The ideal career is one that’s malleable and allows you to carve your own path as you continue to learn, grow, and evolve. But walking the line of being specialized and still having the freedom to redefine yourself can be a tricky balancing act. For CFO, author, and financial literacy […]
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Entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor Mary Binder earned a French Lit degree at age 59
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Mary Binder.Courtesy of family Mary Binder: Mother. Bubby. Survivor. Entrepreneur. Born June 20, 1924, in Bodzentyn, Poland; died July 17, 2021, in Toronto, of pneumonia complications; aged 97. Strong, hard-working, dressed impeccably, wearing fabulous sunglasses reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn – that was Mary Binder. She was a Holocaust survivor, and […]
Armed with a paddle and a GoPro, entrepreneur aims to create ‘Street View’ of Puget Sound
Standing on the beach at Seattle’s Golden Gardens, Brian Footen points to the GoPro camera that captures 360-degree images every 10 seconds as he surveys Puget Sound. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) We’ve all indulged in a little voyeuristic spying and exploration using Google Maps’ Street View, peering at homes […]
15-year-old Philly entrepreneur appears on Shark Tank
I got to ask you, did the pandemic impact you at all? I mean, people did start wearing a lot of leisure wear. The pandemic, you know, impacted us like positively. I opened, you know, the SPERGO headquarters, my first store during the pandemic and the city of Philadelphia was […]
The entrepreneur behind TripAdvisor and CarGurus wants to change apartment hunting
With his last two companies, entrepreneur Langley Steinert tried to bring some reality to the often overhyped and opaque worlds of booking a hotel and buying a used car. Both those companies are now publicly traded: TripAdvisor and CarGurus. Steinert’s latest project involves helping renters understand whether that airy 2 […]
Twitter buys Nick D’Aloisio’s free chat app Sphere
Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square arrives on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images LONDON — Twitter announced that […]
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan your eyes in exchange for crypto
Worldcoin’s orb-shaped devices scan people’s eyes in exchange for cryptocurrency. Worldcoin It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie — metallic orbs that scan people’s eyes to pay them in digital currency. That’s what tech investor Sam Altman has been working on for his new start-up, a company called […]
‘Any man who takes paternity leave is a loser’: Tech entrepreneur slams Pete Buttigieg
A Silicon Valley venture capitalist says that men who take six months of paternity leave are ‘losers’ and that ‘in the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future’ which was ‘the correct masculine response.’ Joe Lonsdale weighed into the raging debate sparked by Transportation […]