Melissa Ben-Ishay’s “love language” has always been baking. So, when she was fired from her advertising job at age 24, following her passion into business seemed like an ideal opportunity. Her brother Brian Bushell encouraged her to seize it. “We wound up creating an incredible product that makes people happy during good times and bad,”...
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features 25-year-old Elena Bonvicini, who runs her fashion brand EB Denim out of Los Angeles. EB Denim has generated multimillion-dollar revenue, and its pieces have been worn by Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid and other high-profile celebrities, per the company. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image Credit: Courtesy...
Gary Vaynerchuk is known across social media as Gary Vee, a serial entrepreneur worth over $200 million. Now he’s launching a four-month accelerator to transform founders from within — for a price. The accelerator, called vYve (pronounced “vive” like the number “five”), is running through Vaynerchuk’s group of companies, VaynerX. It gives a small batch...
Mark Zuckerberg submitted a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Monday stating that in 2021, Meta censored certain Covid-19 content on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other platforms it owns. The letter was in response to the committee’s ongoing investigation of how the federal government plays into content moderation choices made by...
In 2009, 18-year-old Amanda Zuckerman was shopping for college dorm room supplies with her mother Karen when “[they] were really surprised to find that stylish twin XL bedding and everything that you need for outfitting and organizing a small space was practically non-existent, and was not sold in one place,” she says. So, in the...
This Side Hustle Spotlight Q&A features Orlando-based entrepreneur Sean Hall. Hall has launched several ventures in “the better-for-you CPG space,” including his latest protein powder company Wellious. Responses have been edited for length and clarity. Image Credit: Courtesy of Wellious. Sean Hall. When did you start your side hustle, and what was your full-time job...
Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With quarterly earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. That’s the worst...
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta is slated to report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the close of regular trading. Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting: Earnings per...
Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, rings the opening bell at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 15, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Pinterest shares sank about 15% when the company reported its second-quarter earnings on Tuesday and provided third-quarter guidance that was lower than analyst estimates. Here’s how the company...
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for AI isn’t a single chatbot like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude; he instead envisions as many chatbots as there are Meta users, each infused with unique personalities and likenesses. At the 2024 SIGGRAPH conference on Monday, Zuckerberg told Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Meta’s new AI studio, released the same day...