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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S14S42Beeper Took On Apple's iMessage Dominance. Now It's Been Acquired  Late last year the messaging app Beeper raised the ire of Apple when it found a way to recreate AppleâÂÂs infamous âÂÂblue bubbleâ messaging on Android. Apple later hobbled Beeper, but itâÂÂs not an entirely unhappy ending: The startup has been acquired in a deal valued at $125 million.Founded three years ago, Beeper is being snapped up by Automattic, the respected parent company of WordPress.com, the blogging and content management platform, as well as Tumblr, which it acquired in 2019. Beeper cofounder Eric Migicovsky said that the company will continue to exist as a stand-alone product within Automattic, and that all of BeeperâÂÂs 27 employeesâÂÂwho, like AutomatticâÂÂs employees, are entirely remoteâÂÂwill be absorbed into the larger entity.
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S15S17The compelling case for axions as our dark matter  Astrophysically, normal matter — even with all the different forms it can take — cannot on its own explain the Universe we observe. Beyond all the stars, planets, gas, dust, plasma, black holes, neutrinos, photons, and more, there’s an overwhelming suite of evidence suggesting that the Universe contains two ingredients whose origins remain unknown: dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter, in particular, has an incredible amount of astrophysical evidence supporting its existence and abundance — outmassing normal matter by a 5:1 ratio. Still, its particle nature remains elusive, though we’re quite certain it must have been cold, or slow-moving at early times, rather than hot, where it would have moved faster in the young Universe. One of the leading candidates for its nature, the axion, remains compelling more than 40 years after it was first hypothesized, though it’s rarely even presented to the general public. Could this intriguing theoretical particle be the solution to the dark matter puzzle? That’s what Reggie Grünenberg wants to know, asking:
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S43The 5 Best RSS Feeders (2023): Feedly, Inoreader, and Tips Whether you are sick of social media, want to get away from endless notifications, or just want to read your news all in one spot, an RSS reader can help. RSS stands for "really simple syndication." It's a protocol that allows an RSS reader to talk to your favorite websites and get updates from them. Instead of visiting 10 sites to see what's new, you view a single page with all new content.There are two parts to RSS: the RSS reader and the feeds from your favorite websites. RSS has been around awhile now, so there are a lot of very good RSS readers out there. Most of them feature built-in search and suggestions, so you don't have to go hunting for feeds yourself. You just might discover some cool new sites to read.
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S7Editor's Note: In Japan, the fears are captured in the phrase 'moshitora', an abbreviation that means "What if Trump?", or its more fretful variants, 'hobotora' ("probably Trump") and 'moutora' ("already Trump"). Some are optimistic that even if Mr Trump returns, America's allies in Asia will face fewer problems than those in Europe. They point to the fact that America First types see China as a key adversary. There will be "continuity" in how the Biden and Trump administrations see the situation in the Indo-Pacific, Alexander Gray, who served on Mr Trump's national security council, told a recent conference in Tokyo.
S18Why a neurodivergent team will be a golden asset in the AI workplace  The world now sits on the precipice of transformational change driven by the emergence of new technology. Perhaps counterintuitively, as this transformation carves out a very special and complementary place for human neurodivergence, it will serve to powerfully elevate the crucial importance of neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset.AI is set to redefine how we understand our role in the world when it comes to linear thinking tasks. In fact, the domain of linear thinking, in all its forms, will be consumed by artificial intelligence over the coming 15 years, especially as we move gradually closer toward the viability of quantum computation, which should serve to turbocharge the productivity and speed of AI research systems to unimaginable heights.
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S40The 12 Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection (2024) If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDVinyl's biggest selling point isn't the sound. It's the physical experience: shiny, delicate records; liner notes writ large; covers you want to frame and hang on your wall; and the way the stylus spins across the jagged surface, reproducing your favorite artists' music as if by magic.
