What the ceo wants you to know

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Michael Saylor’s new job looks a lot like his old job: adding bitcoin to the balance sheet of his business-software company with religious fervor. “I'm a bitcoin maximalist, I happen to believe that bitcoin is an instrument of economic empowerment, it'll be beneficial to eight billion people,” Saylor told Forbes in an interview. “I also happen to believe that bitcoin is unique,” he continues, because of “the Immaculate Conception, decentralization, and its commodity status. All of these things make it the superior asset in the space.” The Immaculate Conception he means is the founding of bitcoin, as explained in a 2008 white paper by one or more people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto. Saylor stated that bitcoin is the only crypto asset which is truly decentralized and without an issuer. He backs bitcoin as a corporate investment in part because he believes there is regulatory agreement among U.S. regulators that bitcoin … [Read more...] about Bitcoin ‘Maximalist’ Saylor Makes Crypto His Only Job

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Bruce V. Roberts, CEO of Carofin , arranges direct private investments in growth companies by family offices and high net worth individuals. For over 100 years there has been debate among historians, and a few eccentric mathematicians, over the origin of the quote, “There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” If you’re English, you could go with the 1st Earl of Balfour in 1892 or Benjamin Disraeli, a leading politician at that time. If you’re American, you’re probably thinking Mark Twain came up with it (he didn’t). Either way, it’s time to update this clever phrase—given today’s technologies. Spreadsheets, created on personal computers, now generate most of the financial reports and other more challenging computations used worldwide, including the statistics our forebears were so suspicious of. Complex analysis doesn’t necessarily lead to better conclusions. Monster spreadsheets, … [Read more...] about Lies, Cursed Lies, And Spreadsheets: A History Of Financial Calculations

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Luxury Italian bedding and lifestyle brand SFERRA is opening a 2,600-square-foot store, its first physical store, in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, in a three level Italiante-style townhouse. While the brand is long on history – it was founded in 1853 – it’s store is designed to be an experiential retail center. With three-floors to explore, the Townhouse gathers all of SFERRA’s product lines under the same roof. That includes bedding, bath, down, robe, and loungewear; tabletop; rugs; decorative accessories, and gift collections. The latter features one-of-a-kind items sold exclusively at the Flatiron District Townhouse. The store showcases SFERRA’s collections in an elevated space that echos a comfortable New York City home. Displays of SFERRA products from the early days, and spanning 130 years are showcased throughout the Townhouse alongside recently launched items. The merchandise will allow guests and designers … [Read more...] about SFERRA Is Unveiling Its First Physical Store, In An Italiante-Style Townhouse In New York City

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin By Satta Sarmah Hightower Identity theft can upend someone’s life, both financially and emotionally. It’s a reality facing customers daily. Someone becomes a victim of identity theft every four seconds , reports the National Council on Identity Theft Protection. With increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats on the rise, companies have a responsibility to protect their consumers—and a big opportunity to deepen trust and loyalty if they get it right. To help businesses navigate this, we talked to Erik Nienaber, CTO and head of product at Iris Powered by Generali , a leading provider of identity and personal cyber protection solutions for businesses to offer to their customers. Below, he shares five tips to help companies bolster identity protection efforts and ultimately enrich the customer experience, build trust and boost business outcomes. 1. Assess Your Plan What’s your company’s approach to … [Read more...] about This Cybersecurity CTO Shares 5 Tips To Better Protect Your Customers

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin One major consideration for women, specifically women who want a family, is how motherhood will impact their careers. And one question these women often ask themselves is whether it makes sense to delay motherhood in order to realize their full potential. Motherhood penalizes professional women in several ways. Not only does it negatively affect their income and leadership status, it also influences their ability to get promoted and hired. They are often overlooked when it comes to career-advancing opportunities. A recent survey of 1,000 U.S. women who chose to delay motherhood after the age of 35 by WIN , a leading family-building benefits provider, revealed motivating factors, challenges, and benefits to women’s decisions and how fertility benefits factor into the journey. According to the survey, relationships, lifestyle, and finances were major considerations that impacted women’s decisions. By waiting to … [Read more...] about Does It Make Sense To Delay Motherhood For Your Career?

