When one of the largest tech companies in the world announces a full-fledged return to the office, is that a sign that hybrid and remote work have come to an end? It’s a question that’s been on the mind of many business owners, says Rob Sadow, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based hybrid …
Scale AI, the data-labeling giant that uses a sprawling workforce of contract workers to help train AI models for Open AI, Google, and the Department of Defense, faces a new class action lawsuit. The suit, filed by the Clarkson Law Firm, accuses the startup of fostering an “extremely predatory” …
President-elect Donald Trump’s selection for the next leader of the Internal Revenue Service is a peddler of the popular employee retention tax credit, a pandemic-era program that quickly became inundated with fraud. Trump announced on Truth Social earlier this week that former Missouri lawmaker …
Before Wonder, Lore built and sold Diapers.com to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million and then built and sold e-commerce powerhouse Jet.com to Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Along the way, Lore says, he realized the most important things a founder can focus on are vision, capital, and people. Lore …
Instagram had been a boon to Keewa Nurullah’s Kido boutique in Chicago’s South Loop. Since it opened in 2018, Kido‘s inclusivity and representation-broadening mission, as well as its heirloom-quality toys, appealed to parents and grandparents looking for useful, educational gifts. The shop eschewed …
Serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan is sometimes referred to as the “Godfather” of NYC tech, and for good reason. After making a name for himself by growing digital advertising company DoubleClick from a startup to a public company that eventually sold to Google for $3.1 billion, Ryan co-founded a …
Welcome to this week’s Founder Focus! I’m Melissa Angell, Inc.‘s policy correspondent, and each week I’ll be dissecting some of the top policy issues small businesses face. You can sign up to get this in your inbox every week here. The beneficial ownership reporting saga drags on. Last week, a …
MasterClass is bringing its famous teachers into the AI arena. The online learning platform known for its wide variety of celebrity instructors is launching MasterClass On Call, a standalone product that will allow customers to chat with AI-powered duplicates of the platform’s teachers. The cost …
Commercial solar company Solar Landscape raked in the funding in 2024. The New Jersey-based commercial and community solar company announced Monday it raised $847 million in project financing and investment, and leased 40 million square feet of commercial rooftop space for solar panel installation …
Crypto industry companies and their executives poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2024 election season and the project was enormously successful. The vast majority of pro-crypto candidates seized victory in their races—including president-elect Donald Trump, who has pivoted from a …