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S8How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  As a new leader, learning to make good decisions without hesitation and procrastination is a capability that can set you apart from your peers. While others vacillate on tricky choices, your team could be hitting deadlines and producing the type of results that deliver true value. That’s something that will get you — and them — noticed. Here are a few of a great decision: Great decisions are shaped by consideration of many different viewpoints. This doesn’t mean you should seek out everyone’s opinion. The right people with the relevant expertise need to clearly articulate their views to help you broaden your perspective and make the best choice. Great decisions are made as close as possible to the action. Remember that the most powerful people at your company are rarely on the ground doing the hands-on work. Seek input and guidance from team members who are closest to the action. Great decisions address the root cause, not just the symptoms. Although you may need to urgently address the symptoms, once this is done you should always develop a plan to fix the root cause, or else the problem is likely to repeat itself. Great decisions balance short-term and long-term value. Finding the right balance between short-term and long-term risks and considerations is key to unlocking true value. Great decisions are timely. If you consider all of the elements listed above, then it’s simply a matter of addressing each one with a heightened sense of urgency.
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Editor's Note: The only surefire way to evaluate the efficacy of a decision is to assess the outcomes. You'll discover, over time, whether a decision was good, bad, or indifferent. But if you rely only on retrospective analysis, the path to better decisions can be tenuous: Hindsight is incredibly prone to attribution bias. S16
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S41Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI Students have submitted more than 22 million papers that may have used generative AI in the past year, new data released by plagiarism detection company Turnitin shows.A year ago, Turnitin rolled out an AI writing detection tool that was trained on its trove of papers written by students as well as other AI-generated texts. Since then, more than 200 million papers have been reviewed by the detector, predominantly written by high school and college students. Turnitin found that 11 percent may contain AI-written language in 20 percent of its content, with 3 percent of the total papers reviewed getting flagged for having 80 percent or more AI writing. (Turnitin is owned by Advance, which also owns Condé Nast, publisher of WIRED.) Turnitin says its detector has a false positive rate of less than 1 percent when analyzing full documents.
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S9Editor's Note: The basic concept behind solar geoengineering is that by spraying certain particles high above the planet, humans could reflect some amount of sunlight back into space as a means of counteracting climate change.
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S10Editor's Note: Extending the lifetime of existing nuclear plants could help cut emissions and is generally cheaper than building new ones. So just how long can we expect nuclear power plants to last? S26TikTok Ban Update: GOP Senate Leader Signals Support  "Requiring the divestment of Beijing-influenced entities from TikTok would land squarely within established constitutional precedent," McConnell said, adding "it would begin to turn back the tide of an enormous threat to America's children."Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell told reporters on Monday she will be meeting with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Intelligence Committee chair Mark Warner and "then we will have a game plan on how to proceed."
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S39India's electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust  At a small factory just north of Delhi, a welder named Ram Baran spends several hours each day training his coworkers in metal cutting, molding, and shaping bodies of three-wheeler electric vehicles.Baran is not an engineer by education. He started working at the factory in 2017 as a helper — dusting, cleaning, and organizing items. A year later, he got the opportunity to upskill and get trained in welding by Chinese engineers. Nearly 80% of Baran’s 200 co-workers have followed a similar trajectory. “[They] taught us all the work,” Baran told Rest of World. “They taught us welding — how to put the parts and cut them. Over time, I picked up the work and got promoted. Now, our people can also teach these things.”
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S13Editor's Note: The US is the biggest supplier, providing an estimated 68% of Israel's foreign-sourced weapons. But Germany, providing around 30%, is also a serious supplier. Others are believed to include Britain, Italy and Australia - although Penny Wong, the Australian foreign affairs minister, has said her country has not supplied weapons since the start of the Gaza conflict.
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S19Why "the pinch" can become your greatest problem-solving tool  We do this all the time in the lab. At so many junctures in our work, something takes an unexpected turn, or a solution stubbornly eludes us. We try to use those moments to refocus our attention and press on with renewed energy. We continually have to “pinch past” our perceptions of what’s possible. We need to constantly challenge and often disrupt groupthink, dogmas in the field, other people’s assumptions, and even our own assumptions. Each of us focuses and refocuses this way, and, like a relay team, we can do it collectively. In a brainstorming environment like ours, there’s often someone who’s having a lightning moment that charges the atmosphere for the rest of us. When we look at new problems, it’s important to try to come up with new solutions and resist the mind’s gravitational pull to consider existing technologies or solutions, which often leads to suboptimal results. We review the existing technologies in our toolbox when we start, but we’re also cautious because there’s a natural momentum, a gravitational pull, to just go with what you know, and you can waste precious time and resources—easily a couple years to see a research cycle through—trying to adapt existing technologies, only to encounter new complexities and eventually realize that you needed different thinking and different solutions from the beginning. We work intentionally to avoid the path of least resistance. How? We use strategic questions to pinch our attention.
