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☆ I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor. Here's the 'unpopular' parenting rule I always used on my kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Esther Wojcicki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Here's a wake-up call for American parents: We are doing too much for our kids. This is the origin of "helicopter parenting," in which we constantly remove obstacles so that our kids don't have to deal with challenges. 1 was: Don't do anything for your kids that they can do for themselves. All three grew up to be highly successful: Susan is the CEO of YouTube, Janet is a doctor, and Anne is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. It was the learning and the hard work that I wanted to reward, not getting it right the first time.

☆ The Elon Musk-Twitter saga could finally be coming to end
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk’s Twitter account is displayed on the screen of an iPhone on April 26, 2022 in Paris, France. The end of the line for Elon and TwitterWhat a long strange trip it's been. That might be the best way to sum up the Elon Musk-Twitter saga that has played out over the past six-plus months. It finally appears an end is in sight*, or at least the closing of a transaction. The main issue remains how Musk will come up with the $44 billion needed to actually buy Twitter.

☆ Only 5 billionaires including the founders of Zynga, FTX and 23andme have signed up to The Giving Pledge this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Only five have signed up for The Giving Pledge in 2022, down from 14 last year. The Giving Pledge was founded by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010 when dozens of America's wealthiest people pledged to donate the bulk of their fortune to help solve problems in society. Jeff Bezos, ranked by Forbes as the world's second-richest person worth $171 billion, is noticeably missing from The Giving Pledge. She said in her pledge letter that giving money away has "richly rewarded" her. The Giving Pledge did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Following the fall of Roe v. Wade, telemedicine startup Hey Jane just raised $6.1 million to increase access to abortion pills
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Abortion telemedicine startup Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in funding. Reproductive health startups are receiving more attention from VCs following the fall of Roe v. Wade. The fall of Roe v. Wade earlier this year has caused some states to restrict access to abortions and has thrown reproductive rights into the spotlight. Hey Jane raised $6.1 million in Series A funding from female-led Ulu Ventures, The Helm, Amboy Street, Portfolia, and G9. Moving forward, a key area of focus for Hey Jane will be increasing awareness of medication abortion to the general public, as well as access.

☆ Here are Thursday's biggest analyst calls: Amazon, Eli Lilly, Bed Bath & Beyond, Nike, Exxon & more
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: UBS upgrades Eli Lilly to buy from neutral UBS says it's bullish on the company's weight loss drug and sees upside potential. Morgan Stanley reiterates Amazon as overweight Morgan Stanley says the company's fulfillment network is the next great catalyst for Amazon shares. "The cybersecurity industry comprises what we see as five main pillars: identity, endpoint security, data security, network security, and cloud security. Morgan Stanley reiterates Microsoft as overweight Morgan Stanley says it sees an attractive risk/reward after meeting with company management. Morgan Stanley reiterates Meta as overweight Morgan Stanley says that reports of Meta cutting costs could prove to be an earnings tailwind.

☆ I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor—here’s the parenting style I never used on my kids
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Esther Wojcicki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Based on my experience and research, I believe "helicopter parenting" is the most toxic. Helicopter parenting — sometimes called "snowplow parenting" — is when you constantly remove obstacles so that your kids don't have to deal with challenges and frustrations. My friend Maye Musk, a successful model and the mother of Elon Musk, agrees on the harmful effects of helicopter parenting. That's exactly what kids need today — to not be controlled or overprotected, but allowed to take responsibility for their own lives. Most kids don't know how to make anything for themselves.

☆ Cerebral is trying out an unusual clinical trial for a depression drug that has other companies wary. Here’s why.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-14 | by ( Megan Hernbroth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The mental-health startup Cerebral partnered with Alto Neuroscience for a clinical trial. The mental-health startup Cerebral is teaming up with Alto Neuroscience on an upcoming home-based clinical trial for the biopharmaceutical company Alto's depression-drug candidate, according to federal records. The idea behind the partnership is that Cerebral is a mental-health company treating patients with depression, the condition for which Alto is developing treatments. Cerebral Chief Medical Officer David Mou told TechCrunch in December that the startup provided patients for the trial "within an hour." How Alto is running the trialThe trial with Cerebral does not include a control group, according to the filing.

☆ Профессор Гарварда заявил, что в 2017 году около Земли прошли инопланетные обломки
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Согласно новой книге профессора Гарвардского университета Ави Лоеба, в 2017 году ученые обнаружили первые признаки разумной жизни за пределами Земли. По словам Лоеба, это был первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли. «Чужой: первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли»По словам Лоеба, объект не был естественным явлением, а представлял собой кусок космического мусора, выброшенный другой галактикой. В обзоре Publishers Weekly книгу «Чужой: первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли» назвали «спорным манифестом». «Захватывающий и убедительный случай, что мы могли видеть признаки разумной жизни около Земли и что нам следует искать дальше», – написала она.

Persons: Ави Лоеба, Ави Лоеб, Лоеб, Томас Зурбухен, ПРОДОЛЖАЕТСЯОн, Энн Войжитки, Эрик Маскин Organizations: NASA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, . Publishers, Гарвардский университет, Управление научных миссий, ИСТОРИЯ, Гарвард Locations: –, Houghton Mifflin, Гавайях, Земля, Вашингтон

☆ Google's Sergey Brin Is Totally Obsessed With High-Adrenaline Exercise
▼ + stars: | 2014-08-19 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"When Larry and I started the company, we had to get some hard drives to, you know, store the entire Web," Brin told Wired of Google's early days. AdvertisementEven in the search engine's early days, Brin brought an element of fun and activity to the Googleplex. "They were much better than I expected for a bunch of engineers," he told Edwards. In 2008, he learned that he had a mutation on his LRRK2 gene, a defect that would substantially increase his risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Advertisement"If I felt it was guaranteed to cure Parkinson’s disease, a check for a billion dollars would be the easiest one I have written," Brin told Bloomberg.

Persons: Sergey Brin isn’t, Larry Page, Larry, Brin, Sergey, Doug Edwards, Edwards, couldn’t, Googlers, Greg Roberts, Roberts, Google George Salah, Jacob Silberberg, Page, Eugenia, Parkinson's, Anne Wojcicki, Wojcicki, Michael J Organizations: Khan Academy, Khan, University of Maryland, Stanford, Google, Circus Center, Flickr, 23AndMe, Fox Foundation, Parkinson's Research, Bloomberg Locations: San Jose, Moscow, Soviet Russia, rollerblades, Sunset, Queens, Brooklyn, New York City, San Francisco, New York

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