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Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly

Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly

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Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of years at an ambitious $40 billion valuation. We talked with Lore in person in New York recently about Wonder and its ultimate aim of making meal planning effortless, but we also touched on Lore’s management philosophies. Below is some of what he had to say on the latter front, edited lightly for length and clarity. Lore on so-called founder mode, wherein founders and CEOs actively work with not only their direct reports but with “skip level” employees, too, in order to ensure that small challenges do not become big ones (Brian Chesky operates this way, as does Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, among many others): Yeah, the founder mode thing didn’t really resonate with me, because I operate differently. I really focus on this idea of vision, capital, and people. We have a meeting every week with the leadership team, and we …

Massive Verizon outage: Customers nationwide left without service, phones in ‘SOS mode’

Massive Verizon outage: Customers nationwide left without service, phones in ‘SOS mode’

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Check out our live blog coverage on the Verizon outage for more up-to-date details on the major cellular network issue. On Monday, Sept. 30, a massive Verizon outage has caused widespread, nationwide connectivity issues for customers across the U.S. Based on Google Trends, there’s been an uptick of people searching for, “Why is my phone in SOS?” This captures the experience that numerous Verizon users have been reporting; many have claimed that their phones are now limited to SOS service. Verizon Down: Widespread outage disrupts customers across U.S. As of 5:03 p.m. ET, DownDetector (a site that shares the same parent company as Mashable) revealed on X that there have been over 1.6 million reports of Verizon outages. Chart showing outage reports across three telecommunication companies Credit: DownDetector Fifty percent say that the issue involves their mobile phone, 35 percent say they’re not getting any signals, and 14 percent say they’re experiencing a total blackout. DownDetector percentages regarding Verizon outage Credit: DownDetector According to DownDetector’s outage map, it appears that outages are concentrated in the …

Mode for Joe | Andrew Katzenstein

Mode for Joe | Andrew Katzenstein

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Was the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson thinking of the film Black Narcissus (1947) when he wrote a song of that title? It’s an unlikely connection. The movie, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and based on a novel by Rumer Godden, follows a group of English nuns who struggle with isolation and sexual jealousy at a Himalayan convent. Henderson’s composition—a highlight of his 1969 album Power to the People, which was reissued this year by Jazz Dispensary—is a delicate waltz in a minor key, evoking enigmatic beauty and repose. Like much of Powell and Pressburger’s work, Black Narcissus is an expressionist fantasy full of bright colors and operatic emotions, while Henderson’s “Black Narcissus” is about as understated as a jazz composition can get. I haven’t found evidence that Henderson, one of the leading musicians of the post-bebop generation, ever saw the film. He told an interviewer that he came up with the name of the song first and wrote the melody afterward, but it’s unclear what he hoped the title would convey. The most …

The unconventional philosophy behind “founder mode”

The unconventional philosophy behind “founder mode”

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A few days ago, the investor Paul Graham published an essay with a provocative central insight: when it comes to growing a business, the conventional wisdom is almost always wrong. Instead of shifting to “manager mode” as a company expands — i.e. delegating tasks to subordinates — the most successful startup CEOs will continue to stay in “founder mode” forever. “Hire good people and give them room to do their jobs,” Paul writes. “Sounds great when it’s described that way, doesn’t it? Except in practice, judging from the report of founder after founder, what this often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground.” He adds: Key quote: “Whatever founder mode consists of, it’s pretty clear that it’s going to break the principle that the CEO should engage with the company only via his or her direct reports. ‘Skip-level’ meetings will become the norm instead of a practice so unusual that there’s a name for it. And once you abandon that constraint there are a huge …

Apple may be cooking something big with its new Game Mode. Here are 3 things we know

Apple may be cooking something big with its new Game Mode. Here are 3 things we know

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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET I recently had a chance to go hands-on with Apple’s upcoming Game Mode feature, and it’s clear that we’re about to see the next generation of mobile gaming across Apple’s ecosystem of iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks. Also: I did not expect this iOS 18 feature announced at WWDC to be my favorite (and it’s not AI) Mobile gaming is nothing new but it’s certainly growing up, with improvements that aim to make cutting-edge titles run on the iPhone with performance equal to other portable gaming devices. The first and foremost of these improvements is the Game Mode feature in iOS 18 due later this fall.  1. Game Mode turns the iPhone into a handheld Apple announced the Game Mode feature for iOS 18 at its WWDC 2024 keynote in June, but with all the other big news mentioned, you may have missed it. To recap, activating Game Mode on your iPhone aims to maximize immersion by jacking up the performance and providing consistently high frame rates for hours of continuous play, reducing dips …

