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Key Takeaways AI both eliminated and enabled Mark Quinn’s career: It made his startup job redundant, then later acted as his career coach. Quinn created a custom career buddy AI that assessed roles and wrote outreach for him. The career buddy refined his resume, rehearsed interviews and tailored follow-ups without embellishing his experiences. At first, AI was a scapegoat. It was the reason Mark Quinn was laid off from his role as vice president of operations and responsible AI at DeepScribe, a Silicon Valley startup focused on automating medical documentation for doctors.  When Quinn joined DeepScribe after a four-year stint…

Owners are coming clean about what it’s really like to start a laundromat. The businesses became a social media sensation thanks to videos of overflowing quarter buckets promising easy passive income. But people who took the plunge tell The Wall Street Journal the reality involves costly repairs, long hours and dog hair. Atusa Parsa bought a laundromat in Fullerton, California, three years ago after TikTok convinced her it was a great investment. Nobody online mentioned she’d need police help to clear drug dealers out of the bathroom. A small laundromat costs about $300,000, and the average profit margin is 24%,…

James Ignatowich didn’t like his pickleball paddle, even though he was still winning a lot of matches with it. The four-time PPA champion and former world No. 2 player kept calling his friend Marwan Abaza to vent. The two met at a South Florida tennis tournament when they were about 12. Abaza went on to play D1 tennis and now studies computational data science. Eventually, Ignatowich told him they needed to fix it. They’d talked about going into business together since they were kids, but this is the first company for both. Last September, the pair launched RPM Pickleball with…

Published October 20, 2026 07:35AMA whining growl interrupted my sleep just after 6 A.M. The day’s first emissary—a minibike—darted past, launched from the apocalyptic armada surrounding me. Another dawn for the captains, oft bearded and bellied like Toby Keith in a Frankenstein fever dream, reawakening their doomed creations with WD-40 and a Craftsman wrench. They are Gamblers with a capital G, living by their own car-centric lexicon and a meager rule set. Mainly: Don’t be a dick. They are gearheads, sharp-witted jokers, iconoclasts who fix broken things—usually internal combustion engines. On this late June weekend in central Oregon’s high desert,…

Published October 20, 2026 12:01AMThanks to a decade of personal experience with hybrid training, Outside Run contributor Adam Meyer knows all about the challenges of lifting and running. To get the best advice on scheduling lifts around key runs, he interviewed Katie Cyrana Hillery, a physical therapist and RRCA-certified running coach, and Mike Thomson, a certified running coach and personal trainer.  Every runner has heard by now that more time in the weight room can lead to better running performance. It sounds counterintuitive, but I’m living proof that anyone can benefit from it. I’m 6’-5”, 215 pounds, and I’ve been…

Elon Musk is feeling generous today. Or maybe just competitive. “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk wrote on X. “This will be the first of many.” Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.This will be the first of many.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2026 Roughly 73 million Americans are under 18, which puts the giveaway at about $10.7 billion based on Friday’s closing price of around $146 a share, according to CNN. Musk didn’t say how the shares would be distributed…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Green dashboards don’t necessarily reflect reality. Ask, “What am I missing?” to uncover hidden risks, flawed assumptions and obstacles before they derail a project. Encourage team members to explain risks and propose solutions. Creating a culture where people feel safe raising concerns early builds trust and accountability. End meetings with action. Every concern should lead to a clear decision, an assigned owner and specific next steps. That discipline turns discussion into execution. Every executive has sat through the familiar project review. A dashboard flashes green, yellow and red. Leaders move…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A customer calls in. They’ve been with you for six years. The rep asks for their account number for the third time on the same call.I’ve sat in enough boardrooms to recognize the moment a personalization pitch starts to unravel. Someone walks through the birthday email campaign, the loyalty tier upgrades and the perfectly timed discount code. Everyone nods. Then I ask one question: What happens when that same customer calls with a problem? The room goes quiet, because everyone already knows the answer. That customer is about to repeat their account…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before adding headcount, tie the decision to a specific metric, like billable hours, open tickets or pipeline volume, that proves demand has outgrown your team’s capacity. Fix unclear roles, missing processes and unaddressed performance issues first, because hiring into chaos spreads it. Several years ago, I worked with a company that had become trapped by one employee.She was exceptionally good at a handful of critical responsibilities. She knew the systems, the customers and the history of the organization. Leadership viewed her as indispensable. Whenever concerns about her behavior surfaced, the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Lessons can lose their meaning when simplified. Turning a complex, conditional judgment into a clear rule can strip away the context that made the original decision correct. Even when knowledge, documents and people remain in place, teams may follow an old rule when the underlying conditions have changed. Reusable guidance needs to capture the circumstances, signals and boundaries that determine when a lesson applies — and when it doesn’t. The team had already learned this lesson the hard way. A major cross-functional initiative had missed an important milestone after one…