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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Davon Moseley, the content creator and food influencer behind Royale Eats. It has been edited for length and clarity.While I was in graduate school pursuing my master’s degree, I began posting photos and videos of the meals I was cooking. I didn’t think much of it at first — I certainly didn’t have a road map or business plan — but people started responding in a way I didn’t expect.As more people followed my page, I decided to release my first real product: an eBook. I had no idea how it would…

Jane Newman spent her evenings watching K-dramas on her recliner during the pandemic lockdowns. She didn’t expect they’d spark a curiosity about South Korea that would eventually lead her to move there and start over.In 2023, Newman was working for a consulting firm in Brisbane, Australia. As a manager, her heavy workload didn’t let up even as the world began to return to normal.After months of long hours spent in front of a screen, she was burned out and beginning to feel the strain.”I started out with a whole lot of shoulder and back pain, and then it developed into…

The big clean up; turning down the volume; it’s a killing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.Processing ContentGreenwich Connecticut: Exec Jeffrey Arsenault, 63, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion.Arsenault was the managing member and majority owner of Old Greenwich Capital Advisors, the investment manager of Old Greenwich Capital Partners, a private equity fund of funds.  From 2013 through 2022, the latter received investment distributions of at least $9.1 million, which should have been distributed to investors, reinvested or used to pay authorized expenses. Instead, Arsenault used some $5.2 million of the money for personal or other unauthorized expenses, including payments…

The creator economy is riding an AI-fueled high.In 2025, eight startups building artificial intelligence tools to automate the content creation process each announced at least $50 million in funding — a combined $1.2 billion — from venture capital and private equity investors.Synthesia, a generative AI video startup based in London, confirmed its $180 million funding round in January, while ElevenLabs, a text-to-voice startup, closed a $180 million Series C round. Other AI startups, like Moonvalley, Krea, and Higgsfield, also announced sizable investments this year.While AI is dominating investor interest, the topic still carries friction within the creator economy. Some of…

One of the top last-minute shopping destinations this holiday season wasn’t Walmart or Target but a discount retailer that describes itself as “semi-lovely” and its regulars as an “army.”Ollie’s Bargain Outlet notched the biggest foot-traffic increase on Super Saturday, the last Saturday before Christmas, according to location data firm Placer.ai. Ollie’s saw footfall at its stores increase nearly 21% over the same day in 2024, Placer found.Other retailers that saw big Super Saturday foot traffic were Bath & Body Works at 11%, Ross at 9%, and Dollar General at 8%, Placer.ai found.The findings show that last-minute shoppers gravitated to retailers…

The trustees overseeing the Financial Accounting Foundation have named three new members of the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council and reappointed 11 current members for another term starting in the New Year.Processing ContentThe GASAC provides input to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, which the FAF oversees, on strategic and technical issues, project priorities and other matters affecting standards setting for state and local government accounting. GASAC members consult with GASB on technical issues on the board’s agenda, project priorities, matters likely to require GASB’s attention, along with the selection and organization of task forces, and other matters requested by GASB…

How to weed through Slack’s never-ending parade of pings? Anduril’s COO has some advice.Matt Grimm has overseen the defense technology company since its starting days. He cofounded Anduril with Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, and Joseph Chen. Before Anduril, Grimm worked at Palantir.In a walkaround interview with Sourcery, Grimm said that he often popped into Slack channels where employees didn’t expect to see him.”They will see me chirp in on some random thread in some random channel,” Grimm said. “People will be like, ‘How the hell did you see this?'” Grimm said he sorts his Slack messages by both…

Budimir Jevtic – stock.adobe.com The Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service say guidance is forthcoming on a new method for recovering federal excise tax paid on dyed fuel established under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Processing ContentAnnouncement 2026-01 provides general information on claiming a payment under a new OBBB provision related to dyed fuel. The new law allows a taxpayer to recover federal excise taxes paid on clear diesel fuel or kerosene if that taxpayer later removed the fuel from a terminal as dyed fuel for nontaxable use.The announcement notes that absent a statutory change, the Treasury and the IRS lack…

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pan African Federation of Accountants to work together to advance professional education, capacity building and global collaboration within the accounting profession.Processing ContentThe deal, which was signed on Nov. 1 and announced earlier this month, creates a framework for ongoing collaboration to deepen international cooperation, strengthen regional capacity, and support the next generation of accounting professionals. By pooling together their expertise and creating new channels for knowledge exchange, CPA Canada and PAFA hope to strengthen the profession and support high-quality reporting and governance across the continent.”CPA Canada is…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Georg Loewen, a 35-year-old senior director of digital marketing at SourceCode Communications, a public relations agency. He lives in West Orange, New Jersey. Business Insider has verified Loewen’s employment with documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When I joined my current employer in November 2024, I made it clear that my first job was being a dad. My wife and I both work, and our daughter was barely a year old.I’d always been fortunate to work for flexible employers, but like many new parents, I was still figuring…