With thousands of construction workers and contractors needing long-term housing, the world’s largest hotel franchisor is launching a new brand for the booming boots-and-hardhat market. G eoff Ballotti is staring at a map on his office wall and likes what he sees. Nearly two dozen dots sprinkled across the United States represent future semiconductor factories. Outside of the microchip sector, few executives would seek out such a stodgy map from the Semiconductor Industry Association, let alone hang it on a wall. But for the CEO of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (2022 revenue: $1.56 billion), each dot on that map represents a giant, flashing-light opportunity. Ballotti quickly rattles off examples of locations where new chip factories are slated to appear. Intel is building two plants in Chandler, Arizona, at around $30 billion a pop. In Texas, plants have been announced by Texas Instruments in Sherman ($30 billion) and by Samsung in Taylor ($25 billion). In Indiana, they are … [Read more...] about Wyndham Hotels Grabs A Windfall From America’s Infrastructure Agenda

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Here are two words you wouldn’t expect to see in the same sentence: mobility and Big Mac. Yet UK startup Helixx has introduced a way to quickly assemble a slate of low-cost electric commercial vehicles based on the method McDonalds, like many other fast food franchises, uses to build its burgers. Initially on Helixx’s fast-fleet menu are the CARGO, a delivery van, TRUCK caters to the construction business, the open-bodied TUK and close-bodied RIDE are aimed at ride-share and taxi fleets. But they won’t be built in expansive central assembly plants. Helixx’s secret sauce is its concept of factories in a box it called Helixx Mobility Hubs. Think of each hub as a fast-food restaurant that both assembles and markets its products. Similar to a franchise arrangement, Helixx sells licenses to its technology and it provides everything the license holder needs to build and operate a factory, then market the vehicles on a … [Read more...] about Helixx Introduces Mc-Mobility Small EV Manufacturing Concept

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The leadership development industry—now valued at a staggering $67 billion and slated to grow to nearly $180 billion by 2032—must correct a glaring, unmistakable, and long-standing branding issue. There is no such thing as a "soft skill." Long mislabeled as "soft," these skills are, in reality, the bedrock of effective leadership. It's high time we abandon the outdated and derogatory term "soft skills" and embrace their true essence: professional skills . Dispelling the Myth: Soft Skills Are Not Soft As a long-recovering Chief Learning Officer (CLO), I continue to feel that interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence remain mislabeled as "soft skills." However, this designation fails to reflect the true significance of these skills accurately and upholds the fallacious idea that they are less important than hard skills. Professional skills are more important than ever in today's business world, which is … [Read more...] about It’s About Time We Abandoned The Term’ Soft Skills’

Though they get little respect from the industry’s old guard, technologist Martin Roscheisen’s lab-grown diamonds will soon flood the $85 billion fine jewelry market. They could also play a critical role in providing advanced chips for things like electric vehicles and quantum computing. I nside his rehabbed warehouse in South San Francisco with its line of glowing plasma reactors the size of minivans, Martin Roscheisen, CEO and cofounder of Diamond Foundry, unveils a 4-inch single-crystal diamond wafer. He says it was cut from a palm-size 423-carat rough stone, the biggest man-made diamond ever, large enough to fashion a set of crown jewels. But Roscheisen, 52, presents it as a preview of the age of quantum computing. “Every chip in the future will use diamond wafers,” he says. Be it for phones, laptops or cars, diamond will enable ever smaller high-energy electronics. Because the path to making diamond semiconductors passes through an expertise in forging gem-quality … [Read more...] about Diamond Disruptor: Meet The Nerdy King Of Bargain Bling

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin It was fitting that Adobe ADBE chose Las Vegas this past week to announce Firefly, its entry in the red-hot generative artificial-intelligence race. As one corporate consultant working the exhibition hall put it, such generative AI functionality is now “table stakes” for every big tech firm, a minimum (if hefty) bet that is quickly becoming a must-have for both customers and investors. Firefly is very much in beta still, as Adobe executives repeatedly emphasized. Would-be users must sign up online, and will be given access over the coming weeks to tools that make it easy to swap in image backgrounds, products, props, colors, marketing text and more, then quickly create and publish multiple variants for other platforms. Firefly’s launch represents another big, if still preliminary step, putting Adobe products alongside high-profile offerings such as ChatGPT, Midjourney , and Stable Diffusion from companies such as … [Read more...] about As Adobe Shows Its Generative AI Hand, Hollywood Grapples With Changing World