How Segment's Peter Reinhardt built a successful co after crashing and burning

BI PRIME: Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt tried and failed to build his company two times. Here's how he turned his company's failure into a success after blowing through half a million dollars. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

How accurate Chipotle's calorie counts really are (2015)

Find out which ingredients Chipotle overdoes it on, and which the Mexican-food chain is stingy with. | Continue reading


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How Different Cultures Understand Time (2014)

Time may seem universal, but different cultures interpret it very differently. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Las Vegas Vertical Farm Produces over a million pounds of produce every year

Oasis Biotech says it has invested nearly $30 million in the regional economy, created more than 100 jobs, and developed a sustainable model for local agriculture. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The Truth about Humanely Raised Chicken

It looks brutal in there. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

I found a way to see the total amount of money I've spent on Amazon since 2006

If you're an avid Amazon shopper, you've probably built up quite a balance in total purchases. There's a way to look up how much money you've spent on Amazon. Here are 7 steps to pull data from your account, download it as a CSV file, and import it into a Google spreadsheet to ta … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg used failed login attempts to hack user emails

Here's an analysis of the technique -- and what it reveals. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Why are human faces unique?

Evolution made you more unique than you know. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Inside chat app Symphony's battle to break into a $28B Wall Street market

BI PRIME: Banks, asset managers, and even Google have invested almost $300 million into Symphony, a secure, cloud-based chat platform conceived as a hub for any and all financial work. The goal for: to help build a viable competitor to Bloomberg LP. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

[R]eal-life Iron Man jet suit is now available to buy – will cost $443,000

There are two mini engines on each arm and one on the back allowing you to control your movement just by moving your hands. The fuel is also stored in the backpack and the suit has 1050 bhp in total. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Weebly Founder Recalls Being Mocked by CEO in Front of Audience About His Idea

BI PRIME: Twelve years ago, Weebly CEO David Rusenko was told told by a prominent tech CEO that his idea for his company was "the worst idea ever." | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Sergio Marchionne, a legend of the modern auto industry, dead at 66

Former FCA and Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne has died at 66. He had reportedly been in a coma in intensive care in a Zurich hospital after complications from surgery. Marchionne was an auto-industry legend, leading a turnaround at Fiat and taking Chrysler from bankruptcy to renew … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Major Study Finds the US Is an Oligarchy

Government serves special interests, not people. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Amazon reportedly had a 300-person conference call to deal with the Prime Day

Amazon's servers couldn't handle the amount of traffic on Prime Day, causing the company to launch a backup landing page and cut off all international traffic, according to documents obtained by CNBC. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Responds: Cover Your Short Position. Now. (2010)

An open letter. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Robot that teaches kids to code is crowned Europe's best startup

Polish startup Photon Entertainment, innovators of a robot that helps children take their first steps in the world of programming, has just been awarded the title of best startup in Europe — and now they're expanding overseas. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Elon Musk ordered Tesla engineers to skip a critical brake test on Model 3S

Internal documents show that Tesla CEO Elon Musk ordered his staff to remove the brake-and-roll test from mandatory tasks on the Model 3 production line. This is a standard test that checks wheel alignment and brake function. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

What it's actually like to hear voices in your head

There's a stigma that hearing voices in your head is a sign of mental-health issues. There's a community of people on Reddit who turn that stigma on its head. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Coinbase customer service still sucks

Among the most egregious allegations found in a number of complaints filed with the SEC are the claims that Coinbase "stole" cryptocurrency holdings from its users, repeatedly ignored customer complaints regarding missing funds, and systematically defrauded its customers. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Tesla has made 6000 Model 3s in June

Tesla is in a race to ramp up its manufacturing of the Model 3 — a process CEO Elon Musk has called "production hell." The effort has been beset by bottlenecks, and the company has gone as far as flying equipment in from Germany to speed up the process. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Hackers in China infected computers that control satellites in the US and Asia

Security software company Symantec revealed Tuesday that a campaign based in China had hacked into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecom companies in the US and southeast Asia. The company said the hackers were driven by national espionage goals. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Astronaut Hadfield: Rockets from NASA, SpaceX, and BO Won't Take People to Mars

Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, says the future rockets and spaceships of NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would be too risky to get people to and from Mars. He thinks we need some possibly "outlandish" solutions for space travel to make round-trip travel to the red planet pract … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Chinese investors are inflating housing markets in the US, Canada, and Australia

Chinese investors will put $1.5 trillion into assets abroad over the next decade, with about half of that going into foreign property. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

High tech is born in war – not Silicon Valley (2017)

Technology is a major foundation of national power. Technologies that define an era usually come from a major geopolitical power. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

