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☆ The cofounder of Allbirds has some advice for startups looking to IPO: make money ahead of going public
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Allbirds was one of the last startups to go public in 2021's IPO biltz. "You need to be a great company, you need to be profitable," says Allbirds cofounder Tim Brown. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Going public before turning profitable is a thing of the past, according to Allbirds cofounder and chief innovation officer Tim Brown. "You need to be a great company, you need to be profitable," he told Business Insider.

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☆ SEC alleges SolarWinds and key executive misled investors about cybersecurity prior to 'massive' cyberattack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"We allege that, for years, SolarWinds and Brown ignored repeated red flags about SolarWinds' cyber risks, which were well known throughout the company," SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal said in a press release. SolarWinds went public in 2018, and made only "generic" disclosures about cybersecurity risk in both its prospectus and in continued filings, the complaint said. However, the SEC alleged that SolarWinds and Brown knew that the company's cybersecurity practices were weak, pointing to an internal presentation from Brown that was made the same month SolarWinds went public. It appears to be one of the first times the SEC has alleged a company misled and defrauded investors over cybersecurity risks. In reality, Brown knew that the company was not following those best practices, the SEC alleged.

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U.S. regulators on Monday sued SolarWinds, a Texas-based technology company whose software was breached in a massive 2020 Russian cyberespionage campaign, for fraud for failing to disclose security deficiencies ahead of the stunning hack. Detected in December 2020, the SolarWinds hack penetrated U.S. government agencies including the Justice and Homeland Security departments, and more than 100 private companies and think tanks. Koch added that “we look forward to defending his reputation and correcting the inaccuracies in the SEC’s complaint." Brown's current title at SolarWinds is chief information security officer. Capitalizing on the supply-chain hack, the Russian cyber operators then stealthily penetrated select targets including about a dozen U.S. government agencies and prominent software and telecommunications providers.

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Notre Dame needed one stop to beat then-No. 6 Ohio State for the first time since 1936, and yet it couldn't finish the job. We've got to finish that game.”Chalk it up as yet another learning experience for the second-year Irish coach and his players. Political Cartoons View All 1176 ImagesA year ago, Freeman lost his first two games, at Ohio State, his alma mater, followed by an inexplicable home loss to Marshall. Notre Dame also wound up as one of three teams Stanford beat.

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☆ A co-founder of Allbirds admits some of their products 'haven't quite met the mark'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Allbirds has faltered after soaring in popularity with Silicon Valley tech bros.Co-founders Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger admit the company's missteps in appealing to consumers, WSJ reports. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. "As we've tried to expand and grow the brand, we created products that haven't quite met the mark," Brown said in an interview with The Journal. In the wake of the report, Allbirds stock plummeted 47%"It's a great product," he said during the call. Up until May, Brown and Zwillinger operated the company as co-CEOs similarly to the model of fellow direct-to-consumer brand Warby Parker.

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☆ NFL Hall of Famer Tim Brown talks entrepreneurship, the Raiders and Patrick Mahomes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailNFL Hall of Famer Tim Brown talks entrepreneurship, the Raiders and Patrick MahomesNFL Hall of Famer Tim Brown joins 'Halftime Report' to talk going from professional football to entrepreneurship, his company 81 Logistics and being a minority business owner.

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☆ Indiana industrial fire nearly extinguished but smoke still poses danger
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 12 (Reuters) - A raging industrial fire in eastern Indiana is expected to be almost entirely extinguished by Thursday evening or Friday morning, officials said, after days of thick smoke shut down schools and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. Firefighters have successfully prevented the flames from spreading beyond the property, and about 90% of the fire is out. But the smoke contains particulate matter, which can cause respiratory and other health problems. Officials again warned residents who smell or see smoke to shelter in place, keeping windows and doors shut and turning off their heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. "I'm exaggerating, of course, but don't discount the seriousness of the smoke."

☆ The Phillies Hang On to the Phairy Tale for One—Hopefully Two—More Games
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Realmuto and the Philadelphia Phillies. Happily or sadly is still to be determined, but it doesn’t look good for them. There’s another game Saturday night in Houston, maybe another the next night, and then Realmuto can lie down and begin to count the places that hurt, that should hurt, that will hurt given time. Last seen, the Phillies catcher was slowing up between first and second bases at Citizens Bank Park, holding his head, the first time he had admitted to any pain in weeks. At that, he had perhaps more accurately held his heart.

☆ Four Astros Pitchers Combine for First World Series No-Hitter Since 1956
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PHILADELPHIA—Right-hander Cristian Javier and three Houston Astros relievers on Wednesday night combined to throw the second no-hitter in World Series history, 66 years after Don Larsen’s perfect game for the New York Yankees. In Game 4 against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, Javier, a 25-year-old native of the Dominican Republic making his first World Series start, allowed two baserunners across six innings, both on walks. At 97 pitches and with still three innings to navigate, Javier gave way to the Astros’ bullpen, a decision made by Astros manager Dusty Baker.

☆ If Jose Altuve’s Untimely Slump Is Over, It’s Bad News for the Phillies
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HOUSTON—At the end, he hoped, of a slump that had spread across much of October, the absolute worst time of year for soft contact and hard luck, Jose Altuve packed for Philadelphia on Saturday night the new owner of three hits in a single baseball game. He wore a black T-shirt with a picture of a bear on it. The bear wore aviator sunglasses and a button-down shirt and looked quite solemn, in contrast to the man wearing him. That’s the best part about Altuve, his teammates swear, that being his unusual ability to believe in tomorrow. That is, if today is no longer available.

