This 18-year-old has 115,000 listeners for his running podcast. Read the email template he used to land $60,000 in brand deals.
Dominic Schlueter hosts “The Running Effect” podcast. The 18-year-old has 115,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and Apple, and 37,000 Instagram followers. He has earned more than $60,000 in brand deals with companies like Hoka and Liquid I.V. Dominic Schlueter started a podcast when he was 15 years old. He founded an LLC when he was 17…
Lululemon lays off 120 employees as it announces a Peloton partnership and plans to stop selling its Mirror device
Lululemon laid off 120 employees who worked on its Mirror device. Lululemon Studio’s leadership team will also depart later this year. The company announced a five-year partnership with Peloton this week. According to an internal memo obtained by Insider, Lululemon laid off approximately 120 employees on Wednesday as it announced plans to discontinue sales of…
Netflix and other streamers have to share data with creators now — but the new transparency only goes so far
The agreement to end the Hollywood writers’ strike requires the streamers to share viewership data. The data will provide the basis for writers to get paid more for hits, but only a few people can see it. More data transparency, even if it’s limited, also could have implications for advertisers. Hollywood writers are returning to…
Don’t fear the Fed: A top-ranked fund manager shares her strategy for profiting from companies set to still deliver stronger-than-expected earnings — including 7 stocks she’s bullish on
When it comes to tech investing, Nancy Tengler looks for companies taking advantage of digitization. In a tight labor market, it’s a signal that a company can improve productivity. These names she’s bullish on, including Home Depot, must have strong balance sheets and cash flow. According to the Fear and Greed Index, the stock market…
Salesforce’s chief trust officer is leaving less than 18 months in the role, internal memo shows
Salesforce Chief Trust Officer Vikram Rao is leaving the company, according to an internal memo. Salesforce’s president said Rao is taking a “new opportunity” and his last day is Oct. 15. Rao started the role in June 2022 and just returned from a sabbatical, a person familiar said. According to an internal memo obtained by…
Leaked screenshot shows Amazon is now tracking individual employee office attendance records, reversing its anonymized data policy
Amazon now shares individual office attendance records with its employees. It’s the latest move to force employees back to the office. Amazon’s return-to-office process has been unusually contentious. As the company doubles down on forcing employees back into the office, Amazon is now tracking and sharing individual office attendance records, reversing an old policy. According…
I made $107,000 last year doing voice-overs. Here’s how I started with an online course and grew to doing work for Warner Bros, Pepsi, and Google.
Christopher Tester, an actor, started offering voice-overs on Fiverr in 2017 as a side hustle. Within six months, he was making more from his voice-over work than in acting and producing. He told Insider about his brand deals and how he had changed his work in response to AI. This essay is based on an interview…
A financially independent, 32-year-old options trader who started investing in high school shares 2 strategies that helped him return 25% a year on average for the past 5 years — and 52% in his best year
Encouraged by a high school teacher, Erik Smolinski started investing in the stock market as a teen. He’s been actively trading since and today, at 32, is a financially independent multimillionaire. He shared strategies he’s used over his trading career that have helped create outsized returns. Erik Smolinski began working odd jobs at the age…
White House: GOP has all the control over potential shutdown
Administration official: “The ball is completely in their court.” The White House maintains that averting a government shutdown is entirely up to House Republicans: “The ball is completely in their court,” a White House official told CNN on Wednesday, just three days before the end-of-month funding deadline. White House aides have been closely monitoring Capitol…
