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☆ Blackface, booze, and blurred lines at the $2 billion tech firm Rokt
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Jack Newsham | Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

A cropped version of an image shared with Rokt employees at the 2020 meeting. Buchanan told Insider. "We think it's important that we stand up and fight it," he told Insider when asked about that message. In an email, Viles told Insider that he hasn't had any day-to-day involvement with Rokt since 2020, when he did some contract work. Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesOne employee told Insider they were encouraged to post the photos and proclaim 2023 to be Rokt's "best year yet."

☆ PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan on Players Championship and Netflix effect from "Full Swing” doc
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | 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 EmailPGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan on Players Championship and Netflix effect from "Full Swing” docJay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner, joins CNBC's "Squawk Box" to discuss the upcoming Players Championship and the effect from Netflix's "Full Swing" series.

☆ Bridgewater's new executive team is already making big changes. But was it all part of Ray Dalio's master plan?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

On tap, we've got stories on the top VCs in Texas, more headaches for Blackstone's BREIT, and why boomers stink. Maybe it's just the fear of facing your own mortality and realizing that life, in fact, will go on without you. As Rebecca Ungarino reports, the world's largest hedge fund is making a slew of new changes less than six months after billionaire founder Ray Dalio stepped aside. Bridgewater, which was founded in 1975 from Dalio's two-bedroom apartment, is arguably just as well known for its culture as its size. Edited by Jeffrey Cane (tweet @jeffrey_cane) in New York and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) and Nathan Rennolds (tweet @ncrennolds) in London.

☆ Starboard Value wants Salesforce to hit over 30% profit margins, closer to Oracle and Microsoft. Salesforce is working on it, leaked draft of a planning document shows.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Ellen Thomas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Activist investor Starboard Values wants Salesforce to grow its adjusted operating margins above 30%. In September, Salesforce announced a goal of 25% adjusted operating margins by fiscal 2026, up from a target of 20% for fiscal 2023. Starboard found Salesforce's mix of operating margins and revenue growth averaged much lower than its peers, including Microsoft and Oracle. Starboard showed Oracle at a 10.7% increase in revenue with adjusted operating margins of 43.3% for its current fiscal year. It showed Microsoft's at a 10.9% increase in revenue and 46.6% increase in operating margins, Starboard said.

☆ Former Google staffer says she's gone from viewing the company culture as 'paradise' to 'quite grim'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ex-Googler Claire Stapleton said her perspective on Google's culture has shifted dramatically over the years. Stapleton said she was once a "cheerleader" for Google, but now she sees its culture as "quite grim." In 2018, Stapleton, organized a protest, walking off the job along with about 20,000 Google workers in response to the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations. Now nearly four years later, Stapleton says she sees Google's culture as "quite grim," especially since the company laid off about 12,000 employees in February. Stapleton is one of several former Google workers to speak out against the company in recent months.

☆ Not so quiet on the BAFTA front as anti-war remake tops the billing
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Albrecht Schuch, Edward Berger, and Malte Grunert arrive at the world premiere of "All Quiet on the Western Front" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File PhotoLONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A German remake of anti-war classic "All Quiet on the Western Front" leads the contenders at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, the country's highest accolade for the industry. "Banshees", about two feuding friends on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and "Everything Everywhere" each have received 10 nominations. Bill Nighy ("Living"), Paul Mescal (Aftersun") and Daryl McCormack ("Good Luck to You, Leo Grande") complete the leading actor nominees list. BAFTA Chief Executive Jane Millichip said while Grozev would not attend the ceremony, the film's nominated producers would.

☆ Netflix exec reveals sports ambitions and what's next for live sports as golf series 'Full Swing' debuts
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Formula 1 racing saw a boost in TV viewership and fandom since Netflix began streaming docuseries "Drive to Survive." Amid a boom in sports docs, the streamer has tennis series "Break Point" and golf-centered "Full Swing." Netflix unscripted TV head Brandon Riegg spoke to Insider about the streamer's ambitions in live sports. "I wouldn't be surprised," Netflix VP of unscripted and docuseries Brandon Riegg told Insider ahead of the "Break Point" premiere. Also in the works are series on the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and the Six Nations rugby tournament.

☆ Perfectionism can be your biggest enemy—but it’s simple to fix, says mental health author
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Mental health author Morra Aarons-Mele disagrees. Too many people think that "if we don't give 100%, if we're not perfect, it's a judgment on us," she adds. Unlearning the most painful parts of your perfectionist tendencies can start today, Aarons-Mele says. Learn how to recognize the signsThere's a reason you've been clinging onto perfectionist tendencies this long, Aarons-Mele says: They probably seem to work for you. Longer term, perfectionism usually leads people down one of two paths, neither of which are good for you, Aarons-Mele says.

