7 Decisions That Determine Whether Your Merger Succeeds or Fails in the First 100 Days

May 22, 2026

Most mergers don’t fail on strategy — they fail in the first 100 days when leaders avoid hard decisions around culture, ownership and what the new company will actually become.

What Ted Lasso Understands About Leadership That Most Founders Get Wrong

May 22, 2026

As Ted Lasso returns this summer, its leadership lessons offer founders a practical blueprint for leading under pressure with clarity, trust and impact.

If You Own the First Hour of Your Day, You Own Everything That Follows

May 22, 2026

There is a shift happening in how companies are being built; focus is moving upstream into behavior, specifically the first hour of the day.

Why CEOs Often Push Back on Marketing Investment — and the Language Shift That Gets Budgets Approved

May 22, 2026

The gap between marketing dashboards and boardroom decisions is behavioral, not strategic. Here’s how to close it.

Why a High-Performance Leadership Team Is Your Most Powerful Business Asset

May 22, 2026

If your business is underperforming despite strong talent, the real culprit may be hiding in plain sight.

Audio generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down

May 22, 2026

Huxe said that it has pulled its app from App Store and Play Store, and that it will stop working later this month

With Regulations Squeezing Airbnb’s Core Business, the Company’s CEO Just Said a Single Word That No One Expected

May 22, 2026

Regulatory crackdowns have hurt Airbnb’s core business, so it’s now turning to other offerings — making it the Amazon of travel.

Walmart Just Issued a Worse-Than-Expected Outlook — Here’s What It Says About the Economy

May 22, 2026

The retail giant’s shares dropped 7% amid fears consumers will spend less now that tax refund season has ended.

The Download: coding’s future, the ‘Steroid Olympics,’ and AI-driven science

May 22, 2026

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. Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not At Anthropic’s developer event in London this week, Code with Claude, attendees were asked if they’d shipped code…

Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting

May 22, 2026

During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically transforms the world. But what struck me as I listened in the…

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