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Before Nathalie Miller decided to walk away from Instacart, the grocery delivery start-up now worth more than $2 billion, she made a spreadsheet to analyze how much money she was leaving on the table. She had been Instacart’s 20th employee, managing operations during a period of extremely rapid growth, and the sum could have been…
Hi everyone. Today, while driving past a pizza place, I noticed something: The dude who normally stood at the corner wearing a toga and spinning a giant arrow sign pointing the way to the shop had been replaced by what looked like a cardboard cutout. It was holding the giant arrow, but the sign was hooked to…
Dow Chemicals this week settled a billion-dollar lawsuit after determining, essentially, that it had no chance in front of a Supreme Court without Antonin Scalia. Dow was challenging a 2013 order that required it to pay $1.06 billion as part of an antitrust suit concerning the sale of urethanes. (The company was accused of price…
“Too slow,” where have we heard that one before? Getty Images cache miss 1613:single/related:1a31501ece0b7141312fc72c09a6000e empty There’s a story going around today that the Web is too slow, especially over mobile networks. It’s a pretty good story—and it’s a perpetual story. The Web, while certainly improved from the days of 14.4k modems, has never been as…
Last week, Vox Media’s SB Nation published “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?”, a 12,000-word profile of a 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer who this winter was tried for raping 13 black women while on duty; convicted on 18 of 36 charges of rape, sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy, and burglary; and sentenced to 263 years…
View this image › Wells Fargo ATM bank machines are shown at one of their new retail banks in Carlsbad, California January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake Mike Blake / Reuters ID: 8082612 America’s big banks collected over $11 billion in overdraft fees in 2015, according to a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,…
You may have seen a story kicking around these here internets over the weekend — that is, if you weren’t busy laughing at Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz celebrating their second-and-third-place victories in South Carolina. The story involved a Yelp employee who dared to criticize the company publicly for employee mistreatment, then was almost immediately fired….
Facebook unleashed its new Reactions on the world yesterday. Instead of just “liking” a post, you can also now tell your friends, coworkers, and family how you really feel (assuming your feels are limited to “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry”). But they’re not the only ones. You can now also share your deepest (six)…
If you’ve been searching on Google’s mobile site, you may have started seeing a selection of news articles from various publishers at the top of the search results, in a carousel that allows you to swipe from one to the other. And in the corner of the “card” for each article you might have noticed…
It’s time! This week, news that Hamburg banned coffee pods from government buildings set off a larger conversation about why we’re still giving our money to companies like Keurig and Nespresso. Let’s be honest: It’s time for the whole world to stop buying coffee pods. The news from Hamburg comes a year after Keurig announced…