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S29EXCLUSIVE: New Research Suggests Childcare Gaps Hinder Small Business Growth  Fifty-nine percent of small business owners affirm that barriers to child care access are preventing them from growing their business, with about a quarter of founders noting that they've had to shutter their company entirely, and return to the broader workforce that offers more flexibility, because of child care problems. That's according to a new research report from Small Business Majority, a small business advocacy group in Washington D.C. In late January, the organization polled 566 founders across the country who are either working parents or employ working parents. The report does not mince words: a lack of affordable and accessible child care is preventing the country's entrepreneurs from flourishing. Thirty-nine percent of founders share that they missed out on business opportunities due to child care problems, while another 51 percent of business owners say they've faced diminished productivity when staff face issues accessing care for their children.Â
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S45Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation Climate law experts are already calling it one of the most impactful rulings on human rights and climate change ever made. Today's judgment, from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), was read out in front of an eclectic gathering of concerned plaintiffs from around the continent.A group of older women from Switzerland, young people from Portugal, and a former French mayorâall had brought cases to the court alleging that their governments were not doing enough to battle the climate crisis now regularly ravaging Europe with heat waves, droughts, and other extreme weather.
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S48Pop Music Is Mad. Social Media Loves It Future and Metro Boomin's "Like That" landed with the force of an atomic bomb. Released last month, the thumping diss track hit the Billboard Hot 100 in a flash but went dynamite across X, Instagram, and TikTok thanks to a surprise verse from Kendrick Lamar, the Compton rapper who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 and who is considered by many to be the best rapper alive today. It reverberated not just because of Lamar's lyricism but because of who the lyrics were calling out: his friends turned frenemies, Drake and J Cole.Together, the three of them are considered to be among rap's current elite, a claim Lamar took issue with. In a flurry of vicious one-liners, he made clear that the throne was his alone. ("Muthaf*** the big three / it's just big me" is one of the jabs everybody refuses to shut up about.) Lamar is a nimble technician who has a mind-melting sense for narrative, scene, and plot in his song writing, and though reactions variedâDrake and Cole fans are loyal to the end, even when they're on the losing sideâthere was no denying Lamar's lyrical aptitude on "Like That."
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S4Editor's Note: "Positional goods", which boost the status of their owners, are also still likely to exist and are, by their nature, scarce. Even if AIs surpass humans in art, intellect, music and sport, humans will probably continue to derive value from surpassing their fellow humans; for example, by having tickets to the hottest events. In 1977 Fred Hirsch, an economist, argued in "The Social Limits to Growth" that, as wealth increases, a greater fraction of human desire consists of positional goods. Time spent competing goes up, the price of such goods increases and so their share of GDP rises. This pattern may continue in an AI Utopia. S6Editor's Note: The interest rates facing governments are not yet falling, even as economic growth and inflation come down. This is already making the fiscal arithmetic more daunting. For instance, the Italian government's primary position consistent with a stable debt ratio has fallen from a deficit of 1% of GDP last year to a surplus of 2% in this one, according to our calculations. America is in a pretty similar position. Further falls in inflation, a slowdown in growth or higher rates would make it more difficult still for governments to stabilise their debt. S27How Entrepreneurs Responded to Uber and Lyft's Threat to Leave Minneapolis  When Uber and Lyft announced they planned to leave Minneapolis on May 1 if the city didn't change an ordinance requiring them to pay drivers more, a gaggle of ridesharing startups emerged to replace them.Last month the municipal council approved the measure guaranteeing drivers the equivalent of the city's $15.57 hourly minimum wage, despite a mayoral vow to veto it--a move members promptly overrode. The resulting standoff has Minnesota's Democratic Governor Tim Walz seeking a compromise to avoid countless residents of the Twin Cities and their suburbs being denied the convenient access to transport that many have come to rely on.
