Beyoncé launched SirDavis American Whisky in 2024 with Moët Hennessy as her partner. Made sense at the time. Pair a celebrity with that kind of cultural pull to LVMH’s distribution machine, and you’ve got shelf space most new brands would…
Something worth paying attention to just happened in the Carolinas. Optus Financial Corporation, based in Columbia, South Carolina, and M&F Bancorp out of Durham, North Carolina, have signed a definitive merger agreement — and the resulting bank will carry $1.27…
Two months. That’s how long Unconventional AI existed before it closed one of the largest seed rounds in tech history — $475 million, at a $4.5 billion valuation, for a company that had shipped no product, disclosed no revenue, and…
Somebody in Florida just matched all six Mega Millions numbers. Jackpot: north of $800 million. By tomorrow there’ll be the usual wave of confetti graphics and “10 things I’d buy” listicles, and by next week most of that coverage will…
Cyrus Harbin used to read poetry to strangers for a living. Before that clicked into a career, he drove for Lyft — no computer science degree, no bootcamp certificate, nothing that looks like a normal entry point into an industry…
