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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Fenchel, the 41-year-old CEO of BeatBox Beverages, based in Austin. Mark Cuban joined for a portion of the interview and is an investor in BeatBox Beverages. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I was an equity analyst for almost five years but realized I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life. I was 27, unmarried, and childless, and I thought there was more out there for me.I went to business school in 2011. There, Brad Schultz, one of my best friends and a cofounder…

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on as he attends a press conference to discuss health insurance reform, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 23, 2025.Kevin Mohatt | ReutersHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hand-picked vaccine committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to change a longstanding recommendation that every baby get vaccinated against hepatitis B within 24 hours of birth. It’s unclear if the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, will significantly delay or eliminate that so-called birth dose…

I find myself cackling on the phone as Steve Johnson, 72, wades through his basement in the Atlanta suburbs, describing “all the crap” his four adult children have left behind. There are vinyl records, Braves bobble-heads, Pink Floyd posters, a drum, guitar stands, books, mounds of CDs. “Is this a picture of Bob Marley? Oh my God. Bob Marley is in my basement still,” Johnson says, one of half a dozen exclamations invoking the Almighty’s name during our conversation. His daughter’s old exercise ball gets an audible, “Ugh.” The camping gear from his kids’ festival days gets another, “Oh my…

While the internet is buzzing over this year’s Spotify Wrapped — especially with its new “listening age” feature — another platform has slipped out its year-end recap with much less fanfare.YouTube unveiled “Recap” on Tuesday, its first attempt at a Wrapped-style experience. The platform said “Recap” is available to US users with a global rollout coming later this week.The feature compiles up to 12 cards that showcase users’ top channels, interests, and how their tastes have shifted over time. It also assigns them a viewing personality based on their watch history.Meanwhile, Spotify Wrapped kept its signature stats — minutes listened,…

Melinda French Gates has a message for the ultrawealthy: Give more money away.In a Tuesday interview with Wired, Gates spoke about the Giving Pledge, a movement she started in 2010 with her ex-husband, Microsoft’s cofounder Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett, the chair of Berkshire Hathaway.French Gates said that some of the people who signed the Giving Pledge, which encourages billionaires to donate a significant portion of their wealth, have been giving money at a “massive scale.””But have they given enough? No,” she said.She said those who have amassed “enormous amounts of wealth” have benefited from the US’s education system, regulatory…

Young people should redesign their careers every few years, says AT&T’s CEO.On an episode of the “In Good Company” podcast released on Wednesday, John Stankey said that the idea that you get a relevant college education is “quickly fading,” so young people should own their learning.”You think about how fast technology is moving, how fast business models are moving,” he said. “You have to think about your career in chapters that are four or five years.”Stankey has worked at the telecom giant for over 41 years and has been leading the company since 2020.Every few years, he said people should…

Director Carl Eric Rinsch made so many failed, seven-figure option bets after Netflix wired him $11 million that his broker at Wells Fargo tried — and failed — to stop him, a New York fraud jury heard on Tuesday.”I can afford to lose the money,” Rinsch said, according to testimony by his former Wells Fargo advisor, Ronald See.And when the brokerage hit the brakes — limiting him to $250,000 per transaction — the show developer was undaunted.On March 30, 2019, just three weeks after receiving the $11 million, Rinsch instructed See, of Wells Fargo Advisors, to wire his remaining $8.5…

MrBeast is building out a platform to match creators and marketers, the CEO of the top YouTuber’s company said at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday.Jeffrey Housenbold, CEO of Beast Industries, said the company was “building a two-sided marketplace in a global creator platform, matching creators with Fortune 1,000 marketers who want to be able to access the creator influencer economy in an efficient way to be able to build demand for their products and services.”A spokesperson for the company said the marketplace was in the general-discussion phase and that there were no specifics to share yet.An early…

YouTube’s top creator, MrBeast, wants to do more than just appear in videos on your phone. He wants to power your mobile phone service, too.The content creator, who has over 450 million subscribers, is planning to launch a phone business called “Beast Mobile” as one of his company’s next ventures, Beast Industries CEO Jeffrey Housenbold said on Wednesday, speaking at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit.Housenbold’s remarks confirmed Business Insider’s earlier reporting that the YouTuber had ambitions to get into the phone business. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is unlikely to try to build a mobile network from…

Kathryn Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, came under a microscope last month after a cache of emails showed a deeper relationship between her and the now-dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein than previously known.Those emails aren’t the entirety of the communications between her and Epstein.Epstein’s estate is keeping secret 277 additional emails between him and Ruemmler, saying they are protected by attorney-client confidentiality. Many of those emails contain discussions of lawsuits by women who accused Epstein of sexual assault, according to a court filing made public this week.The document, a 500-page list of emails the estate claims are privileged, indicates…