Richard Dickson, CEO of Gap Inc. Courtesy: Gap Inc. New Gap CEO Richard Dickson has spoken about his experience upon joining the struggling company from toy business Mattel in August. “You barely knew what we were actually selling,” he said on Wednesday, describing how the firm’s four apparel brands had leant heavily on promotions and … Read more
Vlad Tenev, co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, rings the opening bell at the Nasdaq on July 29, 2021. Source: The Nasdaq Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he doesn’t believe that the payment for order flow (PFOF) model of market-maker routing that the company incorporates in the U.S. is under threat. That’s despite calls from notable … Read more
NYT Columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and C.E.O. of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger speak during the New York Times annual DealBook summit on November 29, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said Wednesday he will no longer tolerate his company’s partners and creative … Read more
Linda Yaccarino: CEO of X speaking with CNBC’s Sara Eisen on Aug. 10th, 2023. CNBC X CEO Linda Yaccarino addressed the explicit comments Elon Musk hurled at advertisers during what she called a “wide ranging” and “candid” interview with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York Wednesday. “If somebody’s going to … Read more
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives for the Inaugural AI Insight Forum in Russell Building on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images U.S. chipmakers are at least a decade away from “supply chain independence” from China, Nvidia CEO … Read more
The Blue Zone entrance at the Dubai Exhibition Center ahead of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. More than 70,000 politicians, diplomats, campaigners, financiers and business leaders will fly to Dubai to talk about arresting the world’s slide toward environmental catastrophe. Photographer: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty Images … Read more
Bob Iger, Disney, at Apple program Source: Apple Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger told employees Tuesday during an internal town hall that he is looking forward to “building again” after spending 2023 mending parts of the business that “needed attention.” “I feel that we’ve just emerged from a period of a lot of fixing … Read more
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The crypto industry can finally close the chapter on a litany of scandals and problems after Binance was hit with a historic settlement by the … Read more
Sam Altman will return as CEO of OpenAI, the startup tweeted early Wednesday morning. The move follows immense pressure from employees and investors on the board that ousted him less than a week ago. Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join OpenAI’s board, the Microsoft-backed startup said, with Taylor … Read more
Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao pleads guilty to felony charges Tuesday related to his failure to prevent money laundering on the crypto exchange platform. Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Tuesday named a new CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange he founded, after pleading guilty to federal money laundering charges and stepping down as the … Read more