Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Warren Buffett is working with Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon on a healthcare non profit. Photograph by Martin Schoeller Three of the biggest and most powerful companies in America are joining forces in a non profit push to cut healthcare costs. On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos's Amazon.com, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Chase , three companies with a collective 1 million-plus workers and a combined market capitalization of over $1.5 trillion, unveiled a non profit healthcare venture targeted at cutting spiraling costs for their employees. The partnership brings together the most powerful players in technology, insurance and finance and they aren't mincing words about the impetus of their endeavor. “The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," said Warren Buffett, in a shared press release. Added Bezos, a master of disrupting industries, “hard as … [Read more...] about Healthcare Stocks Plunge As Buffett, Bezos And Dimon Team Up To Fight “Tapeworm” Costs On Economy
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A One-Stop-App That Helps Renters Become Homeowners
Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The first-time homebuyer app, Gravy was born to be a reward platform for renters. The reward? Homeownership. Co-founder and CEO Jeff Dinter has spent a decade building software to help renters accomplish their goals. He was originally inspired by a leaking faucet and an unresponsive landlord in his own apartment. Today, millions of renters use the solutions he’s helped create to better communicate with their property managers and pay rent online. Through this experience, by listening to renters, understanding their hopes, and learning about their problems, a pattern emerged: nearly every renter wants to stop renting someday. It turns out, homeownership is an almost universal goal for the 100 million renters in America. It was at that same time that Jeff and his wife began looking to buy their first home in the suburbs of St. Louis for their growing family. Mortgage lenders and real estate agents were eager for … [Read more...] about A One-Stop-App That Helps Renters Become Homeowners
Great Leaders Know How to Reframe a Story
What sets great leaders apart from everyone else? Their ability to reframe their point of view and tell different stories. That's according to Lee Bolman , co-author of How Great Leaders Think: The Art of Reframing . "How does that work?" I ask, so he uses me as an example. He's read my blog about my husband's and my upcoming move to the Seattle area to support my husband's music career. There are two ways of looking at this story, he says. "One story is that it's good for him and a small price for you, part of two people's long-term commitment to each other. That's one version, but there's another story about how you feel rooted and in love with Woodstock and so leaving comes with a tremendous sense of loss for you." He's right--both stories are true. But how I feel about our impending move depends in a big way on which one I tell, both to myself and the people around me. I'm certainly sad to leave Woodstock for many reasons, but I choose the optimistic story, the … [Read more...] about Great Leaders Know How to Reframe a Story