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Layoffs pushed Renee Rubens to rethink her career. She turned tea gifts into a business bringing in up to $30,000 a monthRenee Rubens turned her interest in premium loose-leaf tea into Symphony of Leaves Tea Company after years in corporate media sales and thr...- Exclusive: Unacademy founders Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini plan Rs 700 crore AI, deeptech fundThe fund, named Longshot Capital, has secured commitments of about Rs 300 crore and is targeting its first close in January 2027, following...
- Pete McPherson launched DoYouEvenBlog with just $100 in 2017; by 2025, his online publishing business was generating recurring income from its audiencePete McPherson had a career as a certified public accountant, but he had spent years experimenting with blogs and other online businesses. ...
- Winners of The ET Startup Awards 2026 to be feted todayHappy Friday! The who's who of the startup ecosystem will come together in Bengaluru today to honour the winners of The Economic Times Star...
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has a career lesson from 3 Nobel prize winners as AI forces layoffs and changes jobs across the worldBiocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw shared a message on persistence from three 2023 Nobel Prize winners as AI reshapes jobs and companie...
- Quote of the Day by Rumi: ‘Don’t grieve, anything you lose comes…’ - Why every loss in life opens space for a new beginning; mystic poet reminds us that true renewal always follows difficult changeLife unfolds in cycles, presenting us with both endings and new beginnings. What we perceive as loss often transforms into something differ...
- What looks like a normal Canadian home is actually made from 612,000 plastic bottlesTwo Canadian brothers have turned an astonishing 612,000 discarded plastic bottles into a concept home in Meteghan, Nova Scotia. Their comp...
- 'I was laid off 3 times in 2 years': Candidate applied to 50 companies in 4 months. 29 rejected him, 15 never replied. Job interview shares why she hired himA Delhi-based entrepreneur shared the story of a candidate who was laid off three times in two years and applied to 50 companies over four ...
- Vishal Garg, Indian-origin Better CEO who fired 900 employees on Zoom in 2021, sacked 5 years later; here's whyVishal Garg, the Indian-American entrepreneur, has been removed as chief executive of Better Home & Finance. The company's board cited conc...
- How Bill Ackman’s $14,000 Harvard job led him to Warren Buffett’s investing philosophy and eventually built his billion-dollar careerBill Ackman's journey began with a modest college sales position at Harvard University, earning $14,000. His foray into real estate quickly...
- Coimbatore company paid 20% of medical bills and gave a month long leave after the demise of an employee's fatherA Coimbatore-based company is earning praise after providing an employee over four weeks of leave following her father's death, contributin...
- American dream turns more distant for Indians as US tightens immigration rulesChanges in US immigration regulations are increasingly complicating matters for Indian nationals. New directives now allow for the swift de...
- Google layoff changed her life: Ex-employee says losing $200,000 job made her an award-winning actor-filmmaker with 'zero regrets'Former Google employee Trinette Faint says being laid off from her $200,000-a-year job in 2024 became the turning point that led her to pur...
- 'Do what you love, Papa': Entrepreneur celebrates layoff anniversary, calls daughter his 'secret co-founder' after four words changed his lifeHimanshu Jha lost his job at 44. This setback became a turning point. His daughter's advice, 'Do what you love, Papa', inspired him. He lef...
- Bengaluru CEO wins hearts after he shares how he helped 70 fired employees get jobs: 'If you call someone family ...'Harsh Pokharna, CEO of OkCredit, detailed his approach to downsizing where he personally spoke to each affected employee, explaining the la...
- Gagan Biyani was fired as Udemy chairman. Here’s how he converted the pink slip into a success storyBiyani was the former chairman of Udemy, a unicorn startup valued at $2 billion.
- Salesforce boss took a '10-day digital-detox trip' after sacking 7,000 employeesThe tech giant recently axed 10 per cent of its workforce to cut costs.
- Crypto exchange Huobi to lay off 20% of staffSun, a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur who is also a member of Huobi's global advisory board, said in an internal memo to Huobi staff t...
- Labour trouble at Nirula’sA questionnaire sent to the fast-food chain elicited no response and efforts to contact Nirula’s CEO Amit Chadha went in vain.
- Online layoff tracker captures economy's carnageIn a sour economy like this, entrepreneurs inevitably dream up new ways to turn lemons into lemonade.
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