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☆ Young workers say working 4 days a week would actually make them better employees
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementYoung professionals said they don't need 40 hours a week to get their work done. In fact, 81% of respondents said working one less day a week would improve their company's productivity. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. AdvertisementA police department in Colorado moved workers from 40 to 32 hours a week in July 2023 and reported "fantastic" initial results months later. One alternative: a four-and-a-half day week.

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☆ Mark Cuban: Here's the moment I knew I wouldn’t succeed in corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Cuban once pictured himself running a major corporation — until he started his first job out of college. The experience "sealed" something he probably already knew, Cuban told CNBC Make It via email: If he wanted to run a company, he'd likely have to build his own. "I was a lousy employee because I was a know-it-all," Cuban told Wired last year. But not every prospective entrepreneur is as successful as Cuban, who launched a software company called Microsolutions in 1983 and kept it afloat through some turbulent early years. Cuban's second business, Broadcast.com, was acquired by Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999.

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☆ Jon Stewart will return to host 'The Daily Show' after a yearlong search for Trevor Noah's replacement — but there's a catch
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewJon Stewart will return to "The Daily Show" after an extended search for a host to replace Trevor Noah. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Stewart will return in a limited capacity as host on Monday nights, running through the 2024 election. He took over from prior host Craig Kilborn in 1999, and stayed on the show until 2015.

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☆ 'Shark Tank' star Mark Cuban usually spends the first hour of his day reading emails in bed
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. "I try to do everything by email — so then I'm in bed for an hour chilling, doing my emails, responding to anything that's urgent." "I'm on my phone or my PC all day, every day," he said. The "Shark Tank" star is known for his intense work ethic, once advising people to "work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you." Cuban is leaving "Shark Tank" after season 16 concludes in 2025 after joining the show in its second season in 2011, so he can spend more time with his family.

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☆ Mark Cuban says becoming a billionaire is just about luck and anyone who says they can do it again is lying
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewTV personality and businessman Mark Cuban admitted that he couldn't become a billionaire again if he had to start over because it's essentially just "luck" and anyone who thinks they can is "lying." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. At one point Noah questioned him about how he became a billionaire to which Cuban responded frankly: "Anybody who's a billionaire who thinks they could just do it all over again is lying their ass off. "But the whole billionaire side of it, the hundreds of millions of dollars, that's just insane and that was luck," he said. Advertisement"But there's a whole lot of people who are really really smart, who do each of those things or one of them really well, and we don't know who they are," he added.

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☆ Spotify will use AI to replicate podcasters' voices and translate them to other languages
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek joins author and comedian Trevor Noah to discuss the future of storytelling at Spotify Beach in Cannes, France, on June 20, 2023. Spotify on Monday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered feature that can translate podcasts into different languages using the host's own voice. The technology can create "realistic synthetic voices" from just a few seconds of speech, OpenAI said in a release. Spotify said it will help make the podcast listening experience more authentic and natural by maintaining podcasters' "distinctive speech characteristics." Spotify said it plans to make the feature accessible for more creators and languages in the future.

Persons: Daniel Ek, Trevor Noah, OpenAI, Dax Shepard, Lex Fridman, Monica Padman, Steven Bartlett, Bill Simmons, Trevor Noah's Organizations: Spotify Beach, Spotify Locations: Cannes, France

☆ 13 Hollywood production companies making brand films that streamers like Netflix and Apple want to buy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

said Marc Gilbar, who runs the brand division at Imagine Entertainment. Some are also looking to brand films to offset some of the revenue they're losing in the dual Hollywood strikes. (Brand films are often unscripted and thus aren't governed by the Hollywood unions.) They also see brand work being a positive for below-the-line workers who are idled by the work stoppage. Led by EVP Kate Oppenheim, Tribeca Studios' projects have included "We Could be King" (ESPN2) for Dick's Sporting Goods and P&G's Queen Collective series (BET).

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☆ KFC is getting an unexpected boost from Trevor Noah's love of breakfast chicken
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

KFC's "eat fried chicken for breakfast" campaign with Trevor Noah seems to be boosting sales. The campaign, which was launched in South Africa, has lead to strong sales growth, as noted in Yum Brand's earnings call Wednesday. KFC same store sales rose 13%, adding a huge boost to Yum Brands' overall sales. Yum Brand's, which owns KFC, attributed strong sales in South Africa to a chicken campaign with comedian Trevor Noah during the company's earnings call on Wednesday. The brand recently launched chicken nuggets to expand the brand's off-the-bone offerings.

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