How this restaurant chain is taking a different approach than Waffle House to soaring egg prices
Egg prices have soared in recent months due to avian influenza. Ed Powers has spent lots of time thinking about eggs lately. Powers is director of operations at the Broken Yolk Cafe, a chain of 40 brunch restaurants in the Western US. About 75% of the chain’s product mix is eggs, he told B-17 in…
The 11 states where $300,000 gets you the most bang for your buck when buying a home
Where home prices are lower, buyers can stretch their dollars farther on a larger house. US housing prices continue to be high, but two factors make more of a difference than most: a home’s size and location. Where overall costs are higher, home prices are higher, too. And where home prices are lower, buyers can…
I quit my 9-to-5 in crypto and started an e-commerce business that made $1.3 million in sales last year. I work 24/7 because I love it.
Yong-Soo Chung. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yong-Soo Chung, a 38-year-old entrepreneur. The following has been edited for length and clarity. B-17 verified Chung’s past employment and businesses. In 2014, I worked a 9-to-5 at what was then a crypto blockchain startup. I joined them around March 2014, and it was…
I bought my first house in Florida. I would’ve been better off if I’d done these 5 things beforehand.
A view of Pembroke Pines in Miami. Recently, I made one of the biggest personal and financial decisions of my life: buying a house in Florida. I’m a millennial from West Virginia, and I’d been living in Miami for seven years. I was excited to officially put down roots in the area I’d fallen in…
Nvidia: A complete guide to the hardware company behind the AI boom and its chips, financials, and leadership
Nvidia has become one of the world’s most valuable companies thanks to the boom in AI. Nvidia has been around for over three decades, but the chipmaker became a household name only in the past couple of years. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem “with a vision to…
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian. The Reddit moderator is something of a near-mythical creature. They are anonymous and unpaid, and some of them wield significant power over the flow of information. However, in the age of artificial intelligence, they might not be long for this world. Alexis Ohanian, who cofounded the popular internet forum site in…
Microsoft Outlook suffers global outage
Microsoft said it identified the reason for an outage that affected its Outlook email service. Thousands of people were left without access to their email on Saturday after Microsoft Outlook suffered an apparent outage. Over 35,000 complaints were posted to Downdetector, a website for reporting technical issues. Users also posted to social media to complain…
She’s a Silicon Valley success. Here’s her advice for how you can make it too.
Conviction founder Sarah Guo. Sarah Guo always knew she wanted to make it in Silicon Valley. Now, she has advice for others who want to do the same. On a recent trip to San Francisco, we sat down over breakfast with Guo, a Goldman Sachs and Greylock Partners alum who now runs her own AI-focused…
That humanities degree might come in handy if you want a job in AI, the editorial director at Google’s NotebookLM told B-17
Steven Johnson told B-17 that we’ve entered an era of the “revenge of the humanities.” Traditionally, a degree in the humanities wouldn’t translate to a job in tech — but that might change in the age of AI. In an interview with B-17, Steven Johnson, who co-founded several startups and worked as an author before…
