Olivia Nemec

New York

Senior Producer at Business Insider

Senior Producer @businessinsider | Doing what I love most | Past: @NBCScottsbluff, @OSNPraha | @ColumbiaJourn ‘20.

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Articles

I keep my award-winning hot peppers in top secret locations with armed pickers

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Jessica Orwig |Olivia Nemec |Havovi Cooper |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with pepper farmer and founder of PuckerButt Pepper Company, Ed Currie. Currie created the Carolina Reaper, which first broke the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper in 2013 and held that title until 2023, when another of Ed's creations, Pepper X, took the new title. It has been edited for length and clarity. We grow peppers across many secret farms in South Carolina.
How ultra-spicy peppers revolutionized the multibillion-dollar hot sauce industry

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Mark Abadi |Olivia Nemec |Tyler Merkel |Havovi Cooper

The craft hot sauce business is exploding in the US as hundreds of small producers compete with centuries-old brands by launching creative flavors and using newly engineered, extra-hot peppers.
Will Trump's tariffs cost America its closest allies?

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Jose Duran |Henry Blodget

Video Explainers An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Top US allies are discussing how to make Americans "feel the pain" after Trump hit their countries with tariffs and threatened to leave NATO.
China is building the world's biggest military command center. Here's what it looks like.

2 months ago | businessinsider.com | Mark Abadi |Olivia Nemec |Erica Star Domena |Henry Blodget

Video News An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. China is building a massive military command center that's 10 times the size of the Pentagon.
Trump's team leaked a top secret war plan. Now what?

Mar 25, 2025 | businessinsider.com | Erica Star Domena |Olivia Nemec

Video News An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Top Trump officials included the editor of the Atlantic in a Signal group chat discussing plans to strike Houthis in Yemen.
How rich nations dump old cruise ships and oil tankers in developing countries

Mar 8, 2025 | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Tyler Merkel |Kashif Khan

Video News An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Gadani is the world's third biggest shipbreaking hub. But many ships come there illegally from Europe. We went to Pakistan to figure out why international laws are being ignored.
Here's what you need to know about Trump's plan for Greenland

Mar 1, 2025 | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Erica Star Domena

Video Explainers An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. President Trump says he wants to buy Greenland. We explore if that could actually happen in a video collaboration between Politico and Business Insider.
Tech Billionaires Dislike Government. Now They're Funding Trump to Change It.

Jan 29, 2025 | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Havovi Cooper |Jose Duran |Yuelei Song

Video It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Explainers An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. An curved arrow pointing right. X LinkedIn Copy Link The letter F. Description An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. President Donald Trump has picked the world's richest men to join his staff.
Drones, airplanes, or UAPs? How to tell the difference

Dec 27, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Havovi Cooper |Jose Duran

Mick West, an expert in unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, analyzes recent "drone" sightings and breaks down what we're really seeing in these selected cases. Mick West, an expert in unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, analyzes recent "drone" sightings and breaks down what we're really seeing in these selected cases.
How the world's largest animal cargo hub handles 500,000 animals a year

Dec 9, 2024 | businessinsider.com | Olivia Nemec |Havovi Cooper |Mark Miller |Manuel Silva-Paulus

Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Facebook Icon The letter F. Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Facebook Icon The letter F. Qatar hosts the biggest animal cargo center in the world. We visited the hub to see how crews keep precious loads safe in 100-degree heat.