Tom Huddleston Jr.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr. |Raffi Paul

Daniel Goetz spent many late nights as a college senior cutting and blending fresh fruits, and freezing them into popsicles to sell to parched customers near the University of Texas at Austin. The advertising major fell in love with Mexican ice pops, called paletas, while visiting Mexico City with his college girlfriend. Inspired, Goetz started mocking up potential brand names and doodling logos during a class in 2009.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

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Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as a "Godfather of AI," says the technology he helped create is getting increasingly scary — and not enough people are taking the risks of artificial intelligence seriously. "There's risks that come from people misusing AI, and that's most of the risks and all of the short-term risks.

1 week ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Mark Cuban gave the co-founders of cloud storage company Box a highly valuable piece of advice, says Box CEO Aaron Levie: "Never hedge your bets."Levie launched Box in 2005, when he was still a student at the University of Southern California, alongside three of his friends. Searching for seed funding, the co-founders cold-emailed Cuban. To their surprise, he responded, eventually giving them a $350,000 investment, says Levie.

2 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Tom Huddleston Jr.

Richard Branson says the biggest reason he's a billionaire today is because he trusts his instincts — and he's not discouraged when people tell him a new venture is "crazy" or doomed to fail. Instead, Branson takes those doubts to heart: He listens to his advisors so as to consider every possible pitfall of a new venture. Once those issues are identified, Branson says he takes the necessary precautions to "protect the downside" before forging ahead.