Apple’s Top Executive Uses a Whoop — What That Says About the Company’s $100 Billion Apple Watch Problem
Apple Watch has dominated fitness trackers, but its leaders are retiring, talent is fleeing and innovation has stalled, Bloomberg reports.
AI Is Making Strong Companies Stronger While Exposing Weak Ones Faster. Here’s What Leaders Need to Understand.
As companies rush to adopt AI for speed and efficiency, many are discovering that technology also exposes deeper operational weaknesses.
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The Man Who Built 7-Eleven Into a Global Empire Had One Three-Word Motto —Here’s What It Was
Toshifumi Suzuki, known as “The God of Retail,” started with one Tokyo store and built up an empire with tens of thousands of locations.
7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data
The data breach included names, dates-of-birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state government listing.
The Download: puncturing the AI jobs panic
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing hysteria over AI’s threat to white-collar jobs, there’s still scant evidence that the technology has had a large-scale impact on…
Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation
Stord was founded in 2015 by then-college students CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech.
A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria
Haven’t you heard? White-collar jobs are going away, decimated by AI. Waves of layoffs in the tech sector (most recently at Coinbase and Meta and Cisco) are said to presage what will soon come for all of us knowledge workers. But before you quit your job as a software developer or financial analyst—or tech journalist—and…
It’s time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work.
Artificial intelligence has not so far produced a clean story of mass unemployment. Aggregate employment in developed countries remains broadly stable, and recent assessments have found limited evidence that AI has shifted the headline numbers. But a troubling change may be hiding beneath the surface: the quiet weakening of the first rung of the career…
What My First Major Business Setback Taught Me About Rebuilding Stronger Companies Across 22+ Ventures
That early failure didn’t stop my entrepreneurial path — it shaped how I built 22+ ventures with stronger systems, sharper judgment and better resilience.
Most Entrepreneurs Think They’re Winning at AI — They’re Not and Their Competitors Already Know It
Most entrepreneurs think they’re ahead on AI because they use the tools every day — but the businesses pulling ahead are building systems that turn institutional knowledge into a lasting competitive advantage.