Kalshi’s CEO says the scrutiny his company is facing is just part of a cycle that most disruptive startups must go through. Tarek Mansour, the prediction market’s cofounder, spoke on CNBC on Monday about the lawsuits Kalshi is facing from multiple states. “I think the more interesting thing that’s at play here is that you
Doug Wood has spent 25 years building Tommy Bahama into a brand recognized well beyond golf courses and beach resorts. He also says he can tell, almost on sight, where a customer is from. “Typically, you can tell East Coast, West Coast really fast,” Wood told Fortune in a wide-ranging and rather hilarious conversation riddled
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sidestepped investors’ questions about preorder demand for the company’s long-awaited Specs smart glasses during Monday’s earnings call, just weeks before the device’s September launch event. “What we’re hearing from folks is really that they want to try Specs,” Spiegel told investors. “It’s obviously a high consideration purchase at $2,195. Obviously, developers
When it was Alex Karp‘s turn to speak on Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call Monday evening, the CEO could barely contain his excitement. Grinning as he repeatedly pounded his pen on the table—and taking jabs at unnamed Silicon Valley AI competitors who “eat vegetables” and don’t support the U.S. military—a pugnacious Karp reveled in what he
Alex Karp’s crusade against frontier AI labs continues. During Palantir’s second-quarter earnings call on Monday, the CEO and cofounder reiterated his view that leading AI labs could absorb enterprises’ data, intellectual property, and expertise into their models and ultimately use that to compete with their customers. “They deserve to colonize your enterprise,” Karp said, characterizing
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises. The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism. “There are Marxist overtones and