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Key Takeaways Christina Qi started a hedge fund as an undergraduate at MIT, building it to trade $7 billion per day. A “really bad year in 2020” caused the hedge fund to shut down. Qi then started her current venture, a market data provider called Databento. Christina Qi boasts an impressive resume. As a 21-year-old […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways U.S. merchants paid a record $198.25 billion in card processing fees in 2025, up 219% since 2009. The card networks’ top interchange rates have barely moved in that time. Much of what merchants overpay is processor markup and add-on fees, and those can be negotiated. […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways More free time does not automatically bring fulfillment. You have to learn how you like to spend it. Money improves happiness when it buys back time and you decide deliberately where that time goes. At 36, I sold the fintech company I had spent years […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The modern workplace has long rewarded the ability to package thinking into tidy output over the quality of the thinking itself. AI now handles structuring, summarizing and formatting, which favors fast, associative thinkers, including many people with ADHD. Everyone is asking who AI will replace. […]

Key Takeaways Jeff Bezos predicted that AI could boost productivity enough for more families to live on a single income. He said those productivity gains could allow some people to support their families while working just three days a week. Bezos predicted hiring challenges, not mass unemployment, as more people choose to work less or […]

The chicken franchise wars are getting extra crispy. Chicken chain sales grew 5.3% in 2025, compared with 3% for the restaurant industry overall and 1.5% for burger chains, according to Technomic data cited by Restaurant Business. Raising Cane’s, Dave’s Hot Chicken and Wingstop have all helped fuel the fowl. Now McDonald’s wants in. The Golden […]

Key Takeaways Geoffrey Hinton is known as the “Godfather of AI” due to his pioneering work in the field. The Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist wants new AI models to be approved like drugs. Hinton’s call for greater oversight arrives as AI industry insiders raise alarms about the technology they are helping build. Should AI need […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways One of the biggest branding advantages of remaining private is the ability to maintain aconsistent long-term story. Public companies rarely communicate with only customers in mind; private companies don’t have that same problem. A company’s ownership structure can influence the way customers, employees and the […]

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Mindset varies by channel. The same buyer behaves differently depending on where you reach them. Customer interviews can reveal these mindset differences. Use interviews to improve the message, not just the channel. Interviews reveal how buyers describe their problems and which claims they trust or […]