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[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ilya Brunshteyn, a 39-year-old former salesperson and dad based in Alabama. His identity and former employment have been verified. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I started out in sales at 18, pounding the phone at a mortgage brokerage, and I’ve been working in sales since, at companies like Tesla, Wells Fargo, and Securitas Technologies.About two weeks short of Christmas last year, I got laid off. Now I haven’t been able to get a full-time sales position for nine months. I’ve been applying for a minimum of 10…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Daniel Medved, 33, a senior product marketing manager at a tech company in Seattle. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a one-man band raising my three little ones.My mornings start at 6:30 a.m., unless one of my kids comes to my room before I’m up. Those early hours are filled with getting them dressed, brushing hair, brushing teeth, and applying sunscreen in the summer.I raise my three kids here in Seattle. My oldest two daughters are in school, while my son is still in preschool until next year.Each…

[ad_1] 2025-09-18T09:00:01Z 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. Startups using AI to write code and those helping others do so are cascading inside Y Combinator. The incubator said a quarter of a recent batch generated 95% of its code using AI. Here are 6 standout vibe coding startups from the most recent Demo Day. If you…

[ad_1] For the fourth time in the past two years, Gucci has a new boss.Kering announced on Wednesday that Francesca Bellettini, former CEO of Saint Laurent, was appointed as Gucci’s president and chief executive. According to the press release, she will report to Kering’s newly appointed CEO, Luca de Meo.De Meo said in the release that Bellettini was “one of the most seasoned and respected professionals” in the industry, and her leadership would “restore the brand to its rightful place.”Bellettini is a company insider who has worked in numerous roles within Kering since 2003. Before joining Kering, she worked as an…

[ad_1] World Cup ticket sales are chaos. People are up in arms about FIFA using dynamic pricing. The lottery system to determine who even gets a chance to buy tickets is crazy-making. And if you buy tickets from a platform other than the event organizers, there’s no guarantee they actually exist. It’s called speculative ticketing, and it’s the live event industry’s dirty little secret.The way speculative ticketing works is that sellers list tickets on secondary platforms such as StubHub, SeatGeek, and Vivid Seats that they don’t actually have in their possession. In fact, speculative tickets can wind up listed online…

[ad_1] Meta’s new collection of AI-powered wearables will let you subtitle your life, text discreetly, and surf in style.CEO Mark Zuckerberg pitched AI-powered wearables as the next must-have item at Wednesday’s annual Meta Connect.”Glasses are the ideal form factor for personal super intelligence because they let you stay present in the moment while getting access to all of these AI capabilities to make you smarter, help you communicate better, improve your memory, improve your senses,” said Zuckerberg as he took the stage in Menlo Park.The announcements confirmed a leaked video from Meta on Monday, which teased a neural wristband for…

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg is spending billions on AI, but at Meta’s conference, Connect, the spotlight stayed on hardware. The social media company’s new $800 Ray-Ban smart glasses got a flashy debut, while its much-buzzed-about AI Superintelligence push was seemingly in the background. Meta’s new glasses come with a built-in screen that can display text messages, maps, and captions over the real world. What was harder to spot were the big leaps in AI that are supposed to superpower these gadgets.The only real nods to AI in the presentation at Connect were quick — and a little shaky. Zuckerberg attempted to…

[ad_1] Google’s Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month. But in India, it has taken on a creative life of its own, with retro portraits and local trends going viral — even as privacy and safety concerns begin to emerge. India has emerged as the No. 1 country in terms of Nano Banana usage, according to David Sharon, multimodal generation lead for Gemini Apps at Google DeepMind, who spoke at a media session this week. The model’s popularity has also propelled the Gemini app…

[ad_1] It has been a rough month for Cracker Barrel — but its most loyal fans appear to be sticking it out for now.Cracker Barrel reported its Q4 earnings on Wednesday, missing analyst expectations on earnings and beating on revenue. The mixed results saw shares tumble nearly 10% in after-hours trading, another knock to the chain, which has faced a barrage of criticism over its halted rebrand effort in recent weeks.But a closer read of its same-store sales and loyalty program sign-ups reveals a silver lining for Cracker Barrel: its die-hard customers seem to have doubled down.Despite a significant decline in expected…

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI glasses demo went wrong live onstage — twice.On Wednesday, the CEO took to the stage at the company’s annual Meta Connect event to reveal the second-generation Meta Ray-Bans, a neural wristband, Meta Ray-Bans Display with heads-up display, and sports-centered glasses with Oakley.To drive his point home that AI should serve people and not just “sit in a data center,” Zuckerberg connected food content creator Jack Mancuso to the big screen for a live demo on how the newly upgraded Ray Ban Meta glasses could help Mancuso cook — and that is when things began to…