The image of hoodie-wearing college students launching billion-dollar businesses from their dorm rooms has become an entrepreneurship cliché. And while leaders say there are advantages to being a young founder—having more energy and fewer responsibilities—there are also perks to starting a business later in life. Actress Jennifer Garner became a cofounder of $732 million business
As a baseball player coming up in the late 1970s, Orel Hershiser was never seen as a red-hot prospect.No scouts made the trek to Bowling Green State University in Ohio to check out his arm. As Hershiser describes his entrée into Major League Baseball, “I was a 17th-round draft pick that signed for a new
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is working to get her next project, “The Hunted,” out of late-stage production. But the “Bound” and “Matrix” director says nobody in Hollywood wants to finance the thriller, which is budgeted at around $10 million, because of its trans representation. “People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because
Yiyang Zhuge learned last week that when you go extremely viral, the people you have been following for years suddenly start following you back. Zhuge logged onto X and found that a string of famous professors and scholars were in her list of new followers. A PhD candidate in political philosophy at Boston College, Zhuge
Variety has announced presenters for its annual Power of Young Hollywood, this year presented by Disney+, taking place on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles. Presenting Tate McRae with the Triple Threat Award will be Madison Beer, and presenting Sombr with the Songwriter of the Year award is Lindsey Buckingham. Tyriq Withers will receive the New
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman made a surprise appearance at a screening of “Practical Magic” on Saturday night in L.A. Attendees came to the place, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, for magic — and many, many Midnight Margaritas — but few expected an appearance by the Owens sisters themselves to introduce the 1998 cult classic. “Thank