Pivoting

Today, X announced that it has tapped Lemon, Gabbard, and Rome to host three new series that will stream exclusively on the website. Per X, The Don Lemon Show will air three times a week, with each 30-minute-long episode exploring topics like “politics, culture, sports and entertainment” from Lemon’s “unique and honest” perspective. Over the course of multiple years, Rome is set to produce multiple shows as part of a content partnership with X. But Rome’s first project — which is set to premiere after this year’s Super…

Superhuman once had a waitlist of more than 450,000 people hoping to try its $30-per-month email app. Now it’s shifting focus toward companies that might subscribe in bulk.While the app remains available to individuals—still for $30 per month—Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra says most of the startup’s growth comes from teams now. This week, it’s leaning into enterprise use with a suite of new collaborative features, including team-wide read receipts, shared text snippets, typing indicators when coworkers are…

With crypto becoming a hell of a lot less appetizing over the last few months thanks to numerous crimes and scandals, game companies that were once so hungry for ballooning crypto profits have been creeping their chairs away from the dinner table, inch by squeaking inch.The Biggest Crypto Heists of 2022…So FarSega co-Chief Operating Officer Shuji Utsumi told Bloomberg in an interview that the company is no longer interested in making blockchain-based projects for its Sonic The Hedgehog and Yakuza franchises. Putting a…

XRP Rides the Korean Wave South Korean investors appear to be swarming towards Ripple (XRP), with trading volume for the altcoin rising across various exchanges, including leading platforms like Upbit, Bithumb, and Korbit. The XRP/KRW trading pair currently holds 14.76% of all trading volume on Bithumb, making Ripple the second largest traded cryptocurrency on the platform, just behind Bitcoin. Similar scenarios are unfolding on Korbit, where Ripple, too, holds the second spot in trading volume. With Ripple’s current…

Are you a seed-stage founder who’s building a unicorn? NFX Founding Partner James Currier would like to save you some time: Startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of defensibility. Network effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply, customers “cannot rip them out.” Data loops: Gather, process and act on real-time data. “This is really only talking about world-changing, big-ass businesses with a lot of impact that…

As we've discussed many times before, offshore wind represents an enormous opportunity for clean energy, but some of the best resources are out in deep water, where sinking a shaft straight into the sea bed becomes prohibitively expensive and difficult. Floating offshore platforms offer an alternative, but the engineering challenges here are enormous. A typical 14-megawatt offshore turbine, for example, might place a 500-ton nacelle on top of a 130-metre (427-feet) tower, spinning three 108-metre (354-feet) long carbon…

With the rise and proliferation of advanced, large language model chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, everyone and their mother seems to be talking about AI. Tech companies from Microsoft to Google to Amazon to Snapchat to LinkedIn are either rushing to create their own, comparable text-generating tech or incorporating ChatGPT into their products. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp is no exception. Mark Zuckerberg’s tech behemoth released its own research-focused, large language model last month.…

A French restaurant in West Wash Park has closed its doors, but its ownership plans to debut a new concept in the space this spring. Jared Leonard, owner of Au Feu Brasserie at 81 S. Pennsylvania St., told BusinessDen the restaurant’s fine-dining nature just wasn’t working. “The amount of time and food costs in fine dining, it’s just a format that’s kind of dying out,” Leonard said. “It’s hard to do in the current economy.” Leonard opened Au Feu in January 2021, after the restaurant had a short stint in RiNo’s Zeppelin…

Over the last year, Glen Powell has been entertaining moviegoing audiences by playing pilots. First he starred as Lieutenant Jake "Hangman" Seresin opposite Tom Cruise’s Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun: Maverick, then he appeared as real-life Korean War pilot Lieutenant Tom Hudner in Devotion, which co-starred Jonathan Majors as Ensign Jesse Brown. Following these outings in the sky, it’s been announced that Powell is pivoting back to the rom-com genre, which is delightful news on its own. Additionally though, his…

Every successful business or product implements a standard process, which helps move the idea from concept to reality. A core step to success is creating a plan and following the process, which is very familiar to those working in product design. A robust design process can help to deter pitfalls and figure out how to quickly work out any problems, as well as connect the consumer with the product from the early stages, a central element to a well-received product. Sergey KrasotinDesign Director & Co-Founder at…