Inside Ikea’s big bet on humans in the age of AI
The countertop was a problem far too unruly for AI to solve. When the customer called in to Ikea’s remote-sales center in Helsingborg to order a custom-cut slab for his…
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Flirting with $5 trillion, Apple has never been more valuable—or a riskier bet for investors
Around mid-day on July 28, Apple stock jumped around 3% to achieve, for the first time, a market cap of $5 trillion, hitting a number that only one enterprise, Nvidia,…
Elon Musk said money doesn’t matter. Then he rolled out X Money and admitted he’s a ‘former trillionaire’
Elon Musk admitted it himself: he’s no longer a trillionaire. On July 24, Musk posted “(Former) Trillionaire” on X, a rare public acknowledgment from a man who rarely concedes ground.…
Jamie Dimon says his stockbroker father taught him to invest with a ‘brutally hard’ childhood game
Like legendary investor Warren Buffett, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s finance career started in childhood. But in an unusually hands-on fashion, Dimon spent hours playing investment simulation games with his father.…
I was Spotify’s first analytics lead. Here is what VCs get wrong about data
What happens to the way we work when the tools get good? Long before the AI boom, we asked the same question at Spotify, where I was the first-ever VP…
‘We’re on top of every restock’: This 24-year-old has made over $4 million off his subscription-based reselling community
JS, the founder of ShockedIO, doesn’t want to reveal his name. But he will tell you how he made $4.4 million since launching his subscription-based reselling community in 2020. For…
Gen Z workers are sneaking out of the office to nap and cry—anywhere secluded away from the desk will do, including Zara’s fitting room
Gen Z and zillenial workers are so stressed out from their jobs that they are sneaking out of the office in search of fitting rooms, train stations, anywhere secluded to…
Coinbase and Robinhood are in a heated battle rivalry—and this week’s Q2 earnings will show who has the edge
When Robinhood and Coinbase went public back in the first half of 2021, the companies occupied very different lanes. Today, the two founder-led firms are clashing on multiple fronts as…
Sun Life launches global private wealth platform targeting Asia’s booming HNWI market
Canadian insurer Sun Life is launching an integrated private wealth platform to support high-net-worth individuals as they build, preserve, and transfer assets across borders. Life insurers are racing into the…
Record heat gives way to winter gas fears in Europe, Asia as Iran war rages on
As Europe and much of Asia suffer through record heatwaves, fears are already shifting to the upcoming winter, with shortfalls of natural gas and electricity price spikes anticipated as a…