Semiconductor legend Lip-Bu Tan told B-17 his strategy for investing in Nvidia competitors
Cadence Design CEO Lip-Bu Tan is reportedly one of the people being considered to become Intel’s CEO. When Lip-Bu Tan speaks, the chip industry listens. The semiconductor executive and investor has wielded his influence over most of the major names in the chip business and served on the boards of Annapurna Labs — which now…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines discusses the future of work with agentic automation
By Daniel Dines, founder and CEO, UiPath, a leading enterprise automation and AI software company. Since I founded UiPath two decades ago, our goal has been to provide a robot to every person. There are countless routine tasks in every job that stifle creativity, innovation, and productivity; we want to unleash people from the work…
Amazon resumes new US green-card applications for foreign workers, leaked memo shows
Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Amazon has resumed the green-card application process for foreign workers, a sign of an improving job market. In an internal note from late 2024, obtained by B-17, Amazon told employees that it planned to reopen PERM processing on January 6. Amazon had suspended all new PERM filings in 2023 and throughout 2024,…
I fell for a fake remote job offer scam. It taught me to trust my instincts when something feels off.
if you feel like something’s wrong with a job opportunity, trust your instinct. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ellen Davis, a New York-based writer. Her identity has been verified, and B-17 has viewed screenshots from her correspondences. This essay has been edited for length and clarity. For many, many years, I’ve…
Airlines are doubling down on flights to Europe as the continent experiences a travel boom
United Airlines say Europe remains among the biggest money-makers going into 2025 as people eagerly flock to more international destinations. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines said in recent earnings calls that they are deploying more seats than ever to Europe to take advantage of the booming travel demand, which has remained strong since the…
The CEO of Texas’ only cruise port explains how floating resorts saved it from bankruptcy
Royal Caribbean’s more than 161,330-square-foot Galveston cruise terminal can accommodate its largest ships. In the 1990s, the 200-year-old Port of Galveston almost filed for bankruptcy. It expects to earn $84 million in 2025, a 6.4% increase from the previous year. It’s an incredible turnaround. And the port’s director and CEO says it’s all thanks to…
I put a tracker on my teens’ phones. It’s for safety reasons more than lack of trust.
The author’s kids (not pictured) know that they are being tracked through their phone. My teen years were full of wild, off-grid adventures with my peers from morning to midnight. It was the 90s, and I didn’t have a cellphone, so once I drove off, I was “out of sight, out of mind,” and my…
After my oldest of 3 went to college, the house felt different. We’re not empty nesters yet, but it was still a transitional period.
The author (not pictured) has three daughters, and her oldest just went to college in August. When my oldest daughter left for college this past August, I experienced every emotion the articles warned me about: pride, sadness, excitement, and confusion. But nothing I read mentioned what it feels like to have a not-quite-empty nest. Our…
I thought having my mom live with me during her cancer treatment would be helpful. It made my own parenting harder.
The author, not pictured, had to parent her child while her parents lived with her. On a morning in late winter, not too cold because this was Florida, but noticeably chilly, my daughter didn’t have a jacket. We left the house in a hurry, and I forgot to remind her. I forgot to even think…
