By KC Ifeanyi February 23, 2023 When Marian Leitner-Waldman launched her canned-wine company Archer Roose in 2014, she hit on a relatively untapped market at just the right time. Between 2014 and 2016, there was a 125% increase in canned-wine sales, driven by consumers looking for convenience (enjoying a single-serve can versus opening … Continue reading Why this canned-wine company tapped Elizabeth Banks to lead its marketing
By Adam Bluestein February 19, 2023 You don’t bet against Zach Weinberg. In 2010, at age 24, he sold Insight Media, the display advertising and exchange bidding company he cofounded with Nat Turner, to Google for a reported $81 million. Their next venture, Flatiron Health, a data-science software company that pioneered the use … Continue reading This startup just raised more than half a billion dollars to change how new drugs get discovered
By Adele Peters February 16, 2023 Inside the Silicon Valley factory of a startup called Sakuu, a new type of 3D printer is reinventing how batteries are made. The technique, which prints using thin layers of powder, can change what the batteries look like—imagine an e-bike battery that curves to fit the frame … Continue reading This startup can 3D print a battery into any shape you want
How NFTs, crypto and blockchain will one day work together to propel Web3. William Terdoslavich on February 15, 2023 Web3 is at that awkward moment when it is learning how to walk in a world that expects it to run. Like any new technology in its infancy, Web3 is babbling buzzwords—crypto, NFT, blockchain. The Web3 … Continue reading So how is this Web3 supposed to work?
Brands have paired up with ecommerce companies like Instacart and DoorDash to get their products to consumers before and during the game. Chris Wood on February 9, 2023 Super Bowl LVII kicks off this Sunday, and brands are finding new ways to gain exposure and drive up sales through digital channels like CTV. Brands advertising … Continue reading How Michelob ULTRA, PepsiCo and Rakuten are approaching the Super Bowl this year
By Grace Carroll February 05, 2023 Facebook buys Whatsapp for $22 billion. American Airlines mergers with US Air: $11 billion. Softbank invests in WeWork: $17 billion. These landmark deals and mergers form the foundations of the business world as we know it. But the story behind the deals—and all their accompanying tensions, dramas and … Continue reading This new podcast wants to get at the drama behind some of the biggest deals
By Nate Berg January 27, 2023 Standing in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris in 2012, Dorrian Porter was transfixed by a sign. The station’s arrivals and departures board—a classic split-flap analog sign that constantly turns its wheels of characters, click-clacking updated information on trains, tracks, and times—had a presence that Porter … Continue reading Why Google, Netflix and cannabis dispensaries are using this century-old sign technology
By Nicole LaPorte January 22, 2023 Last December, when the Michelin Guide announced which California restaurants had been blessed with a coveted star (or stars) for the year—undoubtedly the most prestigious designation in the culinary world—new entrants such as chef Curtis Stone’s Gwen and 715, a spare, omakase sushi joint, garnered heartfelt applause … Continue reading This Instagrammer is reinventing the creative art of restaurant reviews
By Shalene Gupta January 20, 2023 In a recent New Yorker cartoon, a medieval executioner stands next to a prisoner in a room full of torture devices. He points to a wooden chair and desk and says: “This last one may not look like much, but just see what it’ll do to your back . … Continue reading Is your office job killing your health? This five-minute tip can help
Meta is laying off more than 11,000 employees Karissa Bell @karissabe Meta is reducing the size of its workforce by about 13 percent and letting more than 11,000 of its employees go in the first mass layoffs in the company’s history. Mark Zuckerberg has announced the move in a message to employees, which Meta … Continue reading Microsoft could lay off as many as 11,000 employees this week
