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Mark Zuckerberg's 'old-school Facebook hoodie' sells for Rs 14 lakh, Steve Jobs's tie for Rs 31 crore
The new owner of Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie received a handwritten note from the tech titan that read: 'One of my favorite old-school Facebook hoodies. I wore this all the time in the early days...'
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Ex-Google techie says her income tripled after getting divorced. Now earns Rs 8.7 crore pa
After choosing to stay off work for a year as she took care of her child, Venus Wang reentered the workforce after her divorce, overseeing software quality and operations at Google in San Francisco, ensuring reliability for products such as Gmail and Google Drive.
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Indians react to US offering 'gold card' for $5 million: 'Called my broker at 8 am to sell the...'
Speaking about the proposed 'gold card,' Donald Trump had said, 'It’s somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication, it’s a road to citizenship for people, and essentially people of wealth.'
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'Not knowing Hindi is often a serious handicap for us in Tamil Nadu': Zoho's Sridhar Vembu
Sridhar Vembu said it would be 'smart' for the people of Tamil Nadu to learn Hindi and added that he himself took five years to learn to read the language. 'I can now understand about 20 percent of what is spoken,' he said.
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Bengaluru job call for techies offering Rs 40 LPA is viral: 'College doesn't matter, resume not needed'
Several X users praised Smallest AI founder Sudarshan Kamath's preference for skills over an impressive resume. Others, however, claimed that the salary was too low for a 'cracked engineer'.
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Mukesh Ambani's vision and thinking truly dwarf me: Harsh Goenka
In a clip shared by Harsh Goenka, a former president of Reliance Industries gave an insight into Mukesh Ambani's 'incredible' leadership capabilities. 'Here I was thinking of a drone and he was thinking of satellites,' he said.
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Success tips from IIT-Madras alumnus and CEO of $61 billion company: 'People giving me jobs...'
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, who has roots in Bengaluru, credited his success to repeatedly taking on roles and assuming responsibilities he had never handled before.
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Satya Nadella shares how Indian farmers use Microsoft's AI tools to improve yield: 'Phenomenal'
Satya Nadella was referring to the Agricultural Development Trust (ADT) of Baramati in Maharashtra that has been using Microsoft AI technology with a select group of farmers in the drought-prone region who signed up for it.
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Satya Nadella reveals what he would do if he ever quit Microsoft: 'Would love to find some domain...'
Despite working with Microsoft for 34 years, CEO Satya Nadella said that each year he feels more excited at the prospect of working with the tech giant with a sense of purpose and mission.
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Man says doctor left mop inside wife's stomach after C-section delivery. 'Spent lakhs on treatment'
After checking the CT scan, Dr Anil S of Puttur City Hospital had allegedly refused to admit the presence of a foreign body in the woman's stomach and had instead prescribed some pills claiming that the 'blood clot' would dissolve soon.
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Namita Thapar says this 'fabulous' Shark Tank India participant is on track to do ARR of Rs 100 crore
Namita Thapar said that the company had made Rs 5 crore in sales in January and that its founder has the domain expertise and the kind of drive, intellect, and warmth that is 'so endearing and unique'.
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Zoho's Sridhar Vembu hits out at DocuSign: Don't need 6,705 employees to make digital sign software
Sridhar Vembu's reaction was triggered by a US-based co-founder, Andrew Wilkinson, who claimed that his 'jaw dropped' after finding out how much his company pays for DocuSign.
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Meta hikes bonuses for executives from 75% to 200% after laying off 3,600 employees
A committee for Meta's board of directors approved the hike in bonuses after determining that its cash compensation for its executives was much lower than that enjoyed by executives holding similar positions at rival companies.
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Meta lays off employee who worked for 15 years. She sues it for sexual assaults, denied promotions
Describing one dark incident, Kelly Stonelake said that at a party with a group of colleagues, a male executive in her management chain said drunkenly, ‘Hey Kelly, what would your husband say if you called him right now and said that you f####d me?’
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This Indian-origin YouTuber invited Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to his podcast. He agreed in 4 minutes
Another interesting aspect of the exchange between the two was that podcast host Dwarkesh Patel chose to write to Satya Nadella using Microsoft Outlook and not Gmail -- a fact that further amused social media users.
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Bill Gates says he regretted leaving Harvard to lead Microsoft as its first CEO
Initially, Bill Gates tried to balance running Microsoft while studying and even tried to convince another high school friend and early Microsoft programmer Ric Weiland to 'take charge of things,' so he could complete his degree.
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Harsh Goenka says Fevicol's 'we will stick together' marketing campaign at Kumbh Mela was 'great'
In the video shared by Harsh Goenka, content creator Harvinder Singh Sabarwal explained that Fevicol didn't just advertise their product, 'they solved a real serious problem that affects hundreds and thousands of people'.
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Edelweiss MF's Radhika Gupta on benefits of starting SIP in your kid's name: 'You tend to be...'
Edelweiss Mutual Funds MD and CEO has long been an advocate of starting young when it comes to investing. In 2023, Radhika Gupta revealed that she had begun to invest in equities for her son when he was just six months old.
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'Someone was trying to get me sentenced to death in Pakistan': Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
The Meta CEO added that while he was not worried about the possibility of his plane being shot down should he ever fly over Pakistan, he felt the incident was avoidable.
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JPMorgan employee was asked to 'get the f*** out of here' for questioning CEO Jamie Dimon's RTO policy
Analyst Nicolas Welch explained to CEO Jamie Dimon that his team was composed of seven people located in different geographies, including India, and work in different time zones. So working from the office did not make sense for the team.
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Longevity experts share 5 strategies for longer, healthier lives: 'I take all of my vacation days'
Five researchers and doctors who work with aging patients to learn more about what they do to improve their own health span share their tips on longevity.
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'Lil loves of my life': Shivon Zilis shares photo of twins she had with Elon Musk. Tesla CEO reacts
Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis had earlier told some of her colleagues that she was not involved romantically with Elon Musk and conceived the children with him through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
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Elon Musk wanted to keep our baby a secret: Influencer who claims to be mother of his 13th child
'[Elon] Musk was very funny. He was smart. He was very down to earth,' Ashley St. Clair said, adding that their interaction began after the richest person in the world slid into her DMs on X in May 2023.
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Nithin Kamath says Bryan Johnson debunked a myth that only Delhi has air quality problem
Zerodha CEO Nikhil Kamath said after recording the podcast with brother Nikhil Kamath, he got an AQI meter for their JP Nagar office located in a 'quiet corner of Bengaluru' but was 'shocked' to see the reading to be more than 120.
