Despite being based in South East Asia, Letou’s CEO is from the UK and has taken the unique step of giving something back to the Welsh community. Football fans occupying corporate seats at games are often accused of being more interested in the snacks on offer at half-time than actually watching the match. And Swansea […]
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I left my corporate job, and these 8 things became clear
Shutterstock/natalia_maroz Many dream about leaving behind corporate life. Reporting to no one but yourself. A seven-second commute to your screened-in porch. Nine months ago, I did it. After more than two great decades at Procter & Gamble, I made the leap — a planned exit from corporate life to go all-in on my former side hustle of […]
‘Okja’ Trailer: Family Adventure Meets Corporate Espionage in Bong Joon-ho’s New Netflix Film
There have been plenty of movies where an unsuspecting kid stumbles upon some kind of friendly creature, only to have the government or some greedy corporation want it for their own purposes. However, you’ve never seen that story in the hands of a director like Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer). Okja can best be described as E.T. […]
AR/VR Weekly: Keep your stinkin’ corporate hands off the metaverse
The Metaverse™, as brought to you by Big Bad Mega-Conglomerate®. It’s one of Tim Sweeney’s big nightmares for the future of virtual reality. The Epic Games CEO spoke about this at our recent GamesBeat Summit. He worries that the major platforms will want to lock down key advancements in virtual reality, to the point that […]
‘They do not see value in their own companies!’ — Corporate executives are selling stocks in droves
MGM/Legally Blonde A divide has formed in the US equity market. As the investing public has continued to devour stocks, sending all three major indexes to record highs in the last few months, corporate insiders have been offloading shares to an extent not seen in seven years. Selling totaled $ 10 billion in March, according to […]
A nonprofit set up by a hedge fund legend is tackling the No.1 question for corporate America
Ford Corporate America is out of touch. A majority of Americans believe that corporations are headed in the wrong direction, and that business leaders do not understand the challenges they face. The biggest question in corporate America right now is how to change that. For some, increased regulation is the answer, while others propose deregulation. […]
Corporate CEOs have failed to engage with startups
GUEST: It’s time for corporate boards to add “startup engagement” to their CEOs’ job descriptions. CEOs know it’s important to engage with startups, but startlingly few seem to do it themselves. Too often this critical responsibility is shrugged off to other company departments, including innovation, business development, marketing, and PR. This is just not enough. […]
The truth about corporate tax cuts
Business Insider I joined Business Insider Editor-in-Chief Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of The Bottom Line. We discussed the pros and cons of President Trump’s proposed tax cuts, which would slash income tax rates on businesses from 35% to 15%. Most economists will tell you that lower business tax rates tend to lead to higher economic growth […]
It’s 2017 but Moto just released a corporate rap song
I’m of the firm belief that the rap song describing what just happened in the film you watched — think Men in Black or Deep Blue Sea — is one of humanity’s greatest artforms. But you can’t just take that formula and apply it willy-nilly, as Moto showed this week. The company decided, in the […]
A Google X employee collapsed on the job, and coworkers say corporate culture is to blame
On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California’s Central Valley. The men were there to test experimental drones […]
