I was going into Amazon’s office 5 days a week before the RTO push. It’s helped me focus and bond with teammates.
Amazon employee Luka Emrashvili has been working from the office 5 days a week since 2022. I view working at Amazon as a big career achievement. I’m from Georgia in Eastern Europe, where working for a Big Tech company like Amazon is a big dream for a lot of young professionals. I applied to Amazon…
Disney is ditching Slack after hackers gained access, and some employees aren’t happy. Read the CFO’s memo.
A hacking group claimed it had accessed Disney’s Slack messages and files in July. Two months later, Disney’s CFO announced the company was moving away from using Slack. Disney is gearing up to stop using the messaging platform Slack, causing apparent grumblings in some corners of the company. The media giant plans to discontinue its…
iPhones are suggesting people ‘Check In’ with their exes. Yikes!
Apple iPhones are suggesting that some people contact people they’re associated with, like their exes, as part of its “Check In” feature. One of the nice safety features from last year’s iOS for iPhone was “Check In.” You can set up a Check In to alert a contact when you’ve reached your destination — and…
Inbolt, a French startup using AI to help factory robots ‘see,’ just raised $16.7 million using this 12-slide pitch deck
Inbolt cofounders Rudy Cohen, Louis Dumas, and Albane Dersy. Inbolt, a Paris-based 3D vision and AI startup, has raised €15 million ($16.7 million) in Series A funding. The startup wants to make factory production lines more efficient by using 3D vision and AI to help guide robotic arms with greater precision and speed. Inbolt’s software…
I always knew I wanted to launch a startup in India — so I made 2 key career moves in the US first to minimize the risks
Bhide moved back to India in January after nearly a decade in the US. I always knew I wanted to build something of my own. I came up with my first idea in my second year of college, when I was studying overseas at the University of Pennsylvania. During a trip back home to India,…
Schematic wants to outsource billing software with a few lines of code. Here’s the pitch deck it used to raise $4.8 million.
Schematic cofounders Giovanni Hobbins, Jasdeep Garcha, Fynn Glover, and Ben Papillon Schematic, a startup that develops software to help companies manage pricing and billing, has raised $4.8 million. Founded in 2023, Schematic has built a platform that lets businesses add pre-made software components to their website or app. These include embeddable user interfaces, flexible APIs,…
Nike and Adidas veterans are backing a $125M project seeking to revitalize the Portland sportswear industry
Leaders in the sportswear industry are investing in a newly proposed development campus in Oregon. The Northeast is the ancestral home of footwear manufacturing in the US, where New Balance still assembles more than 4 million pairs of sneakers each year. But much of the industry resides in Portland, Oregon, and its surrounding suburbs, home…
My mom died when she was 48. I’m 46, and I’m worried I won’t see my kids grow up.
The author worries that he will die young, like his mom did, and he won’t be there to see his kids grow old. I felt a tremendous sense of guilt when my mother unexpectedly died on Christmas Eve in 2004 at the young age of 48. My parents were preparing to move from central Illinois…
I avoided paying for day care when I was a single mom. It was hard, but I’m glad I did it.
Ashley Archambault managed to avoid paying for day care when she was a single mom. When I had my son, I was determined to avoid putting him in day care while I worked. It wasn’t just that I didn’t love the idea, but as a single mom, I would never have been able to make…
