekers need to get it right to avoid the dreaded rejection email. What kind of personal details should you leave out? Do you need buzzwords and jargon?There’s a ton of advice available about what to include and leave out of your résumé. Business Insider spoke with a few career experts about common résumé mistakes and drew on their insights to develop a quiz.Take the following quiz to see whether you can find common résumé mistakes.It’s hard out there for job seekers in the low-hire, low-fire…

Gary Vaynerchuk, 50, says aspiring entrepreneurs should spend every spare minute mastering AI and content creation.During a Thursday appearance on the “Nude Project” podcast, Vaynerchuk shared how he would approach starting a business today as a 16-year-old with 1,000 euros in capital. The podcast is hosted by Bruno Casanovas and Alex Benlloch, founders of the Spanish streetwear brand Nude Project.”I would make content,” Vaynerchuk said. “The dollars don’t scare me at all because it takes no dollars. I would spend every ounce of time learning AI. Like, from what OpenClaw is to Claude Code, to using it to think and…

Meta wants more than rank-and-file employees at the office. It wants CEO Mark Zuckerberg there, too — even if that comes at a hefty price.The tech giant’s board said in a securities filing Wednesday that it would create a new class of non-voting stock in part to keep Zuckerberg in control and give him a financial incentive to continue living near its headquarters. It described his presence at the office as “critically important” to its future success. Meta has required employees to come in at least three days a week since 2023.Zuckerberg previously told the board he was considering moving…

Consolidation is underway at David Ellison’s Skydance just a few weeks after the company closed its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.Skydance’s chief product officer, Dane Glasgow, laid out the product and tech leadership structure of the combined entity in a memo viewed by Business Insider.Four top WBD executives are leaving, according to the memo.They include:Avi Saxena, Warner Bros. Discovery’s chief technology officerTyler Whitworth, chief product officer for WBD’s streaming businessDave Duvall, WBD’s chief information officerTrish Collins Weedon, WBD’s chief information security officer (CISO)Duvall, Saxena, and Whitworth will stay on in an “advisory capacity as we undergo this transition,”…

It’s costing families nearly $7,500 a year for health insurance — and more increases are looming.A 2026 health benefits survey from KFF found that workers on a family plan paid an average of $7,471 a year in premiums — a 9% increase from 2025. And that’s just the worker contribution — when accounting for employer contributions, family plan premiums totaled $28,303 in 2026, a roughly 5% increase from 2025. That’s a hefty price for both workers and their employers, and even more acute for workers at smaller businesses: KFF’s survey found that at firms with fewer than 200 employees, they…