Automatically Trigger iPhone Low Power Mode Earlier

Automatically Trigger iPhone Low Power Mode Earlier

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Apple Says iOS 17.5 Coming ‘Soon’ With These New Features for iPhones Apple today announced that iOS 17.5 will be released to the public “soon,” following over a month of beta testing. While the software update is relatively minor, it does have a few new features and changes, as outlined in the list below. “The new Pride Radiance watch face and iPhone and iPad wallpapers will be available soon with watchOS 10.5, iOS 17.5, and iPadOS 17.5,” said Apple, in its… Source link

WhatsApp’s latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’

WhatsApp’s latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’

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WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode,” the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says that over the years, it has primarily focused on adding utility to the app and that while the product continues to grow, its design needs to evolve as well.  The messaging app is introducing a new color palette after considering over 35 different colors. WhatsApp focused on deeper tones to reduce eye strain in low-light situations. The app’s dark mode, a popular option for many people, is now one shade darker to make it easier to read messages. Image Credits: WhatsApp WhatsApp is adding a native bottom navigation bar on Android to make it easier for users to find what they’re looking for quickly. The new navigation bar, which has been available on iOS for quite some time now, lets you quickly look at your chats, updates, communities, and calls.  As for iOS users, WhatsApp is making it easier to send photos and videos thanks …

How to put iPhone in recovery mode

How to put iPhone in recovery mode

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It might not happen every day, but there’s nothing more frustrating than our sweet, sweet technology failing us. iPhones are no exception. If your screen is stuck on the Apple logo for a long time, or it prompts you to connect to your computer screen or simply tells you it’s in recovery mode, then all you need to do is follow the steps below in order to recover and restore it. Mashable Light Speed SEE ALSO: How to set up Siri on your iPhone How to put your iPhone in recovery mode and restore it What You Need iPhone laptop or desktop computer Step 3: Open Finder, Apple Devices, or iTunes. If you’re on Mac, use Finder. If you’re on PC, open Apple Devices. If you don’t have the Apple Devices app or are using an operating system older than macOS Mojave, open iTunes. Step 4: Wait until the screen says “Connect to computer”. Step 5: Press the following buttons in the following order. If you have an iPhone 8 or later, you need to …

Hades 2 God Mode – what it does and how to activate it

Hades 2 God Mode – what it does and how to activate it

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Hades was great. One of the best games in years and now we have the Early Access version of Hades 2 to play with and that makes us very happy here at Readwrite Gaming. While many of the things such as God Mode in Hades 2 will be familiar to you if you played through the first game, if you are new, or even need a refresher, then our Hades 2 pages will help you out now end. Today we are going to look at Hades 2 God Mode – What it does, how to activate it, and what effect it will have on your game. After you learn all this you will be able to decide if God Mode is for you or not, so let’s crack on shall we? How to turn on God Mode. Hades God Mode makes a return as it was actually in the original game as well and turning it on is simple. You will find it in Hades 2’s Gameplay options – it’s the top option and is …

5 Signs You’re Leaving Survival Mode

5 Signs You’re Leaving Survival Mode

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Finding yourself in survival mode can begin to feel suffocating. It might always feel like you’re on edge, anxious, and drained. And even though we do our best to help ourselves, it can be tricky to gauge our success. So, how do we tell if the steps we’re taking to get out of survival mode are actually working? Therapist and trauma expert Logan Cohen shares five signs that you’re on the path to healing and getting out of survival mode. 5 Signs You’re Leaving Survival Mode 1. You understand that what our culture sees as normal can be dysfunctional Wondering if you’re getting out of survival mode? One sure sign is when you start to recognize that what our society considers normal is actually dysfunction. RELATED: The Street-Smart Survival Tactic So Effective It’s Been Used Since 300 B.C. I had a personal experience with this when my fiance and I watched a video of a girl who insisted that her boyfriend shouldn’t be allowed to open doors to other women. “It’s disrespectful,” the girl expressed …