Why This Founder Stopped Marketing to Her Target Audience and Went After the 97% Who Weren’t Looking for Her
From “cringe” content to unexpected storytelling, Kristen Corral shares the unconventional playbook behind her brand’s growth.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
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. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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AI Is Changing How Your Business Shows Up on Google — Take These 5 Steps to Adapt
These five operating shifts will decide whether AI agents recommend your brand or quietly route around it.
Your Teams Did Everything Right — the Outcome Still Failed. Here’s Where Execution Broke Down.
A major initiative can fall short even when every team delivers what it promised. Here’s why.
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.
The World’s Largest Franchisee Just Revealed His Playbook for Scaling. These Are His Rules.
Greg Flynn built a $5 billion empire spanning 3,000 restaurants across eight brands. Here’s how he did it.
Nvidia Is Tackling a Hidden Problem in Humanoid Robots — And Solving It Could Make the Technology Widespread
Barclays estimates that the humanoid robot industry will generate $200 billion in revenue by 2035.
Password manager maker LastPass says hackers stole customer support case data during Klue breach
This is the second data breach to affect LastPass customers in recent years, after one of the password manager’s tech partners was recently breached.
HaloBraid raises $7M from Seven Seven Six to end the six-hour hair salon appointment
HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts a braiding assistant for professional stylists.
Beer Sales Are Going Flat Everywhere But Guinness Keeps Growing: ‘It’s a 267-Year-Old Overnight Success.’
Since taking over the helm, Gráinne Wafer has turned a 267-year-old brand into one of the fastest-growing in the world.
Who Will Be the Next Trillionaire After Musk? Here’s What the Prediction Markets Say.
Prediction market traders give Mark Zuckerberg the best shot at joining Elon Musk in the 13-digit club — but put his odds at just 32%.