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I thought making a lot of money and working hard would make me happy.In my early 20s, I got great grades and finished my undergrad in three years. By my mid-20s, I had finished my graduate degree in law while frequently working 70-hour weeks.I leaned into the idea of being a girlboss, often working weekends or through my lunch, and focusing on making lots of money. It was a habit I saw modeled by my parents. It worked for them, and I thought it would work for me, until it didn’t.I thought hard work was the pointAt 26, I worked…

The latest hot marketing KPI: RSVPs.Creators ranging from Substackers to “SNL” stars are jumping off the screen to in-person events — and marketers can’t get enough.”IRL is the No. 1 brand equity builder of all the channels,” said Justin Thomas-Copeland, CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As).As it becomes harder to reach customers online, in-person events offer a way for brands to reach their biggest fans — and hopefully inspire a flurry of social content.One night last month, Snapple turned a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry into a floating comedy club featuring Colin Jost and Pete Davidson.Lindsay Burstein, a…

Walleye Capital isn’t letting the recent departure of a key executive derail the expansion of its stock-picking unit.The $17 billion asset manager has hired a pair of executives this month to support its equity long-short division, after Matt Giannini left to return to Ken Griffin’s Citadel in September. Giannini had been the chief operating officer of the unit, a significant addition to the firm, before departing after less than a year in the role.Walleye has hired Jordan Tanner, Balyasny Asset Management’s chief equities strategist, and Anna Dev, a Millennium Management recruiter, a person close to the firm told Business Insider.The…

It’s a hotly debated question: Is it better to be an expert or a generalist in the AI era?For Aparna Nair, IBM’s chief talent, leadership, and culture officer, there’s no debate. She said she doesn’t think generalists alone “will cut it” in the workforce in the AI era.”The world of generalists is long gone,” Nair said. Aparna Nair is IBM’s chief talent, leadership, and culture officer.  IBM Nair said that generalists may be able to rely on AI to learn a lot, but at IBM, for example, the company’s clients aren’t expecting general advice from its workforce. IBM is hired…

This as-told-to essay is based on an interview with Bruno Bianchini, the 40-year-old former Head of Global Partnerships for the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey for Google, who is based in the Netherlands. It has been edited for length and clarity.Growing up in the Italian countryside, sustainability was simply part of everyday life. At 18, I left my small village near Milan to study at Bocconi University in Milan.In 2005, I started my degree in accounting, corporate finance, and law. Then I did a master’s in business administration. When I was about to graduate, a friend at the university said…

A flag featuring Donald Trump waves amid a group of supporters near Mar-a-Lago, Fla., in 2024. Alon Skuy/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption i Alon Skuy/Getty Images President Trump has famously pushed the bounds of executive power since he returned to the White House. In arguments Friday before a federal appeals court in Washington, administration lawyers will make an especially bold claim: that papers created in the White House belong to Donald Trump, not to the American people. The move comes amid a series of actions under Trump’s second term to test the limits put in place after the Watergate scandal,…

Forget three-hour movies. China is getting hooked on bite-sized dramas — and ByteDance’s Hongguo app is becoming one of the country’s biggest platforms for streaming them.In August, ByteDance’s apps accounted for 41.8% of the time users spent on China’s 50 biggest mobile apps, up from 34.2% a year earlier. The figures come from Nomura’s China Internet and New Media Monthly App Tracker, published October 5.Much of that growth came from its two apps: Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and Hongguo, a streaming platform focused on short dramas.Hongguo ranks fourth among the country’s biggest apps, behind ByteDance’s Douyin and its…

Netflix has hired a new content chief after a stock slump and struggles to grow its viewership.Peter Rice, a former Fox and Disney executive, will oversee Netflix’s $20 billion budget for movies and shows starting on October 26, the company announced on Thursday.Rice will replace Bela Bajaria, who’s leaving the company after almost a decade. Bajaria took the top content job in 2023 and memorably described the ideal Netflix show as a “gourmet cheeseburger.”The exec shake-up came a day after the streaming giant laid off about 1,000 employees, its biggest round of layoffs in four years.Netflix has had a tough year.Co-CEO Ted…

Apollo is delaying on-cycle recruiting again this year, after a similar move last year helped push back the recruiting timeline across the private equity industry.The private equity giant told prospective candidates Thursday afternoon that it will not recruit its 2028 associate class this calendar year, according to an email obtained by Business Insider.The memo, signed by David Sambur, co-head of Private Equity, and Antoine G. Munfakh, deputy global head of Private Equity, said the firm will wait until candidates who started their investment banking careers over the summer are “closer to completing one full year of professional experience.”The hope, the…

President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is defending her self-description as a lawyer, while acknowledging that she took the bar exam and considered the results “inconsequential.”Zacharia’s legal qualifications have faced growing scrutiny since her debut White House media briefing earlier this week, when shortly afterward she was asked which state she passed the bar exam in and replied: “When I moved to China.”In an interview Thursday with right-wing provocateur Jack Posobiec on Real America’s Voice, she did not deny reports that she’d failed to pass the bar.Zacharia, who moved to China after earning her law degree…