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Don’t Become a Consultant. Start a Business.
When I co-founded the company behind Paw Patrol and Bakugan, I was 23, living with my mother, and had no business experience. That turned out to be my…
Ronnen Harary
Everything You’ve Read About Chinese Cars Is Wrong
One Chinese EV I tested tried to drive into a wall. Another had an interior that reminded me of a 1998 Corolla. A third had nice features but didn’t…
Jack Baruth
New York’s Ban on the Future
Governor Kathy Hochul’s data-center ban will hurt New Yorkers and help foreign adversaries—while stifling progress in AI.
Josh Wolfe
Two Drinks With. . . Steve Bannon’s ‘Transhumanist Editor’
The anti-AI activist says he is “proudly” in the tradition of the Satanic Panic—and that it’s everyone’s job to save America from our AI-slop future.
Suzy Weiss
America’s Next 250 Years Are Ours to Build
In 1776, there was no electricity, no anesthesia, and no running water. The Founders still built something that changed the world. What comes next is up…
Scott Nolan
Dave Portnoy: How I Built Barstool Sports
I quit my cushy sales job, borrowed $20,000 from my dad, hauled news racks across Boston in a rented U-Haul with my mom, and hoped a free sports…
Dave Portnoy
Great Americans: The Godmother of Management
At a time when American factories outnumbered office buildings, Mary Parker Follett invented the ideas that made the modern workplace. Her critique of…
Philip K. Howard
What the New AI Millionaires Are Spending It On
Tech giants SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have either gone public or will soon. I asked the people who’ll benefit: What are you going to buy with the…
Suzy Weiss
Why the SpaceX IPO Went to the Moon
SpaceX has an absurd valuation, and loses billions of dollars. So why was its IPO a hit? Because investors believe that Elon Musk can levitate the…
Joe Nocera
Training Robots In My Apartment
Two college kids showed up with Clorox, and cameras on their heads—and filmed themselves cleaning. The footage will train robots. I feel awkward about…
Suzy Weiss
The Start-Up Spirit Behind America’s Founding, with Arthur Herman
How America’s founder mentality built both its economy and its arsenal
Aaron MacLean
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I Built an AI Company. Here’s Why AI Won’t Kill Coding Jobs.
Throughout history, every time a tool made a job easier, we didn’t run out of things to do. We found bigger things to do.
Hoan Ton-That
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