No one thought LeBron James would overtake Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the N.B.A.’s career scoring leader when he came to the league as an 18-year-old. The line for LeBron James is just past the 38,387 points scored by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Table showing the scoring totals for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lebron James, broken down by type of shot. Career points by age for top 250 scorers Line chart showing career points for the top 250 scorers in N.B.A. The line for LeBron James is just past the 38,387 points scored by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

☆ Laid-off Google employees are turning to a Discord server with nearly 18,000 members for emotional support and financial advice
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Laid-off Google employees have flocked to Discord to vent and seek financial advice. Almost 18,000 people are currently on the Discord server called "Google Post-Layoffs." Laid-off engineers told Insider Discord gave them a way to communicate with their ex-colleagues. "Google Post-Layoffs" has more than 17,800 members, comprised of laid-off Google staff, current employees, former workers who left prior to the job cuts, recruiters, and journalists. On top of the Discord server, employees have created a Google doc spreadsheet where they track who was laid off and which departments were affected the most, ex-staff told Insider.

☆ One of Jeff Bezos' secrets to success: The boss should always talk last in meetings
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you ever find yourself taking a meeting with Jeff Bezos, don't expect the billionaire Amazon founder to speak first. There's a reason Bezos thinks managers should always speak last in business meetings, for example. "I hold a lot of meetings, and I would talk first in a meeting, and [Bezos] goes, 'No, no, no. Similarly, Bezos recommends keeping the meetings themselves as short as possible once the reading period is over, Sanchez said: "Keep meetings under an hour, if you can." Bezos' meeting method is favored by other tech executives, too.

☆ How the boom in sports documentaries on streaming is opening up a new path for athletes as content creators
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Elaine Low | Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A boom in sports documentaries has offered athletes more ways to be on screen and build their brands. Players and their agents are looking for hits like Netflix Formula 1 doc series "Drive to Survive." Being featured in a sports doc can dramatically raise an athlete's profile, giving them more fans and more branding power. Netflix's "Drive to Survive" was credited with doing wonders for F1 fandom, particularly stateside, where American interest has historically been scarce. "These people can go on the air and broadcast their own content and they can capture and keep their own content," said Octagon VP of content and development Jason Weichelt.

☆ Women Have Been Misled About Menopause
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Susan Dominus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Until she stumbled on Alloy, she’d been relying on antibacterial creams to soothe the pain she felt. The space was clearly a no-judgment zone, a place where women could talk about how they personally felt about the risks and benefits of taking hormones. “My new OB-GYN and my cancer doc won’t put me on hormones,” the woman said. Faubion told me that in certain circumstances, higher-risk women who are fully informed of the risks but suffer terrible symptoms might reasonably make the decision to opt for hormones. Only once I took the hormones did I appreciate that my regular 2 a.m. wakings, too, were most likely a symptom of perimenopause.

☆ OPEC+ committee recommends no change in oil output policy at virtual meeting
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Ruxandra Iordache | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A technical committee of the influential OPEC+ oil producers' coalition has made no recommendation to change the group's existing production policy in its latest meeting, according to three delegates. The OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, which tracks the alliance's compliance with its output quota, convened digitally on Wednesday. The second OPEC+ technical group, the Joint Technical Committee that studies market fundamentals, canceled a virtual meeting originally scheduled for Jan. 31, according to a delegate. Neither committee can outright decide OPEC+ production policy, but the JMMC can recommend plans for the review of coalition ministers. Under that provision, the group would nominally lower their production output quotas by 2 million barrels per day.

☆ I was working toward a promotion at Amazon when my manager started emailing me about needing coaching. Now I'm worried about losing my job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Shana Lebowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

An Amazon marketing manager was told they were a high-value contributor. I started my promotion doc [a document explaining why an Amazon employee is ready for a promotion]. One thing that's in the ethos at Amazon is you're supposed to be allowed to make mistakes. So if it's something as simple as, "Hey, let's all try this new thing in Asana," and then the next day you're told you're horrible at Asana and that you're being put on a coaching action, it just seemed un-Amazonian. 'I started getting strange communication from my manager'By the end of December, I started getting strange communication from my manager.

☆ I asked ChatGPT how to negotiate a raise. Career coaches said I'd probably get one by following the AI chatbot's steps and script.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I put ChatGPT to the test for a situation that many workers find stressful: asking for a raise. But can ChatGPT help you get a raise? I started simple: I told ChatGPT "ask my boss for a raise" to see what response that would yield. ChatGPT then gave me a very similar list of preparation steps but also tacked on a brief script template. Career coaches Esther Leonard and Mandi Woodruff-Santos told me ChatGPT's answers didn't seem obviously AI-generated and that a person could probably get a raise if they followed those steps and the script template.

☆ Diaries, ex-husbands, and mowing the lawn in high-heel boots: Inside the making of Netflix's Pamela Anderson documentary, 'Pamela, a Love Story'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Pamela Anderson. The legal pads and crates of diaries found near the VHS tapes would become the foundation for White's Pamela Anderson documentary. Pamela Anderson in "Pamela, a Love Story." Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. "The Pamela Anderson I know is very different from the Pamela Anderson in the show," White said.