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S28How a Small Business Made an NYC Earthquake T-Shirt in Less Than an Hour--and Sold More Than 1,000  Kerry Colley's immediate reaction to the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that struck New York City on April 5 was not to run for safety. Instead, he rushed to tell his staff they needed to design a T-shirt commemorating the seismic event. Quick to jump on the opportunity, Colley, owner of the Upper West Side location of custom T-shirt franchise Big Frog, sold his first "I Survived the NYC Earthquake" T-shirt less than 20 minutes after the event occurred. The business has since sold nearly 1,200 earthquake T-shirts, and on its busiest day, customers waited up to two hours just to get their hands on a piece. Now, the business also sells the T-shirt online.Â
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S32Apple Plans for Music Streaming Eyed by EU Antitrust Body  EU antitrust regulators are checking if an Apple proposal would comply with their order to let Spotify and other music streaming services inform users of payment options outside its App Store, the European Commission said on Monday.The iPhone maker risks antitrust charges and fresh fines if its proposal announced last Friday fails to satisfy the EU competition enforcer, which issued its order together with a $2 billion fine last month
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S49S50Forensic Genealogy Offers Families the Gift of Closure  The forensic scientist’s toolbox is growing thanks to creative methods that generate reliable leads, analyze evidence, identify suspects and solve cold casesAn attendee holds a photo of Cheri Domingo and her boyfriend Gregory Sanchez, who were killed in 1981, during the arraignment of Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State Killer" on April 27, 2018 in Sacramento, California.
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S116 Common Leadership Styles â and How to Decide Which to Use When  Research suggests that the most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances — be it a change in setting, a shift in organizational dynamics, or a turn in the business cycle. But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one. The good news is that personality is not destiny. Even if you’re naturally introverted or you tend to be driven by data and analysis rather than emotion, you can still learn how to adapt different leadership styles to organize, motivate, and direct your team.
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S12Editor's Note: Uncertainty is not just one thing. Sometimes you don't know what's going to happen, but you are aware you're going to encounter uncertainty. In other situations, you might not expect the unknown at all. Uncertainty can take place in the external world, like an uncertain outcome, or inside of us, like feeling uncertain. S25Fed Governor Goolsbee Urges Rethink of Stationary Interest Rates  "You've got to pay attention to how long do you want to be that restrictive," Goolsbee said of monetary policy, noting in an interview with Chicago radio station WBEZ that "if you're there too long, the unemployment rate is going to start going up."Â Goolsbee did not comment directly on the Fed's monetary policy outlook. U.S. central bankers are seeking data that would allow them to deliver on their projected three rate cuts in 2024. But the timing of the start of the easing has been challenged by sturdy inflation data since the start of the year.Â
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S336 Common Leadership Styles -- and How to Decide Which to Use When Research suggests that the most effective leaders adapt their style to different circumstances — be it a change in setting, a shift in organizational dynamics, or a turn in the business cycle. But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one. The good news is that personality is not destiny. Even if you’re naturally introverted or you tend to be driven by data and analysis rather than emotion, you can still learn how to adapt different leadership styles to organize, motivate, and direct your team.
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S34A Roadmap for Today's Entrepreneurs  Many people aspire to entrepreneurship but we all know it’s a high-risk endeavor. Bill Aulet, the Ethernet Inventors Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has for decades studied what it takes for start-ups to succeed and advises the next generation of founders on how to do it. He discusses the key trends and changes he’s seen over the past few years, and outlines concrete steps anyone can take to get a new venture — including those within larger organizations — off the ground. Aulet is the author of the newly updated book Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup.
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S20How the philosophy of sci-fi legend Stanislaw Lem can help us understand AI  Stanislaw Lem’s first-contact novel Solaris (1961) is the Polish writer’s most celebrated and enduring legacy. It features an ocean planet that conjures up life with no apparent purpose, at best perversely reflecting human wounds and desires. Unintelligible, alien, and therefore not easily communicable, the ocean in Solaris could be an archetype of inhuman intelligence: indifferent, foreign, and creative in its distorted reflection of humanity. A quick Google search reveals that multiple artificial intelligence (AI) companies christened their products after Lem’s novel. Solaris could be a prototype for computational cognition design that is not human-centred: ‘that inscrutable alien might be wise or cruel or unconcerned’, not an all-seeing God but rather ‘a nebular and numinous totality . . . [a] big alien brain’ (Bratton, 2020, p. 97). Summa Technologiae (1964a), Lem’s abstruse, 600-page-long theoretical work is less known, though it contains the rationale for his whole oeuvre. Titled after Summa Theologica (written 1265–1273, published 1485) by St. Thomas Aquinas, Lem’s philosophical tour de force might make one reread Solaris, and its descriptions of inhuman intelligence, as a theological—at least, metaphysical— problem. Indeed, many of Lem’s novels trace the limits of knowledge in an indifferent cosmos. Overviewing the most cutting-edge scientific discourses of the times, Summa is a work of futurology composed of eight chapters, each of which reframes theological questions as technological problems. The first chapter presents Lem’s views on the purpose of futurology, and subsequent chapters discuss similarities between technological and biological evolution; SETI; the possibility of computational intelligence; whether humans could be technologically omnipotent; whether humans could create artificial worlds and virtual cosmoses enclosed in themselves; machine knowledge; and whether humans could, akin to gods, engineer new lifeforms.