People are kicking Starship Technologies' food delivery robots

Starship Technologies co-founder Ahti Heinla told Business Insider that people sometimes kick the company's food-delivery robots. He said the vast majority of interactions with its bots are harmless, but some fall victim to being an 'anger management' tool. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Uber CEO memo instructs employees to say they 'have the D' in meetings

BI PRIME: In a memo obtained by Business Insider, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi describes a new company policy designed to eliminate "bureaucracy creep" at the growing company, which is set to go public next year. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft has been talking about buying GitHub

BI PRIME: Microsoft has held talks to buy GitHub, people close to the companies told Business Insider. The two have had on-and-off conversations over the years, but talks have grown more serious in the past few weeks. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

These are the 23 highest-paying jobs at Apple

Who makes more, engineers or software developers? We've ranked the highest paying jobs at Apple according to salary. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Death of Suburbia

What you need to know | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips

The social credit system is made up of blacklists punishing citizens for bad behavior by preventing people from traveling, getting loans or jobs, or staying in hotels, and also by limiting internet access. A national system that scores citizens has been compared to "Black Mirror. … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Ocado's Warehouse where thousands of robots zoom around a grid to pack groceries

The facility is fitted with automated robots that take crates of products to pick stations where picking robots or humans then assemble the orders for shipping. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The idea that most successful startup founders are in their twenties is a myth

Startup founders are more likely to be in their forties than their twenties, a new study by MIT reveals. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The cost of producing solar power is rapidly declining

The cost of solar power is decreasing so rapidly, it's actually cheaper than coal, based on some analyses. That shift is a sign of a potential boom in renewable | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

People in California are microdosing on LSD

Microdosing is using a tiny amount of LSD for performance enhancement rather than for seeking a psychedelic experience. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Bitcoin could replace cash in 10 years

Bitcoin bounces back after tax season but cash use is declining steadily. In the future, it's quite possible that fiat currency will disappear, leaving digital | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

Rents are going up in almost every city Amazon is looking at for its 2nd HQs

Nashville and Denver would see the largest price increases if they won the sweepstakes in the competition for Amazon's next location, Zillow says. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 6 years ago

It's insanely expensive to build a startup in San Francisco right now

In the past five years the cost of operating a startup in SF has doubled. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

It's insanely expensive to build a startup in San Francisco right now

It’s becoming more and more expensive to scale a startup in San Francisco. In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. According to data from Jones Lang LaSalle, office prices in San Francisco have nearly doubled in five years from $36 per square … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

10 things in tech you need to know today

Twitter beat revenue expectations, GoPro stock was down 15%, and Pandora stock was down over 20%. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

10 things in tech you need to know today

Good morning! It's a cold day in New York. We're due for some garbage weather this weekend. Here's the tech news you need to know going into the weekend. 1. Twitter beat revenue estimations in its Q4 earnings report. But it had 288 million monthly active users, short of the 295 m … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

An Internet Entrepreneur Sold This San Francisco Apartment For $6 Million — And He's Giving It All Away To Charity

This millionaire isn't looking to profit from his real estate. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

An Internet Entrepreneur Sold This San Francisco Apartment For $6 Million — And He's Giving It All Away To Charity

Lorry Lokey, founder of media-relations site Business Wire, has sold his stunning San Francisco apartment for $6 million, Curbed SF reports. Lokey bought the home for $4.6 million in 2006, but he isn't looking to turn a profit on the sale. A signer of the Giving Pledge, Lokey ple … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 9 years ago

Why Silicon Valley's Elites Are Obsessed With Poker

"It was meant to basically put together 9 or 10 of the most competitive people in Silicon Valley and play poker," Palihapitiya, who's been hosting home poker nights for a few years now, told Business Insider. "Once you get this competitive group of people together on the same tab … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 10 years ago

Why Silicon Valley's Elites Are Obsessed With Poker

Every month, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest power players meet at the Palo Alto home of Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive who now runs his own venture capital firm Social+Capital. The guest list reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley’s true elites: from Yammer … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 10 years ago

Why Silicon Valley's Elites Are Obsessed With Poker

Every month, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest power players meet at the Palo Alto home of Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive who now runs his own venture capital firm Social+Capital. The guest list reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley’s true elites: from Yammer … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 10 years ago

Microsoft Is Sick Of PowerPoint, Too

When was the last time you saw someone under 30 fire up a PowerPoint instead of a Prezi when giving a talk? Microsoft hopes to put the kabosh on that with Sway. | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 10 years ago

Microsoft Is Sick Of PowerPoint, Too

We can't even remember the last time we saw someone under 30 fire up a PowerPoint instead of a Prezi when giving a talk. Microsoft hopes to put the kibosh on that with Microsoft Sway, its new presentation app. Sway lets you drag and drop photos, videos, files from your computer, … | Continue reading


@businessinsider.com | 10 years ago