CEO expectations are changing—thanks, Delta

Wall Street wins again: Affirm IPO leaves $1.23 billion (at least) on the table

Here we go again. You’d think that proliferation of direct listings and SPACs last year that enable founders, venture capitalists and big investors to take enterprises public their way would be loosening Wall Street’s grip on the IPOs––a longstanding bonanza for investment banks. But in 2020, 194 tradtional IPOs, the highest total since 2014, got […]

The miseducation of A.I.: Systems trained using the internet can develop gender, race, and age bias, new study finds

A new report from Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) unit found that A.I. systems being trained using the internet are inheriting and adapting the worst of it, including articles shared on Reddit. Read More

How Toast came back from the brink

Restaurant software maker Toast laid off half of its workforce at the start of the pandemic. Now it is a $30 billion-plus company Read More