Silicon Valley investor Bill Gurley said to follow this lesson for success from MrBeast

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Jimmy Donaldson sitting on a white chair, wearing a gray suit.
Donaldson has said he spent hours Skyping with peers, learning how to make it big on YouTube.

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A gap year program is lining up six-figure startup salaries for teens

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Oliver Zhou
Oliver Zhou, founder of Common Gap and Deep24

Oliver Zhou

David Sacks sees 2 cities replacing NYC and SF as finance and tech capitals

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White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks speaks with President Donald Trump.
White House AI and crypto czar David O. Sacks speaks with President Donald J Trump before he signs an executive order about pediatric cancer research and artificial intelligence, in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Sept 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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We're cofounders who left Amazon to build our own startup. We learned the hard way why Big Tech habits don't always translate.

Tech Insider : Business
Two people stand beside a large screen displaying the Agefully app, which promotes an AI-powered day companion for older adults and their families.
Andy Ratsirason and Shalini Aggarwal left Amazon at seperate times but reunited to run their AI startup, Tenafli.

Courtesy of Andy Ratsirason and Shalini Aggarwal

Universities risk becoming passive arms of Silicon Valley if they don't question how AI shapes truth, a professor says

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Engineering students at the International Technology Olympics, Pardis Technology Park, in Tehran, on October 28, 2025.
A professor says AI didn't cause the crisis in education — it exposed it.

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It used to be for shopping and lipstick. Now, a Chinese app is a haven for tech workers to swap AI intel.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Brandon Chen standing in a Berkeley workspace holding a copy of
Brandon Chen stands in a Berkeley workspace holding a copy of "The Startup Owner's Manual."

Brandon Chen

Meet the branding agency behind the buzzy TBPN podcast

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Day Job cofounders Spen Madsen and Rion Harmon.
Day Job cofounders Spen Madsen and Rion Harmon.

Yoshihiro Makino

An AI startup's viral LinkedIn story and the 'fake it till you make it' approach

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Technology
Photo collage of a man, someone tying, and a Linkedin logo
Two AI startup founders who started Fireflies.ai said that they initially pretended to be AI to validate their product idea.

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI

Inside the Silicon Valley etiquette class teaching founders charisma, couture, and caviar confidence

Tech Insider : Business, Style, Technology
An example of what a founder should wear for a presentation
Young tech founders look on as a model from Wilkes Bashford takes to the catwalk, demonstrating an outfit suitable for a presentation.

Slow Ventures

Meta's product managers are vibe coding prototype apps and showing them to Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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