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S21Could our first alien contact be with intelligent spiders?  In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2015 science fiction novel Children of Time, a planet-wide evolutionary biology experiment goes wrong. Well, wrong from a human perspective. Instead of creating intelligent monkeys, the experiment results in intelligent spiders that become spacefaring. A creepy idea for many of us. So how real is the possibility of intelligent extraterrestrial spiders? Could we expect aliens to be that different from the humanoids so often portrayed in science fiction movies, especially those of the 1950s, as well as in UFO/UAP reports? There is an amazing diversity of spiders (order Araneae) on our planet. More than 50,000 species are known, and they’re found on every continent except Antarctica. Spiders interact with the world in sophisticated ways. Some can read subtle frequency variations in the vibration of their webs, while others can travel great distances using electrical fields in the atmosphere. Most spiders use silk webs to trap their prey, but not all do. Trapdoor spiders and many tarantulas ambush predators by hiding in burrows that can open and close like trap doors, using silk threads to detect the presence of prey.
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S35What Needs to Change About DEI -- and What Doesn't  As DEI work faces increasing scrutiny socially, politically, and legally, organizations are taking extra care to re-evaluate their DEI efforts. Leaders are right to consider change, not as a reaction to backlash, but to work toward a more accountable, transparent, and successful vision of what DEI could be. The author identifies three things that need to change: 1) Clumsy, jargon-heavy communication, 2) disconnected and decoupled DEI goals and programs, and 3) nonexistent or vanity DEI measurement. They also identify three things that should be maintained: 1) Responsiveness to broader society, 2) commitment to healthy organizations, and 3) the belief that we can be better.
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S44Arturia AstroLab Review: World-Class Synths in a Keyboard If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDArturia, the company behind popular software and hardware musical instruments, has long proven it can make great software synthesizers and virtual studio technology (VST) plug-ins. It's also shown it can build incredible hardware, whether that's analog drum machines or weirdo digital keyboards.
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S30Why Your Sales Team Should Embrace AI, According to an Executive Who Closed Deals for Snapchat, Meta, and Samsung  If there's one thing John Imah has learned from his decade-long career helping tech giants like Samsung, Twitch, Meta, and Snap, with business development and marketing, it's how to tell--or rather, sell--a story. "Whether it's an anecdote that humanizes the technology or a statistic that captures the market opportunity," says the serial entrepreneur, "the goal [of sales] is to leave the room with the audience not just understanding but believing in the vision." The trick, he says, is knowing how to read a room in the first place: "If I'm walking in the room with business people," says Imah, "I can craft the messaging to be more [about the] business but also still get the point across about the product," he says. "Tailoring the tone doesn't mean diluting the content; it's about making it resonate."
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S46S47S31How to Choose the Right Point of Sale Systems for Your Business  From receiving payments to managing inventory and providing sales reports, the right point of sale (POS) system can be vital for success. POS systems are platforms that allow merchants to process payments and mediate the interaction among a customer, merchant, and bank. But picking just one POS system might be ill-advised. Rather, many business owners use a mix of platforms and systems, including Ashley Jones, founder and CEO of Tones of Melanin, a Norfolk, Virginia-based maker of collegiate apparel for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
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S22Are the posthumans here yet?  A recent survey found that two-thirds of workers believe that by 2035 workers will have an edge in the labor market if they’re willing to have performance-enhancing microchips implanted in their bodies. Technologically enhanced humans have a rich history in science fiction, but there are many questions about what real-life cyborgs would look like—and whether they already exist.In 2017, Kevin Warwick, a robotics researcher and posthumanism enthusiast, examined technologies for human enhancement. He defines posthumanism as the permanent or semi-permanent implantation of machine components into a human body to enhance its abilities beyond the human norm.
