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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Imagine a Tuesday morning on a trading floor, with screens flickering green, analysts updating tickers, and a person in the corner using their phone to open a press release. A stock split was just announced by a big company. The stock rises in a matter of minutes. Enthusiasm floods message…
On a Tuesday afternoon, when someone is refreshing their brokerage account for the third or fourth time, an unexpected thought occurs: what if a computer could do this? Instead of a robo-advisor with inflexible allocation sliders, it should be able to converse, comprehend context, pose follow-up queries, and provide an…
In Illinois, something subtly predictable occurs every spring. After filing their state income tax returns and making a few bank account checks, people begin to wonder. The week becomes two. Two becomes four. The question that has always existed but seemed rude to ask aloud becomes inevitable around the five-week…