By Stephanie Mehta August 07, 2023 Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you … Continue reading CEO pay is always under fire. Founder salaries? Not so much
Amazon is buying iRobot, the creator of the Roomba robot vacuum Jon Fingas @jonfingas Amazon just took a big step toward cornering the market for household robots. The company has reached a deal to acquire iRobot, the creator of Roomba robot vacuums. The purchase is worth $1.7 billion in cash and will … Continue reading Amazon’s iRobot purchase is under investigation by European authorities
Search Under Fire: Publishers Eye Coalition To Address Generative AI by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 28, 2023 Search engines are once again under fire from some of the top news publishers. The New York Times, News Corp, and IAC are among the companies that are discussing the formation of a coalition to address how generative … Continue reading Search Under Fire From Publishers Reportedly Forming Coalition To Address Generative AI
75% of CMOs feel under pressure to cut their technology spending, according to the latest Gartner CMO Spend survey. Kim Davis on May 22, 2023 Marketing budgets remain flat in 2023 having failed to climb back to pre-COVID levels. That’s one takeaway from Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey unveiled at the Gartner Marketing … Continue reading Marketers under pressure to cut martech spend
By Kim Kelly April 27, 2023 Every seven years, the commonwealth of Virginia is required to update its history and social studies education standards of learning. Once adopted, that framework sets expectations for what students will learn and be tested on during their K-12 tenure. The bureaucratic process is usually pretty quiet, but … Continue reading How labor history came under attack in Virginia schools
By Jeremy Caplan April 24, 2023 This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Inboxes refill relentlessly. Many of us spend more than 10 hours a week on email. Read on for ways to make your inbox a … Continue reading 9 tools to get your inbox under control
The Changes For B2B Companies Under California Law Perkins Cole, Friday, April 21, 2023 B2B marketers lost their exemption under California’s privacy law on January 1 of this year. Here’s an over of what this means to B2B brands and what their next steps should be towards compliance. The exemption for employment-related and … Continue reading The Changes For B2B Companies Under California Law
Concerns about GDPR compliance might extend to other AI solutions too. Kim Davis on April 3, 2023 On Friday, Italian regulators imposed a ban on generative AI tool ChatGPT with immediate effect while giving its creator, OpenAI, 20 days to address concerns about the way data is collected and processed under penalty of a fine … Continue reading ChatGPT under threat from European regulators
What marketers can learn from Under Armour’s roadmap for “NF3s.” Chris Wood on July 29, 2022 Under Armour’s Curry Brand sneakers are moving as fast in the metaverse as they do on the court. While NBA three-point king Stephen Curry extended his legacy with a fourth league title (and fourth Finals MVP) this spring, hoops … Continue reading How Under Armour’s Curry Brand shoes are taking off in the metaverse
By Shalene Gupta April 04, 2022 On average women still earn 82% of what men make in America. However, young women under 30 are doing somewhat better. Across America they earn 93% of what their male counterparts make, and according to a new study from Pew Research Center, women under the age of … Continue reading Women under 30 are earning more than men in these 16 cities
