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The two-time founder told Fortune that he approaches it the way he approaches his business: always on. "It's just like in business, you have to, consistently, every day, show up and don't have any excuses for poor performance." He said that not all his Ironman training days are great, but he has to make sure he follows his plan. It aligns with how he works.

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"The thought process is building AI products for billions of Indians, as well as supporting AI products built in India for global markets," Prayank Swaroop, a partner at Accel, told TechCrunch. India is an appealing market with the world's second-largest internet and smartphone base after China and its deep engineering talent. Still, it's also country that lacks frontier model development and hasn't produced many companies pushing the technical frontier of AI, where development remains concentrated in the U.S. and China.

Nicholson is also tasked with refining onboarding practices and defining project scopes and timelines for the Austin-based company. Adam Nicholson Adam brings a deep background in professional services leadership across mortgage and financial technology, said Tedd Smith, co-founder and CEO of FirstClose. His ability to build strong teams, streamline processes and deliver measurable results will help us further accelerate implementation efficiency and reinforce the value lenders experience when partnering with FirstClose.

"Why are we not giving incentives to companies to require them to give shares in their companies to all employees, at the same percentage of cash earnings as the CEO?" Cuban said. It is the right question to be asking. Because while the debate over wealth inequality continues, the solution has been hiding in plain sight for decades. The top 10% of U.S. households now control 67% of all wealth, while the bottom half holds just 2.5%.

Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day, with companies benefitting massively from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there is pressure to create more content than ever before to be relevant and make a living out of it, especially as more AI-generated slop is infiltrating these platforms.

The company that pioneered small launch has had a big year. Rocket Lab broke its annual launch record with the Electron booster-17 successful missions this year, and counting-and is close to bringing its much larger Neutron rocket to the launch pad. The company also expanded its in-space business, including playing a key role in supporting the landing of Firefly's Blue Ghost mission on the Moon and building two small satellites just launched to Mars.

I started there in November 2006, when there were only around 10,000 employees, and became an executive - the director of American media relations - in 2022. Google's amazing; I bleed Google colors. I loved the impact I was having, the future of opportunities I saw for myself, and the feedback I was getting as a leader. I'm also the breadwinner for my family.

"I try to instill this into the rest of the team, but certainly I feel that what we have right now is just a giant piece of shit," he told the MIT Technology Review in 2014. "Like, it's just terrible, and we should be humiliated that we offer this to the public. Not everyone finds that motivational, though."

We will neither fail, nor will we be an average outcome, and that's what we want and that's all I care about every day and all you should care about every day, and nothing else should matter,

Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, has raised a massive $1 billion round at a $11 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the deal. The round comes less than two months after the seven-year-old startup announced its previous fundraise of $300 million at a $5 billion valuation. The latest round is led by the company's returning investors Sequoia and CapitalG, the person said. Other investors in Kalshi include Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, Anthos Capital, and Neo.

Growth affects cofounders differently. One person thrives on the chaos, and the other starts waking up anxious. Research on stress physiology shows people react differently to the same stressors. Some people perceive situations as challenges and show more efficient cardiovascular responses, while others appraise the same situations as threats and show elevated cortisol and less adaptive physiological patterns. When cofounders don't possess this information, they misread each other's behavior as lack of commitment rather than different wiring.

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Working on the farm taught me patience and responsibility. We had more than 150 employees, so I learned quickly that leadership is about people. You need to listen, guide, and set an example. It wasn't glamorous work, but it gave me the foundation I still use today.

Priced at ₹109, the company's shares climbed as high as ₹161.99 before closing at ₹156.49, valuing the seven-year-old company at ₹448 billion (around $5 billion). That's well above its listing valuation of ₹315 billion (approximately $3.6 billion), and roughly 79% higher than its last private valuation of $2.8 billion in September 2024. The strong IPO highlights the remarkable growth arc of Physics Wallah, which started off as a YouTube channel run by founder Alakh Pandey in 2016.

"Women are majority of the time the planner in the in the relationship and in the family and the friends groups,"

Each year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke equivalent to one stroke every 40 seconds. Every 3 minutes and 14 seconds, someone dies of stroke. Those who survive are often left with mobility challenges and other serious long-term disabilities. Research into potential stroke rehabilitation therapies from pharmaceuticals to electrical stimulation to robot-assisted gait training devices continues to yield creative new approaches.

"I think at some point" the Supreme Court will settle the matter," Coplan said.

Cloudflare is set to acquire the AI platform Replicate. With this deal, the company aims to transform Cloudflare Workers into a " leading" platform for AI applications. Developers will soon have access to more than 50,000 AI models within the reach of a single line of code. Ben Firshman, co-founder and CEO of Replicate, emphasizes that the complexity of AI development still lies too much with developers today.

Keychain connects over 20,000 brands and retailers with 30,000 vetted manufacturers through AI-powered matching technology that eliminates these bottlenecks, turning product ideas into structured, searchable data that accelerates sourcing from months to days. The platform launched KeychainOS for manufacturers in February 2024, then immediately faced demand from retailers who needed the same end-to-end visibility for their private label programs- a signal that drove the company to develop Keychain360, a supply chain management platform designed specifically for retail private label operations.

Sequoia-backed fintech platform Aspora, which lets the Indian diaspora send money back to India, is launching a new feature for users to pay bills. This means Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) can pay utility bills or recharge their mobile prepaid plans for their family. The startup said that until now, users had to either transfer the money to their Indian accounts or ask someone to handle the bills for them.

In fact, some companies have already garnered impressive traction in key markets around the world, with regulators seeming to be intrigued by the innovative technology these companies are putting forward. With these aircraft resembling a mix of airplane and helicopter technology, the idea is that urban transport between key areas (say, a large urban center and an airport) could be much quicker and more efficient in the air than on the roads.

Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software. "You can make the best hardware on earth, but if it's hard for developers to use, they're just not going to use it," he told me.

The recent crypto boom has been marked by blockchain companies working to expand their appeal to mainstream consumers. That now includes Aave Labs, the developer behind a popular decentralized lending service, which on Monday announced plans to launch an app in Apple's App Store and opened up a waitlist for interested users. Aave is well-known in crypto as a leading project in DeFi, or decentralized finance.

Jamie Siminoff founded Ring, a video doorbell and home security company. He prefers the title chief inventor rather than CEO. He published a book titled Ding-Dong: How Ring Went from Shark Tank Reject to Everyone's Front Door. And I have to admit that it is a great title for a doorbell company.

We had retention that was 3-4 times better than other meal delivery services. We had low awareness, lots of room for product innovation, and a seemingly clear path to an IPO. Then the war broke out in Ukraine, and capital markets started to get spooked. All of the sudden, fast-growing, unprofitable consumer businesses were out of vogue. We managed to raise $32mm, not a small sum, but it felt like a failure.