Zak Jason
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6 days ago |
businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Amanda Hoover |Henry Blodget
Before Layalie Cubina's company sold balloons that spell BRIDE, sparkle hair clips that say BABE, and heart-shaped sunglasses, her garage was home to thousands of penis straws. Cubina and her husband, Brandon, who started by selling baby bedding on Amazon as a side gig, noticed there was a swelling demand for the phallic straws and ordered them en masse in various colors in 2018.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Amanda Hoover |Henry Blodget
This past summer, I experienced a modern-day miracle: I matched on Hinge with an attractive guy, with an interesting job and hobbies, and he messaged me. He asked me on a date, planned it, and showed up (and was actually over 6 feet tall, as advertised). He asked me on a second date the next day, then a third. All seemed to be going well in a dating world defined by ghosting and low-effort meetups. That all changed when I saw his apartment. A futon was scattered on the floor in pieces.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Amanda Hoover |Henry Blodget
Two years ago, Zechariah Osburn sat down to fill out the Common Application for college. He dreaded going to school and sitting at a desk all day, but he'd always done well, so an undergraduate degree seemed like a no-brainer. His parents had pushed it, too. But staring down the application at midnight one night during his senior year, Osburn decided to scrap the plan. "I felt like a fraud," he tells me. He didn't know what kind of career he wanted, and didn't have the money for college.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Amanda Hoover |Henry Blodget
In one corner is the bespectacled tortoise, Bill Gates. In the other, the chainsaw-wielding hare, Elon Musk. Each has a very different idea about what it means to give back.
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1 month ago |
businessinsider.com | Zak Jason |Amanda Hoover |Henry Blodget
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