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S23Jamie Dimon Predicts AI Will Be as 'Transformational' as Electricity  The JPMorgan Chase CEO and executive chairman touted the potential of the emerging technology in a letter to shareholders Monday. As innovations in AI take the world by storm, big banks are moving quickly to avoid leaving potentially billions on the table or falling behind their competitors. Teresa Heitsenrether, JPMorgan Chase's chief data and analytics officer, oversees adoption of AI across the company."While we do not know the full effect or the precise rate at which AI will change our business -- or how it will affect society at large -- we are completely convinced the consequences will be extraordinary and possibly as transformational as some of the major technological inventions of the past several hundred years: Think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet, among others," Dimon wrote in his shareholder letter. As the top executive at the largest U.S. bank, Dimon's commentary frequently sets the tone for others in the banking sector.
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S2Editor's Note: Eight years ago, when Musk first outlined his Mars plans, I characterized them as "audacity, madness, and brilliance." I still believe all three adjectives apply. If anything, the vision is more audacious. But as of today, with SpaceX having proven that rocket reusability is a very viable thing and with a vibrant Starship factory at hand, they do seem a little less mad. S376 Mistakes Leaders Make When Announcing Layoffs  Layoffs are trauma-inducing for an organization and its employees. When handled badly, some people (and organizations) never fully recover. Leaders make six common mistakes when communicating layoffs: 1) They’re not transparent about the state of the business; 2) They’re not clear on the path forward; 3) They don’t get the tone right; 4) They don’t offer remaining employees the opportunity to ask questions; 5) They don’t bring middle management on board; and 6) They don’t show appreciation to departing employees.
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S5Editor's Note: The scene had the trappings of a cartel bust. On April 5th Ecuadorean police, clad in balaclavas and carrying riot shields, arrived in armoured trucks to arrest Jorge Glas. But Mr Glas is not a gang leader - he is a former vice-president of Ecuador. He took refuge in Mexico's embassy in Quito, Ecuador's capital, in December to avoid being arrested on charges of corruption - and was granted asylum. Ecuador barged in and grabbed him anyway. S24Samsung Will Get $6.6 Billion to Expand Texas Chip Plant  The Biden administration plans to announce it is awarding more than $6 billion to South Korea's Samsung next week to expand its chip output in Taylor, Texas, as it seeks to ramp up chipmaking in the U.S., two people familiar with the matter said.The subsidy, which will be unveiled by Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo, will go toward construction of four facilities in Taylor, including one $17 billion chipmaking plant that Samsung announced in 2021, another factory, an advanced packaging facility and a research and development center, one of the sources said.Â
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S38The YouTube co-founder connecting Taiwan with Silicon Valley  Steve Chen, a Taiwan-born American entrepreneur, was the co-founder and chief technology officer of YouTube. He worked at PayPal and Facebook before founding the video platform and, later, helped lead its $1.65 billion acquisition by Google. After working on multiple other startups in Silicon Valley, Chen moved to Taipei in 2019 and has been investing in early-stage tech startups. In 2023, Taiwan’s startup ecosystem ranked 24th globally, behind other East Asian countries, including Singapore, China, Japan, and South Korea. A lack of funding, a small population of 24 million, and the government’s long-standing focus on the semiconductor sector have challenged the growth of tech startups. Chen is trying to bridge the gap by connecting Taiwan with Silicon Valley investors.
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S36Sustaining a Legacy of Giving in Turkey  Özyeğin Social Investments was founded by Hüsnü Özyeğin, one of Turkey’s most successful entrepreneurs, with a focus on education, health, gender equality, rural development, and disaster relief in Turkey. The company and the Özyeğin family have spent decades serving and improving communities in need. Their efforts led to the creation of one of Turkey’s top universities, the establishment of schools and rehabilitation centers, post 2023 earthquake humanitarian shelter and facilities, nationwide campaigns and an internationally recognized educational training initiative for young children, among other achievements.
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