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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Criticizes Elite Colleges in Earnings Call

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Criticizes Elite Colleges in Earnings Call

On Monday’s earnings call, Palantir executives took shots at elite education while expressing optimism about “blue collar” workers who use the company’s software products. “If you did not go to school, or you went to a school that’s not that great, or you went to Harvard or Princeton or Yale, once you come to Palantir, you’re a Palantirian, no one …

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Elon Musk retains title as the highest-paid CEO in history with $26 billion pay package—and the only thing he has to do is show up for two years

Elon Musk retains title as the highest-paid CEO in history with  billion pay package—and the only thing he has to do is show up for two years

The Tesla board has reinstated Elon Musk as the highest-paid CEO in history with a staggering new $29 billion pay package. His new deal with the $970 billion electric-vehicle maker comes after a Delaware judge twice rescinded Musk’s previous moonshot mega-grant. Musk’s pay has been held up in litigation for the past seven years.  “It is imperative to retain and …

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GitHub CEO Delivers Stark Message to Developers: Embrace AI or Get Out

GitHub CEO Delivers Stark Message to Developers: Embrace AI or Get Out

In an unambiguous message to the global developer community, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke warned that software engineers should either embrace AI or leave the profession. His candid statement, part of a blog post titled “Developers, Reinvented,” underscores the dramatic transformation underway in software development, a shift not just in how code is written, but in the very nature of what …

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his employees are refusing Zuckerberg’s $100 million payout—and he’s not even matching salaries to keep them

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his employees are refusing Zuckerberg’s 0 million payout—and he’s not even matching salaries to keep them

“Relative to other companies, a lot fewer people from Anthropic have been caught by these. And it’s not for lack of trying,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently revealed on the Big Technology Podcast. “I’ve talked to plenty of people who got these offers at Anthropic and who just turned them down. Who wouldn’t even talk to Mark Zuckerberg.” Meta’s been …

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Harley-Davidson Names Topgolf Leader as New CEO

Harley-Davidson Names Topgolf Leader as New CEO

Artie Starrs will be the new president and CEO of Harley-Davidson. – Business Wire/ AP Harley-Davidson appointed Artie Starrs, head of sports-entertainment company Topgolf, to be its new president and chief executive officer. Starrs will succeed Jochen Zeitz, who has led the motorcycle maker as chairman and CEO since 2020 and recently survived a shareholder’s attempt to remove him from …

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Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about $29 billion

Tesla awards CEO Musk millions of shares valued at about  billion

Tesla gave Elon Musk a stock grant of $29 billion on Monday as a reward for years of “transformative and unprecedented” growth despite a recent foray into right-wing politics that has hurt its sales, profits and its stock price. In giving its billionaire CEO 96 million in restricted shares, the electric car company noted that Musk hasn’t been paid in …

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Harley-Davidson names Topgolf's Arthur Starrs as CEO – Reuters

Harley-Davidson names Topgolf’s Arthur Starrs as CEO  Reuters Harley-Davidson Names Topgolf Leader as New CEO  The Wall Street Journal Harley-Davidson Hires Topgolf Head as Motorcycle Maker’s CEO  Bloomberg Harley-Davidson Appoints Artie Starrs as President and Chief Executive Officer  PR Newswire Harley-Davidson names Topgolf’s Arthur Starrs as new CEO  CNBC Source link

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Anysphere CEO Michael Truell on Cursor and the race to adopt AI coding

Anysphere CEO Michael Truell on Cursor and the race to adopt AI coding

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few episodes of Decoder while Nilay is out on parental leave, and I’m very excited for what we have planned. If you’ve followed my work at all, particularly when I was …

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Bayern Munich CEO touts move for Luis Díaz

Bayern Munich CEO touts move for Luis Díaz

Bayern Munich CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen has rolled up his sleeves and gotten involved in several pursuits so far this summer. One of those was Bayern Munich’s move for Liverpool FC winger Luis Díaz. Needless to say, Dreesen thinks the club did some good business with Liverpool on the transfer. “In Luis Díaz, we have succeeded in bringing in one of …

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