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15 hours ago | businessinsider.com | Mykenna Maniece |Creshonda Smith |Henry Blodget

After getting my first job at 14 years old, I became hardwired to feel like my life would be a combination of school, work, and limited play until I retired. That mindset followed me everywhere, including across the Atlantic, when my husband, children, and I moved from Cleveland to Rome in 2014. After spending time in Italy's capital, we decided to move our family farther south to Mormanno — a quiet town tucked in the mountains with less than 3,000 people — and have been there since.

19 hours ago | businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Samantha Stokes |Henry Blodget

For Gaurav Jain, there's no such thing as "too early" when it comes to making a VC investment. During the last decade, he's built a reputation as one of the most influential early-stage investors in venture capital: first at Founder Collective, and, since 2016, at Afore Capital, the fund he cofounded to make pre-seed investments at a time where rounds of at that size and dollar amount had a negative connotation in the industry.

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Sam Fellman |Lauren Frias |Henry Blodget

An Air Force official told Air and Space Forces Magazine that the service is coordinating with the White House and Boeing "to further define the requirements and acceleration options while ensuring we provide a safe, secure, and reliable aircraft for the president." Trump has previously expressed his frustration with receiving the next-generation Air Force One, suggesting earlier this year that he may seek "alternatives, because it's taking Boeing too long." Despite the backlash, the...

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Haven Orecchio-Egresitz |Jacob Shamsian |Laura Italiano |Natalie Musumeci

While R&B singer Cassie Ventura was in a decadelong relationship with Sean "Diddy" Combs, her music career was floundering. Ventura testified in Combs' criminal sex-trafficking trial on Tuesday that the hip-hop mogul "stifled" her career over the years. Instead of working on her music, Ventura told the Manhattan jury, she spent days participating in and recovering from "freak offs" — which she described as drug-fueled, sexual performances with escorts designed to satisfy Combs.

1 day ago | businessinsider.com | Steven Tweedie |Dominick Reuter |Henry Blodget

Target's former chief diversity officer is weighing in on the backlash the retailer has faced over its rollback of DEI policies. Caroline Wanga, who left Target in 2020 and is now CEO of Essence, told NBC's Today show on Friday that Target "didn't walk away from DEI. They trained it.""If you do this thing right, you create a way that gives goals that can be measured to incent people into the behavior," she said.