☆ I'm a CEO who tried 'monk mode' after seeing it on TikTok. My productivity shot up, and so did the quality of my work.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Josh Wood, the CEO of Bloc, tried the 'monk-mode' productivity hack popular on TikTok. Monk mode is where you commit yourself to completing a goal without any distractionsIn monk mode, you take it upon yourself to adopt the isolation and self-discipline practices of monks. For me, monk mode is better because I can go into this "mode" for a lot longer and not be distracted. Monk mode is useful for achieving a state of heightened productivityI would say my productivity in monk mode is five times better than when I'm working normally. But the most important aspect of monk mode for me is that I don't have to work insane 80-hour weeks anymore.

☆ Steph Curry says he'd accept 'a nice role' in 'Black Panther 3' if director Ryan Coogler offered it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Alison Brower | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Several of Curry's Davidson teammates are interviewed in the documentary, and some were at the premiere. "St. Francis of Assisi — and I'll paraphrase — said 'Preach without using words,'" McKillop told the crowd of Curry. "We all start from somewhere and we learn things along the way," Curry told the audience. "I can always get better," Curry told the Sundance crowd. Its streaming premiere date on Apple TV+ has not been announced.

☆ Google staff sent each other memes about layoffs to console each other and created spreadsheets to track firings, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google employees created spreadsheets to keep track of who was laid off, CNBC reported. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, told staff in a memo he took "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here." Following the announcement, Google employees demanded answers from executives about how the layoffs were determined, CNBC reported. It included the caption: "The sad thing is, I actually thought you were different," next to Google's logo, CNBC reported. Google staff have submitted questions on the company's Q&A system called Dory, CNBC reported.

☆ Google employees scramble for answers after layoffs hit long-tenured and recently promoted employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google employees are scrambling for answers from leadership and from colleagues as the company undergoes a massive layoff. On Friday, Alphabet -owned Google announced it was cutting 12,000 employees, roughly 6% of the full-time workforce. Some of the laid-off employees had been long-tenured or recently promoted, raising questions about the criteria used to decide whose jobs were cut. The company provided an FAQ for the layoffs, which CNBC has seen, but employees have complained that it doesn’t give much detail on many answers. The scramble highlights the challenges Google could face in maintaining a supportive and productive company culture for its restive workforce of more than 160,000 full-time employees.

☆ Netflix reality TV head on how doc series 'Break Point' can become a 'Drive to Survive' for pro tennis — and whether the streamer's sports doc success will lead it into live sports
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Formula 1 racing saw a boost in TV viewership and fandom since Netflix began streaming docuseries "Drive to Survive." Amid a boom in sports docs, the streamer is looking for another hit in tennis series "Break Point." Netflix unscripted TV head Brandon Riegg spoke to Insider about the streamer's ambitions in live sports. Netflix execs and tennis fans are hoping that "Break Point," the streamer's new docuseries centered on the 2022 Grand Slam season, can be the racket sport's "Drive to Survive." "I wouldn't be surprised," Netflix VP of unscripted and docuseries Brandon Riegg told Insider the day before "Break Point" premiered.

☆ Rudy Giuliani says Trump once advised him to take top-secret files home
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rudy Giuliani says Trump once told him to take top-secret documents home. Giuliani said the incident occurred just after Trump became president, when he was working at Mar-a-Lago. Giuliani said he was at Mar-a-Lago, working on "vetting" some "very rich" people — specifically, going through their tax returns for Trump. The incident occurred right after Trump became president, Giuliani said. During its raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago property on August 8, the FBI seized batches of classified documents, including some marked "top secret."

☆ Building self-discipline by age 27 is crucial, says psychiatrist from the Netflix doc 'Stutz': 3 ways to do it
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Leading a fulfilling life requires discipline, Stutz said on a recent episode of "Armchair Expert," hosted by Dax Shepard and Monica Padman. Structural disciplineThe act of taking those reactive habits and integrating them into your "baseline" routine is what Stutz called structural discipline. Structural discipline relies more on conscious decision-making, while reactive discipline relies on subconscious behavior. In her book, "Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick," Wood frames it like this: You have to make the decision to ask your boss for a promotion. In other words, habits — good and bad — are formed through routines over time, which is why Stutz says you would be wise to adopt daily routines that promote good habits.

☆ Netflix's Harry and Megan doc is a hit in the US — mostly with women over 50
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Netflix's "Harry and Meghan" is a hit in the US, based on Nielsen numbers. During the week that the second half of the series dropped, half its viewers were 50 or over. Half of the viewers in that week-long period were 50 or over, and a whopping 73% of viewers were women, according to Nielsen. "The Crown," Netflix's dramatized Royals series, also leans older, but even moreso than "Harry and Meghan." When its fifth season debuted in November, Nielsen said that 60% of its viewers were over the age of 50.

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