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The iTunes Store reshaped Apple and the music industry, laying the groundwork for its booming services business. Loading audio narration… Eddy Cue, the senior vice president of services at Apple, joined daily tech talk show TBPN on Wednesday to look back on his 38 years at the company. Cue oversees Apple’s services, including its subscription-based platforms Apple Music and Apple TV, among others. Before there was Apple Music, there was the iTunes Store, which started out selling songs and albums. Cue said it was a real game changer for Apple when it launched in 2003.”It truly revolutionized music, and it…

For consulting firms, shredding season is coming: It’s time to take AI and cut the fat. Loading audio narration… As companies embed AI agents into their workflows, consultants are exploring how it can be used to flatten management layers — helping leaders oversee increasingly wider teams.McKinsey & Company senior partner Alexis Krivkovich said there’s “real hope” that AI can help companies streamline their organizational structures during a recent episode of “The McKinsey Podcast.”AI has equipped leaders with “more of a superhuman capacity to manage across bigger scopes, which would allow companies to flatten their structure and get faster in the…

A former Amazon vice president says getting a bad manager removed is rarely as simple as escalating complaints — and doing so the wrong way can backfire. Loading audio narration… Speaking on “The Peterman Pod,” Ethan Evans said employees often assume that raising concerns to their boss’s manager will automatically trigger action. In reality, he said, higher-ups face incentives to dismiss or downplay those complaints.”If you come to me with a weakness in one of my employees,” Evans said, there’s a “subconsciously” calculated choice: assume the report is overly sensitive, or accept it and create a much bigger problem. If…

Slide decks continue to get a bad rap — and another company is doing away with them. Loading audio narration… On an episode of Sequoia’s “Long Strange Trip” podcast released on Thursday, Block CEO Jack Dorsey said that employees at his fintech company no longer bring slide decks to meetings.”Just two months ago every meeting that we would have, you see a presentation or a Google Doc and we go through it,” Dorsey said. “Now everyone is bringing a prototype that they built, which is pretty amazing.”Dorsey, who cofounded Block in 2009, said the prototypes — built on either simulated or…

Longevity influencer Bryan Johnson, founder of Immortals, and horror movie producer Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse, run very different businesses. Loading audio narration… But both are prime examples of leaders who are rethinking strategies and refocusing careers as AI brings wave after wave of change to their industries.And both will be on stage, interviewed by Business Insider journalists, at BI’s first flagship event in San Francisco on April 14.We know from our reporting that navigating the changes tied to AI and the industry shifts it’s driving isn’t easy. The Long Play is a chance to explore what it…

Get ready for a bumper crop of TBPN-style shows. Loading audio narration… OpenAI scooped up the livestream talk-show startup on Thursday for an undisclosed sum.”It is a wild move,” said Jack Westerkamp, cohost of the TBPN-esque show “Breaking and Entering,” which covers the advertising and marketing industries. The deal showcases the “sheer influence” TBPN has had on the tech industry, he added.It also showed why there’s already been a handful of shows, including “Breaking and Entering,” inspired by TBPN.TBPN has popularized — or rather, re-popularized — the live talk show. The show’s split-screen format showcases mic’d-up hosts John Coogan and…

Last week, OpenAI was dumping side quests: Out went Sora, its once-hyped video app. Plans to launch erotic chats were mothballed. Loading audio narration… That was then. This week, OpenAI has become a media company, by buying TBPN, the very buzzy tech-business internet talk show with a small but influential audience.Nope, not an April Fool’s joke. Though that reaction to the news was widespread and understandable.”April Fools was yesterday,” TBPN cofounder and cohost John Coogan told the thousands of viewers who tuned in to TBPN’s live show, minutes after the acquisition was announced. “This is real. This is a very…

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OpenAI has acquired popular tech industry talk show TBPN — Technology Business Programming Network — making this the AI giant’s first acquisition of a media company. The show will report to OpenAI’s chief political operative, Chris Lehane. TBPN, hosted by former tech founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, is a daily live show that airs on YouTube and X for three hours, focusing on tech, business, AI, and defense. The show has gained a cult following in Silicon Valley, a safe space where industry power players can speak candidly and be questioned by fellow insiders. The show has a reputation…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the 165,000-student University of Wisconsin system is fighting attempts by the board of regents to force him to retire or face being fired. The surprise effort to remove Jay Rothman from the post he has held since 2022 was detailed in letters Rothman sent to regents over the past week that were obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.Here is what to know about the situation:What’s the president’s job?The president of the Universities of Wisconsin oversees the entire university system, which includes the flagship Madison campus, 12 other universities and several other branch campuses.The…