MarkFord
Remote Work Is Dead… at Zoom?
Most of the businesses I work with are making efforts to get employees back to work. Zoom meetings are useful and efficient, the CEOs say, but there is something missing when employees work remotely all the time.
I thought it was interesting that senior executives at Zoom are feeling the same way. Recently, the company announced that employees who live within 50 miles of one of their offices are expected to be there at least in person 2.5 days a week.
Bull in a China Shop
In May, Binance reportedly facilitated $90 billion of crypto trading in China, where the act was, uh, made illegal in 2021. Meanwhile, US regulators are weighing fraud charges against the exchange, but worry about the effect on consumers. Click here.
Beef
With a combined subscriber list of 289 million and total views of more than 45 billion, James Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is YouTube’s biggest creator.
He’s in the news because he’s suing ghost kitchen company Virtual Dining Concepts, alleging it served gross food at his MrBeast Burgers restaurants. VDC claims MrBeast is bullying them because he wanted more money out of the partnership.
That’s the “news.” But, having never heard of MrBeast or Jim Donaldson, I am fixated on learning how, at age 25, he created the biggest by far social media following.
This is about the lawsuit.
And this is about the man.
Keeping It Fresh
In a bid to eat up more of the $1.5 trillion US grocery market, Amazon is revamping its grocery plans, opening up fresh food delivery to non-Primers and refreshing its arsenal of brick-and-mortar Fresh grocery stores. Click here.