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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Louis Squires, 71, owner of Magnolia Room Cafeteria in Tucker, Georgia. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I had been a regular customer at the S&S cafeteria in the Atlanta suburbs for years. So, when I heard the 43-year-old institution was closing down, I stepped in.I knew the staff and didn’t want to see the place disappear. I thought I could rescue it and save the jobs and the food I loved. So, in 2017, I acquired the S&S equipment and moved it into an old…

When I was in high school in the late 90s / early 2000s, Best Buy was the spot. My friends and I would go there to play video games, browse CDs and DVDs, and hang out in the car-audio den. Loading audio narration… When Amazon burst onto the scene around that same time, it looked like the gig was up. Prices were lower. The selection was vast and the shipping was fast. E-commerce was an existential threat to brick-and-mortar stores of all types.But Best Buy persevered in an environment that saw now-defunct competitor Circuit City fail. It started matching online…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angie Hicks, cofounder of Angi, the company formerly known as Angie’s List. Angi is an online home-services marketplace. This story has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… When we started Angie’s List in Columbus, Ohio, in 1995, it was called Columbus Neighbors. I was the only employee, and I was the one who answered the phones and went door-to-door signing up contractors to join. If you called, you talked to me.We were about a year into the business when we realized homeowners thought the list was our monthly…

The city of Logan, Utah, a college and dairy farming town, is seen from the hillside on the Utah State University campus, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Hannah Schoenbaum/AP hide caption toggle caption Hannah Schoenbaum/AP LOGAN, Utah — President Donald Trump’s administration took the unusual step this week of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old from Utah who is at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the child’s gender identity. The child’s parent, Rose Inessa-Ethington, a transgender woman, is accused of taking the child to Cuba without the permission of the biological mother.…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kang Gwang-sik, a 40-year-old content creator from South Korea. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I’m the guy on Instagram with $300,000 in debt in South Korea, living on $10 a day. That’s the concept of my content, but it’s also my real life.My total debt was actually much larger. At one point, it reached close to $1 million.I ran a company in electric mobility focused on smart charging systems, but it collapsed at the beginning of 2025, and I entered bankruptcy proceedings.In South Korea,…

Disney is pulling back the curtain on internal AI usage and letting its employees see who’s tokenmaxxing. Loading audio narration… The Mouse House has given some tech staffers access to an “AI Adoption Dashboard” that tracks token usage across AI coding tools Cursor and Claude, Business Insider has learned.The dashboard shows staffers a wealth of data — including the number of employees actively using AI, the number of requests made, and the number of tokens used over a given period.The dashboard also displays the most active AI users by requests made and tokens used, according to a screenshot of the…

Workers care about getting paid time off from work — a lot. Loading audio narration… Business Insider recently reported that Zoom reduced the number of weeks of paid parental leave it offers, while Deloitte is also planning to do the same — and more — for select groups of workers starting in January.The article, which also explains why other companies may follow their lead, sparked a viral conversation on LinkedIn, drawing more than 1,100 comments and a wide range of perspectives. Many expressed disappointment and concern for affected workers. Others argued that reducing core benefits may be a necessary, or…

The world’s biggest creator, MrBeast, grew up on YouTube videos, but now he has another media obsession. Loading audio narration… MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, said he’s been trying to learn more about culture this past year by deeply studying movies — including every Christopher Nolan film. He named 2008’s “The Dark Knight” as a favorite.”I’ve just been obsessed recently over telling great stories,” he said. “And I grew up watching basically only YouTube, and I didn’t really watch movies or anything growing up.”Donaldson, 27, spoke on Wednesday at the Time100 Summit. He was named to the 2026…

Lululemon store sign in London, March 2, 2026.Peter Dazeley | Getty ImagesLululemon on Wednesday named Heidi O’Neill as the athleisure company’s new CEO, effective Sept. 8. The news comes after the company has seen more than a year of disappointing performance and is embroiled in a dramatic proxy battle, with founder Chip Wilson criticizing the business.Shares of the company sank more than 5% in extended trading.O’Neill has held multiple roles at Nike, contributing to the sportswear behemoth’s growth. She also held positions at Levi Strauss, Hyatt Hotels and Spotify. “Heidi is an inspiring leader and proven, consumer-driven brand strategist, with…

BMW wants to keep making sedans in spite of U.S. tariff pressures on German imports and the far higher sales of sport utility vehicles, said Sebastian Mackensen, the company’s North America chief. Mackensen made the comments in an interview on Tuesday, a day before BMW unveiled an updated version of its full-size 7 Series sedan, which includes a slew of design and technology features BMW had originally developed for its electric vehicles. The 7 Series vehicles will be the first without electric powertrains to come equipped with the new tech, which includes a panoramic heads-up display in the windshield and a voice…