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"That has been a robust meme and difficult to disprove, but I don't think holds up to any scrutiny." https://bit.ly/4x0VDHk

Andres Fernandez was born and raised in Miami, and he's always been an out-of-the-box kid, he says. When he signed up for college, he didn't really know what he wanted to do. He was going to college because his mom was making him go, and he was studying business, which he finds to be cliché. After just one semester, he dropped out to be a full-time Pokémon card seller. Rather than getting a business degree to work a corporate job, he ended up building a real business that's his, he says. The company, MintlyCollects, made $7.8 million in sales in 2025 and became a family business. Read more about his business on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/eYiFvX8K (Credit: Andres Fernandez) #pokemon #careers #business

A majority of Americans hear themselves in Dolly Parton's "9-to-5." Sixty percent of Americans identify as working class, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of a January 2026 survey. That's up from 54% in 2024. And the label, historically applied to lower-earning workers, resonates across earnings levels. Middle-income families, who make between $51,900 to $155,600 depending on family size and location, identify especially with the term "working class." More surprisingly, half of high-income families, who earn more than $155,600, identify that way. That could be because the term itself is ambiguous: As the analysis notes, there's no one clear definition of working class. Read more about the Pew findings on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/g2JQPvH4 #salary #careers #workingclass

Apple is following Google Maps, after President Donald Trump ordered the federal government to change the name of a Great Lake. https://bit.ly/4zN46Rj

SB Energy's IPO filing reveals a deep financial entanglement with OpenAI, with up to $5.5 billion in stock warrants. https://bit.ly/4zROc89

While working as a bartender, Richard Boccato began experimenting with crystal-clear cocktail ice. When other bartenders started asking if they could buy it, that demand became the foundation for Hundredweight Ice. The company grew from fewer than 10 clients to hundreds through word of mouth, bringing in $2.5 million in 2024. Business Insider correspondent Kathleen Elkins explains how Boccato turned a bartending experiment into a multimillion-dollar business. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eQqmMpaD

Cameras are in smart toilets, AI glasses, vacuums, fridges, and now ... toothbrushes? Dyson's latest CameraJet gadget is aimed at lazy flossers. https://bit.ly/3SHVyu3

Get ready to hear Slack notifications if you work at Meta. The tech giant is switching over from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications, according to a memo its AI chief, Alexandr Wang, sent out this week. Meta is making the move because it says Slack is better for handling AI agents, the memo reads. "Slack is the strongest platform available today for agents, which is why we're deciding to make the switch," it says. "Slack has a rich conversational interface for agents, mature developer tooling and strong 3P integrations. While not all of us are building agents today, everyone at the company will benefit from a robust and useful agent ecosystem." Read more about the move on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/epssuPfr (Credit: Getty Images) #slack #meta #bigtech

President Donald Trump's popularity in Hollywood may soon take a turn for the better. Trump has voiced support for a federal tax incentive for movies and TV made in the US, which could give a huge boost to an industry that's been crushed by the pandemic, labor strikes, and productions moving overseas. "This is great news for people working in the rapidly changing and challenging film production business," Paul Hardart told me. The production incentive proposal was received by the creative community far better than Trump's idea for "tariffs" on foreign movies, which faced serious logistical questions. Still, the idea could face political and logistical challenges. "If it simply becomes another subsidy without changing production decisions, then it will just give tax dollars to productions that were already planned for the US," Hardart said. Could Trump's production credit proposal save Hollywood? Let me know what you think in the comments, and check out my full story here on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/ggvWBeTp