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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Bialecki, the 40-year-old CEO of Klaviyo, based in Boston. It's been edited for length and clarity.

I got a BA in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics from Harvard. While in college, I interned at a small division of Microsoft that managed the MSN.com website.

After graduating in 2007, I worked at several

• AI is coming for the middle managers — again.
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• IBM's senior VP said human managers won't manage agents "in the same way as we manage people."

Every few years, corporate executives call for a "Great Flattening," arguing that their

• Companies have scrambled to adopt AI in the workplace.
• Now they want to measure how well their employees understand and use it.
• Workera's CEO says measuring effective use of AI is the next phase of the AI boom.

Executives are hyping their AI adoption rates like it's their quarterly revenue

• Pokémon's popularity has boosted trading cards as investments.
• One Piece cards have soared in demand, with rare cards selling for thousands.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! is set to celebrate its 30th anniversary, maintaining its strong presence in the collectibles market.

The power of Pokémon is drawing new collectors

• The creator economy is getting a boost with AI-fueled investments.
• Business Insider asked venture capitalists which creator startups they felt showed promise.
• Here are 17 startups to watch in areas from AI tools to live

The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, and the world’s appetite for GPU compute had not yet tipped […]

The UK hyperscaler has now raised over $4.5bn across equity rounds in less than six months, and says it is the largest Series C ever closed in Europe. That claim deserves scrutiny. When Josh Payne founded Nscale, the company was barely a year old, and the world’s appetite for GPU compute had not yet tipped […]

• McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski's Big Arch taste test started a fast-food authenticity war.
• CEOs from rival fast food chains started posting their own taste tests to poke fun at Kempczinski.
• Despite its CEO being labeled cringey, McDonald's remains the center of the conversation.

When McDon

There's something going on at Steak 'n Shake lately. It's put up giant American flags and axed microwaves. Its pinned tweet is a picture of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Judging by the fast-food chain's social media, it's really into beef tallow. It celebrates a special dubbed "Tesla Tallow Tuesday" from 2:22 pm to 4:20 pm each week and

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 2026, anarchists severed electrical cables near Bologna on the opening day of the Milan–Cortina […]

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 2026, anarchists severed electrical cables near Bologna on the opening day of the Milan–Cortina […]

Telura has come out of stealth with €4 million and a bold claim: it can make deep geothermal economically viable almost anywhere on Earth. The problem with geothermal energy has never been the heat. The Earth’s core sits at roughly 5,000 degrees Celsius, and the thermal gradient beneath the surface is consistent enough that, in […]