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Kiera Fields

Kiera Fields

Associate Editor at BUSINESS INSIDER - London Bureau

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  • English
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  • Finance & Banking Services
  • Technology

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I moved my family from California to Texas: pros and cons

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jian Jiao, the principal data engineer at BP in Austin, Texas. This text has been edited for length and clarity.I worked at Google in the Sunnyvale-Mountain View area. I had been living in California since graduating from college. My partner and I started considering a move in 2020 during the pandemic. While we liked the area, we worried about its future. The Bay Area social culture and safety were changing.The Bay Area had a great job market…
about 2 years ago
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The CEO of Pret was promoted 10 times from store manager to chief e...

Pano Christou was 21 when he started at Pret a Manger as a store manager in London. Nineteen years and 10 promotions later, he’s the CEO, a position he’s held for just over four years.Pret has 45 locations in New York and a handful of others in the US — mainly on the East Coast — but more than 250 in London and close to 500 in the UK. It was acquired by the German holding company JAB in 2018 for $2 billion.When Christou left school, he went to work at McDonald’s. He earned an hourly wage at othe…
about 2 years ago
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Side hustles for introverts: which remote online businesses don't r...

TikToks touting the best side hustles for introverts have amassed hundreds of thousands of views.The creators often suggest similar money-making methods that require little interaction with clients, such as copywriting, UX designing, and renting or selling products online via sites like Etsy or Poshmark. Taking online surveys and blogging are also avenues for introverts to make money.Many digital entrepreneurs start their businesses as a way to circumvent the nine-to-five office routine. Because…
about 2 years ago
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4 Homeowners Put Tiny Houses in Their Backyards As Side Hustles

Tiny houses, small dwellings that are on average 150 square feet, have become an emerging trend as Americans want to reduce their living costs. Home Depot now sells a prefabricated tiny house for $44,000.Housing shortages are fueling the boom in tiny living. New York City is holding a competition to give select residents up to $395,000 each to build a tiny home in their backyards, garages or attics.More entrepreneurial Americans see these tiny houses as an opportunity to make money from empty sp…
about 2 years ago
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Lawsuit Filed Against a Bitcoin Mine in Texas Shows Links to China:...

After China banned all crypto transactions and mining in September 2021, bitcoin mining companies increasingly turned to places like rural parts of Nebraska, Wyoming, and especially Texas.Recent reporting by The New York Times suggests these crypto mines are leading to some worrying socio-economic implications.A bitcoin mine in the 281-person town of Channing, Texas, is being sued for allegedly not paying workers. BitRush, also known as BytesRush, is owned by a 23-year-old NYU student, Jerry Yu,…
almost 2 years ago
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Elon Musk's X will go to court after failing to pay staff millions ...

A federal judge allowed a lawsuit against X, formerly known as Twitter, to move ahead on Friday. The company is accused of failing to pay staff their promised annual bonuses.The lawsuit was filed in June by Mark Schobinger, the company’s former head of compensation, on behalf of himself and thousands of other current and former employees.The claimants are suing the company for allegedly failing to honor verbal promises that all employees working at X as of January 1, 2023, would be paid a portio…
almost 2 years ago
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What it was like to work closely with Steve Jobs on the first Mac

Working with Steve Jobs at Apple in 1983 was Rony Sebok's first job after college. She was part of the team that launched the first Mac computer.
almost 2 years ago
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The UAE is set to be the world's 'wealth magnet' this year, with 6,...

Millionaires are choosing one place above all to move to, according to a new report: the United Arab Emirates.According to data from the latest report by Henley & Partners, a firm that advises the wealthy on where to move to protect and grow their assets, 6,700 millionaires are projected to move to the UAE this year.That’s nearly double the inflow to the US, which had the second-highest expected migration of millionaires, at 3,800.The US, however, still has the largest overall population of mill…
over 1 year ago
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Elon Musk sure wants people to know he named Open AI - Business Ins...

Elon Musk reminded the audience at Cannes Lions on Wednesday that he was the person to name OpenAI as he made a jab at the direction the company has taken since then.Musk took to the festival stage as a guest speaker in an interview with WPP CEO Mark Read, where he discussed technical innovation.During the conversation, Read breached the topic of AI and the future of tech.Musk, who cofounded OpenAI in 2015 but reportedly left the company three years later, has often traded barbs over the future…
over 1 year ago
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Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't have a Hawaiian doomsday bunker, ju...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg a reportedly 4,500-sqaure-foot basement in his Hawaii compound was just a "little shelter."
12 months ago
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I worked as an undercover FBI agent for 23 years. Here's what it wa...

Scott Payne, a former FBI agent, spent most of his 23-year career as an undercover agent. Going undercover was voluntary and took intense training.
7 months ago