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Allison Ellsworth doesn’t believe in work-life balance—and she has $100 million reasons why. The Poppi co-founder and her husband sold their soda company to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion last year, making them centimillionaires. But getting there meant taking business calls from the hospital bed after giving birth and breastfeeding on Zoom meetings. “I think it’s OK to live in chaos,” Ellsworth told The Wall Street Journal in a candid interview. “A lot of people talk about work-life balance. I think if you want to be successful, you kind of have to sacrifice that.” The 39-year-old Austin entrepreneur landed her big…
Whistler has a well-deserved reputation for winter adventure, but Canada’s premier mountain resort might just be even better after the snow melts Rainbow Park on Alta Lake in Whistler, British Columbia (Photo: Tourism Whistler/Justa Jeskova)Published May 11, 2026 09:40AMYes, Whistler’s perfect-powder days and unmatched terrain deliver some of the best skiing on the planet. You should experience it. But summer? Wow. When the snow melts, the adventure aperture widens to reveal a glacier-carved landscape that invites both action and stillness, where high-alpine ridgelines, glassy lakes, rollicking rivers, and the vibrant pedestrian Village all sit so close together you’ll want to…
In our 2026 Performance Marketing survey with Harris Poll, we asked more than 300 marketing decision-makers about the trends and investments they predicted for 2026. The biggest takeaway—75% report increased expectations for accountability. And nearly two-thirds say leaders now evaluate them based on pipeline contribution rather than traditional top-of-funnel metrics like lead volume. For years, marketers have argued for a more meaningful seat at the revenue table, one that is measured on business outcomes instead of activity. That shift is happening. Leaders are asking marketing teams to deliver revenue outcomes without giving them the visibility to understand, prove, or optimize…
401(k) match or AI? That is the question facing many companies — and many are now choosing AI. Customer experience tech company TTEC suspended its 401(k) employer match for approximately 16,000 U.S. employees through the end of 2026, saying it needs to redirect those resources toward AI investments. For a worker earning $60,000 who was contributing 6 percent of their salary, that’s $1,800 a year in employer contributions. Most companies cutting retirement benefits blame “cost pressures” or “macroeconomic conditions,” but TTEC said the quiet part out loud, telling Business Insider it’s investing in AI certifications, AI-enabled tools, training and automation.…
Tony Dang is co-founder & CTO at Infisical, an identity and security infrastructure platform.AI agents and custom AI-powered applications are rapidly becoming commonplace in production. But to implement them, engineering teams are connecting large language models (LLMs) to internal databases, customer records, proprietary codebases and operational systems.This, of course, expands the data security surface. Each time an enterprise sends a query to an LLM provider, it starts a data pipeline that flows sensitive information outside organizational boundaries. And every time an agent acts on untrusted input, it creates an opportunity for that pipeline to be exploited.As CTO of Infisical, I…
As countries continue to deal with a hantavirus outbreak linked to passengers aboard the M/V Hondius cruise ship, government and public health agencies have begun repatriating both those confirmed to have the virus and those potentially exposed to it. This includes the United States, where 17 American citizens who were on board the ship are being repatriated by the U.S. State Department. Here’s what you need to know. What’s happened? On Monday night, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) confirmed that the repatriation of Americans aboard the M/V Hondius cruise ship had begun. In a post on…
Polina, co-founder of Phenomenon Studio and product strategist. Building and scaling digital products with $500М+ raised collectively.Dark blue palette, phrases like “trusted partner” and “proven solutions” above the fold. If you work in high-stakes B2B with a complex product, you might recognize this description from your closest competitors’ websites—or even your own. Companies with long sales cycles often default to blue tones and restrained visuals to reinforce an image of stability and professionalism.But if your goal is to win more customers, color psychology alone won’t convince someone to choose you. Buyers aren’t choosing between colors—they’re choosing whoever makes it immediately…
AI use is becoming pervasive across the legal system, with both experienced staff and absolute novices turning to ChatGPT and other tools to try to make the most persuasive case possible when they arrive in court, even if some of those claims turn out to be literally too good to be true. Last month, top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell was forced to apologize for filing fictitious case names and fabricated quotes in a legal document submitted in a case, as well as citing incorrect statutes in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. “We deeply regret this occurred,” the firm wrote in…
Published May 11, 2026 03:54AMLawrence Ervin leans down and unleashes Aurnia, a seven-year-old Belgian Malinois. Sniffing for a scent, Aurnia weaves her pointed black snout through the air. A shepherding dog by lineage, Aurnia’s smooth coat of chestnut fur covers a muscular but tired body. She’s been working in this heat for four days now, sunrise to sundown. Lawrence, a flight paramedic from Del Rio, Texas, wears desert camo, a chest pack, and medical supplies strapped around his waist.He whispers into Aurnia’s pointed ear, find ghost. And she begins to run. The search team’s leader, Logan, sets a timer for…
Mark Morgan is President of Commercial Operations at Kinaxis, helping global enterprises transform supply chains with AI.The AI gold rush is no longer a metaphor. Global AI spending is projected to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, growing rapidly year over year, as hyperscalers pour hundreds of billions into data centers and compute capacity.Capital is flowing. Campuses are rising. Compute capacity is scaling at historic speed. But beneath the headlines lies a harder operational truth:AI infrastructure is scaling faster than enterprise decision-making. And that gap is becoming the real bottleneck.The New Industrial Revolution Runs On ConstraintsAI data center expansion is the…