☆ The Pitching Secret That Helped the Astros Become World Series Regulars
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HOUSTON—On a quiet recent afternoon in the Bronx, an important baseball game just hours away, Houston Astros right-hander Jose Urquidy was in the bullpen, taming a curveball that has a tendency to go its own way. One after another, the pitch wasn’t quite right, this time too short, this time too loopy, this time unfamiliar off his fingers. The perfect one was in there somewhere, he knew, because he had thrown enough of those, too. Framber Valdez, a left-hander for the Astros, watched from nearby. Finally he said, “Jose.”

☆ The Astros Sweep the Yankees to Win the American League Pennant
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Alex Bregman knocked in the go-ahead run during the seventh inning of Game 4 of the ALCS. The end for the New York Yankees came on a long and often quiet Sunday night in the Bronx, a late and rare lead come and gone, their season with it. They were swept from the best-of-seven American League Championship Series by the Houston Astros, who are unbeaten across seven postseason games and open the World Series on Thursday night in Houston against the Philadelphia Phillies.

☆ The Parallel Journeys of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado Converge in the NLCS
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SAN DIEGO—If there is a way for Bryce Harper and Manny Machado to make sense of their lives in baseball, of their uncommon capacity to put a bat on a ball, of surviving the worst of it to compete for a title, then it probably comes from looking across the way at each other. Each furnishes the context for the other.

☆ The Yankees Survive to Play the Astros in the American League Championship Series
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Baseball’s new postseason format has been rough on some of the regular season’s winningest teams. But the game’s biggest brand, the New York Yankees, on Tuesday survived their American League Division Series by beating the Cleveland Guardians 5-1 at Yankee Stadium. In only their fifth game in 13 days, an unusually airy schedule that reflected Major League Baseball’s expanded playoff format and two rainouts, the Yankees got an early three-run home run from Giancarlo Stanton, another home run from Aaron Judge and five innings from starting pitcher Nestor Cortes.

☆ After a Scoreless Six-Hour Marathon, the Astros Dispatch the Underdog Mariners
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SEATTLE—Nearly 48,000 playoff-starved fans crammed into T-Mobile Park on Saturday for the Seattle Mariners’ first home postseason game in three days short of 21 years. After more than six hours, 18 combined pitchers held the game exactly where it had begun, at 0-0. The Houston Astros—two games to none leaders in the best-of-five series—were not yet moving on, and the Mariners were stubbornly resisting elimination. Then, after a postseason-record 17 scoreless innings, Astros rookie Jeremy Pena homered into the left-center field bleachers in the 18th inning at the ballpark off Edgar Martinez Drive, giving the Astros a 1-0 victory over the Mariners and sending them into the American League Championship Series for the sixth consecutive season.

☆ The Phillies Turned It Around in June—and Could Knock Out the Braves in October
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Phillies celebrate winning Game 1 of the NLDS against the Braves. The Philadelphia Phillies on Friday afternoon will host a playoff game for the first time since 2011, the day Ryan Howard was helped from the field at Citizens Bank Park, the sort of imagery that tends to stick with a franchise. At the conclusion of that National League Division Series, at what would become the end of a glorious half-decade for the franchise, Howard had torn his Achilles tendon.

☆ The Astros Deliver a Dramatic Reminder of Their Dominance
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Houston Astros on Tuesday night seemed drawn to the sound of it, gushing from their dugout in twos and threes and then all of them, by the time Yordan Alvarez’s walk-off home run landed in the second deck of Minute Maid Park’s right field. For the second time in postseason history, a player had homered with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning to win a game, the first being Kirk Gibson for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1988 World Series. For the first time, Alvarez’s home run—with two runners on base—had overcome a deficit of more than one run.

☆ The Padres Head Up I-5 to Face Their Dragon: The Dodgers
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LOS ANGELES—The San Diego Padres, an hour or so from advancing to a National League division series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, stood by as six umpires ascended the pitcher’s mound Sunday night in Queens. The Padres were ahead and the opposing manager, a respected leader who had already made a show of collecting baseballs he may or may not have been suspicious of, apparently had decided that if the Padres were winning they must be cheating. Or maybe it was the way they were winning.

☆ Aaron Judge Hits 61st Home Run to Tie Roger Maris’s AL Record
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge on Wednesday night hit his 61st home run of the season, tying the American League and Yankees records, both held by Roger Maris since 1961. Judge smacked a seventh-inning pitch off of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Tim Mayza in Toronto over the left-field fence to become the second Yankee to surpass 60 home runs in a season. The other was Maris. Babe Ruth hit a career-best 60 home runs (in a 155-game season) in 1927. Wednesday was the Yankees’ 155th game.

☆ Harry Marino Survived the Minor Leagues. Now He Wants to Fix Them.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Harry Marino, the attorney and former minor-league baseball player whose work spearheaded the unionization of minor leaguers this month, sought to put a century’s worth of hardball labor and heartfelt, if imperfect, dreams into perspective. The romance of young men chasing fly balls and life’s footholds in small, charming ballparks is real, he said. So are the trials.

☆ Albert Pujols Hits His 700th Career Home Run
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Tim Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LOS ANGELES – Albert Pujols hit the 700th home run of his career Friday night, becoming the fourth player in major league history—and the first from the Dominican Republic—to reach that mark, joining Barry Bonds, Henry Aaron and Babe Ruth. In the fourth inning, with many at Dodger Stadium standing, a sea of blue dotted with St. Louis Cardinals red, Pujols homered into the left field bleachers against Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Phil Bickford. He spread his arms wide as he rounded first base, as the fans stood and cheered the accomplishment as though he were one of their own. Pujols played five months for the Dodgers last season.

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