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Netflix's earnings call on Wednesday reflects the market’s shifting appetite from growth to margin. The streaming platform has morphed its nomenclature, emphasizing profits over growth. Despite anemic subscriber growth, the firm's bottom-line beat resulted in the stock moving higher. In the earnings call, the firm replaced the term growth with profitability as their go-to word for the call.
Founded in 2017 by a pair of Columbia Business School alums, Otherland candles are not objects that emit a soft scent sit in the background. These are avant-garde statement pieces with the intention of attracting millennial and Generation Z buyers. Co-founder and CEO Abigail Cook Stone started out as an art buyer for Ralph Lauren, and while noting she has been "mildly obsessed with candles" her whole life, Stone says she found the best candles were often too expensive, but budget-friendly options often had extra-sweet fragrances with lackluster designs. Recognizing a gap in the market, Stone says she came up with the idea for Otherland as a modern candle brand with extra verve.
The first substantial Tesla Model S versus Porsche Taycan comparison has hit the internet, and it shows the Porsche crushing the less expensive Tesla in build quality, handling, and even acceleration. Here’s a look at the head-to-head between the two most impressive high-volume EV sedans on earth.
The video , part of the German TV Channel Vox’s show “Auto Mobil,” begins with the host Alexander Bloch driving the new 750 horsepower Porsche Taycan Turbo S from Luxembourg 87 miles to an airport runway in Germany, where a Tesla Model S P100D waits in a hangar.
In the video’s conclusion, both hosts say that, in terms of performance and build quality, the Taycan is clearly better than the Tesla Model S, though Boch voices his displeasure with the Porsche’s charging speed and range.
NBA inches closer to connected basketball technology
Chips in basketballs? Don't be surprised, as the NBA is joining other leagues and college programs in experimenting with new technology.
Kentucky is among the programs that have adopted a basketball equipped with a data sensor along with wearable motion-tracking devices on players that are tied into a system known as ShotTracker.
Influencer Marketing: the $68M secret you don't know - GoDaddy Blog
Pura Vida Bracelets reported $68.3M in revenue on the way to acquisition by Vera Bradley, and they attributed much of their success to influencer marketing.
As soon as social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube made it possible for the average person to become a content creator — someone who could create their own brand, their own following, their own influence — the game officially changed.
Larry Kim, CEO at MobileMonkey and founder of WordStream (which was acquired by Gannett for $150 million), explains why you need to be constantly testing in order to experience the full potential that influencer marketing has to offer.
The Impossible Whopper is driving steady traffic to Burger King, data shows
Location data reveals that the introduction of Burger King's meat-alternative patties increased traffic at the global fast-food franchise.
Data reveals that the introduction of Burger King's meat-alternative patties increased traffic at the global fast-food franchise both during city-specific testing as well as after a nationwide rollout.
The success of the meat-less Impossible Whopper have kept investor expectations reasonable and put Burger King on track for a 3.5% bump in U.S. same-store sales, the Barclays team added.
From Apple to wineries, California companies turn to solar amid outages
As climate change threatens to make power outages more frequent, California businesses are turning to solar-powered systems to protect their operations when the lights go out.
Google, based in Mountain View, which says in its sustainability report it has matched 100 percent of its operations electricity with renewable energy, notes its location as a factor in its efforts.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk tweeted during the outages that he would be adding Powerpacks, or battery storage systems for larger commercial applications, to the electric car manufacturer’s Supercharger fueling stations.
Google affiliate begins drone deliveries in Virginia town
A Google affiliate started using drones Friday to deliver customers' Walgreens and FedEx purchases in a test being run in a Virginia town. Wing, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet,...
A Google affiliate started using drones Friday to deliver customers’ Walgreens and FedEx purchases in a test being run in a Virginia town.
Susie Sensmeier received a purple winter vest she ordered from Dicks Sporting Goods delivered by a drone to her front yard.
How I Created A Software To Manage Gyms And Reached $100K/Month In Revenue - Starter Story
Hey everyone, I'm Dan Uyemura - CEO of PushPress. PushPress is a modern boutique gym management system. Our mission is to help gyms manage and grow their business more efficiently than their competition, allowing them to win out their local market. To date, we’ve bootstrapped our busi...
We had a drop-dead date to go live and make the flip for the gym and I remember pulling an all-nighter that night, bouncing from a Starbucks to a Denny’s and eventually launching PushPress from a 24-hour donut shop at about 4:45 am.
Hubspot , Slack , Stripe , Datadog , Google for Business , Zoom , Intercom , Zapier , Xero , Profitwell , Acuity , Github … these are just some of the key platforms and tools we use daily to make PushPress happen.
Drink at Your Own Risk: Liquid Death Hires Witch Doctor to Hex Its Water
Los Angeles-based Liquid Death, created by a former ad and entertainment veteran, hires a “real witch doctor” to curse its canned H2O.
“Certified Cursed for October,” with a video showing the dark ritual that put the evil whammy on the product, is Liquid Death’s most recent attention grab, from independent agency Party Land.
A few months ago, Cessario announced that he’d secured $1.6 million in funding from C-suite luminaries like Jen Rubio (Away), Biz Stone (Twitter) and Michael Dubin (Dollar Shave Club), as well as startup studio Science Inc.
The "Great Wealth Transfer" will see an estimated $68 trillion passed down from baby boomers. By 2030, millennials will be five times richer than they are today.
"While the inheritance component is hard to quantify with the current data available, there are still many millennials who are not considered wealthy today, but will be in the future," the report stated.
Paul Donovan, chief global economist of UBS Wealth Management, previously told Business Insider's Jim Edwards that millennials will be the richest generation ever.
Traditionally, the criticism and red tape surrounding podcasting is some form of, “no one is going to listen” or “there’s already so many.” These are actually two opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to an answer, and often causes stalemates within departments trying to push for it.
As we’ve seen with cord cutting and SVOD (streaming video on demand), people will choose content that puts them in the driver’s seat.
Chillhouse’s Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton on Building a New Flagship and Breaking Barriers in Wellness
Even if you haven’t had the chance to visit Chillhouse—New York City’s sleek, Lower East Side outpost for massages, five-free manicures, and adaptogenic lattes—you’ve likely double-tapped a photo of their chic nail art or pastel-hued interiors. Though its doors have been open for just over two years, the brand has grown a massive following both online and off. The hotspot is frequented by tastemakers and celebrities alike and has enjoyed an outpouring of goodwill from investors eager to support the potential of the business, and of its founder, Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton.
It’s easy to see why: A visit to the cafe and wine bar turned day spa (even just to hunker down with a laptop and a matcha latte) certainly feels like a splurge, but steers clear of coming off as too stuffy or pretentious. There’s the well-priced service menu of facials, massages, manicures, and soon, pedicures, which offer the kind of respite New Yorkers crave amidst the everyday grind.