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[ad_1] Updated 2025-09-15T14:28:46Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Lumon, the sinister corporation at the heart of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” isn’t real. But the somewhat menacing building that Lumon operates from is — and it’s just 40 miles outside NYC. In real life, it’s Bell Works, the former home of Bell Labs and now…

[ad_1] Welcome back! The older you get, the tougher it can be to bounce back from the weekend. But if Sam Altman’s startup gets its way, aging doesn’t necessarily mean decline. BI’s Hilary Brueck looked at how Retro Biosciences is developing a pill to clear out the “gunk” in your brain.In today’s big story, the consulting industry is on the cusp of a big overhaul, and the rest of the business world is likely to feel it.What’s on deck:Markets: Forget equity, this hedge fund just wants a cut of revenue from the tech companies it backs.Tech: It’s tech news, but…

[ad_1] Every three months, the CEOs and CFOs of public companies repeat a familiar process: They begin preparing to disclose their quarterly earnings to investors.President Donald Trump says that cadence should change.In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said that US companies should be able to report their earnings every six months, not every three months as currently required by the SEC.”Subject to SEC Approval, Companies and Corporations should no longer be forced to ‘Report’ on a quarterly basis (Quarterly Reporting!), but rather to Report on a ‘Six (6) Month Basis,'” Trump said in his online post. “This will…

[ad_1] When Mark Lee was a law student at Harvard, a trademark class exposed him to the staggering scale of counterfeiting, an illicit industry worth more than $3 trillion annually, and set him on an unexpected path to entrepreneurship. “I was always broadly interested in technology and startups, but I never really thought I’d be an entrepreneur. I assumed I was set to become a lawyer; most of my family members are lawyers, and practicing law felt like a natural path,” Lee said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. But when he got to Harvard Law, the education wasn’t quite…

[ad_1] Deutsche Bank believes there’s much reason to celebrate heading into Micron’s next earnings release. The bank raised its price target to $175 from $155, signaling 11% upside from Friday’s close. Analyst Melissa Weathers also reiterated her buy rating on shares of the semiconductor manufacturer heading into Micron’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, scheduled for after market close on Sept. 23. Weathers pointed to supply remaining tight within the dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, business into 2026. “This supply tightness should result in healthy ASP [average selling price] growth, driving GMs [gross margins] higher (DB sees clear path to > 50%…

[ad_1] Citi believes Union Pacific looks “too compelling to ignore.” Analyst Ariel Rosa upgraded the railroad to buy from neutral. He also raised his price target to to $251 from $250. Rosa’s revised forecast is approximately 17% above where Union Pacific closed on Friday. Rosa pointed to more clarity on Union Pacific’s planned merger with fellow railroad company Norfolk Southern . While he thinks Union Pacific will face a “contentious” merger review process ahead, the likelihood of a clean merger approval with limited constraints has slightly increased and now remains in the 65%-70% range. “In July we had moved to…

[ad_1] Macquarie sees a long runway of solid growth ahead for Broadcom . The bank initiated the semiconductor manufacturer at an outperform rating. Analyst Arthur Lai also implemented a 12-month price target of $420 per share, which signals 17% upside from Friday’s close. Broadcom has soared 55% this year. And while the stock trades at a steep premium to the rest of the semiconductor space — 53 times forward earnings vs 29.55 times for the PHLX Semiconductor index — its higher valuation is justified, Lai said. AVGO YTD mountain AVGO YTD chart “We believe Broadcom should trade at a premium…

[ad_1] Last month, in Japan, venture capitalist Deedy Das was supposed to be off the grid, focused solely on proposing to his girlfriend. Two nights into the trip, the deal flow found him anyway.A founder he’d been getting to know over eight months texted to say he was kicking off a raise. Other investors were circling, but the founder wanted Das and his firm, Menlo Ventures, at the table. So between temple visits and kaiseki meals — and once when he told his girlfriend he was soaking at the onsen — Das coordinated with colleagues back home.The day after he…

[ad_1] Jackson Stokes, the 26-year-old cofounder of TrainLoop, cares about his health. Next to his fridge, Stokes showed off his apartment’s stack of supplements. Inside the fridge, he had a rotisserie chicken.”Usually we just eat a lot of salads with stuff on top of that,” he said. He pulled out a clear drawer, where he said he keeps “a lot of extra protein from Costco.”Stokes seems to be eating his protein: By the time he sent a photo of his fridge to Business Insider, the rotisserie chicken and clear drawer contents were gone.The TrainLoop cofounders pay themselves “just enough for…

[ad_1] At the defense tech and data juggernaut Palantir’s customer conference in early September, CEO Alex Karp joined the online talk show “TBPN” to take a victory lap. “We’re crushing it,” Karp said, sporting a white T-shirt and a six-figure Patek Philippe watch. “I’m the most humble I’ve ever been.”But Karp wasn’t there to talk business. Over 20-ish minutes, he confessed that he’s “an unhappy Democrat,” waxed poetic about what he thinks unifies “the woke left and the woke right,” detailed his cross-country skiing conditioning, boasted that he works on holidays, and bragged that he can hang from a bar…