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2 weeks ago | 
cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr. |Raffi Paul
Industry advisors told Primal Kitchen co-founder and CEO Mark Sisson that he was "crazy" to try selling jars of mayonnaise for nearly $10 each, he says. The food blogger took the risk anyway, launching his paleo condiment and dressing brand in 2015 due to "a combination of naivete and hubris on my part," says Sisson, 71. Though Sisson's inexperience in the condiments business was a drawback, Primal Kitchen had a different significant advantage.
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1 month ago | 
cnbc.com | Celia Fernandez |Raffi Paul
When Ralph Zucker agreed to let Apple TV+ film "Severance" in Bell Works, a mixed-use development in Holmdel, New Jersey, he had no idea what journey he and the property were about to embark on. Zucker, President and CEO of Inspired by Somerset Development, and his firm bought the former AT&T research center in 2013 for $27 million and spent $273 million and over 10 years renovating the property.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Celia Fernandez |Raffi Paul
5 hours agoU.S. safety regulators on Thursday recalled virtually all Cybertrucks on the road, the eighth recall of the Tesla-made vehicles since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall, which covers more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, warned …
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2 months ago | 
cnbc.com | Celia Fernandez |Raffi Paul
In 2022, Dave Blancett, 72, and his wife Maria, 71, were living in Cape Coral, Florida, when Hurricane Ian hit. "We had storm surge. We lost our roof. We lost our pool cage," Maria tells CNBC Make It.Hurricane Ian was one of the deadliest storms in Florida's history and caused an estimated $112 billion in damage across the state. The considerable damage to their home made the Blancetts consider moving and they soon turned their sights on a "hurricane-proof" community called Babcock Ranch.
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2 months ago | 
cnbc.com | Raffi Paul |Mike Winters
This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. In 2021, Venus Wang found herself at a crossroads: newly divorced, unemployed, with less than $10,000 in cash savings and the primary parent to her child.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Raffi Paul |Mike Winters
1 hour agoConsider this your ChatGPT 101 class. ChatGPT brought artificial intelligence into the mainstream. It's one of the fastest-growing apps of all time, and has led the way for millions of other AI products to emerge. AI has fundamentally changed the way we search online, with Google's lucrative top …
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
cnbc.com | Gili Malinsky |Raffi Paul
Loren Castle did not have a certain career path in mind when she graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006. The then 22-year-oldNew York City native got a degree in communicationsand knew she liked health, wellness and business, "but I had no idea what I was going to do with my life," she says. Post-graduation, she went back to New York but planned to move to L.A. permanently to see where life took her.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
cnbc.com | Kamaron McNair |Raffi Paul
This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. Where you might see an average Goodwill Store teeming with used clothes, Brooklyn Karasack sees racks and racks of inspiration. The 27-year-old has built a massive social media following showing off her creative thrift flips where she takes a piece of clothing, a blanket, curtains or another textile and turns it into something totally new.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
cnbc.com | Morgan Smith |Raffi Paul
Before she built what would become a billion-dollar company, Angie Hicks had to conquer one of her biggest fears: talking to strangers. Hicks — one of the two co-founders of Angi, formerly known as Angie's List — is a self-described introvert. Yet she's also the namesake behind Angi, a popular online home services guide with millions of subscribers. Today, the company is worth $1.2 billion. Hicks is Angi's chief customer officer, a role she's had since 2017.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr. |Raffi Paul
This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. In 2007, Alex Smith had no designs on building a multi-state restaurant group that brings in nine figures annually. He just wanted to open an ice cream shop. Smith, now 40, was right out of college and eager to build something of his own after growing up in a family of ultra-successful entrepreneurs.
