Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says writers, actors strikes need to end as media industry is in a transitional moment The media industry needs to do everything it can to end the writers and actors strike, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Wednesday.

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Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand CEO Pay Elon Musk loves nothing more than hopping on the social network he’s working to destroy and posting weird, uninformed nonsense — the vaguer the better, lest he let slip too much and reveal that the emperor is in fact not only naked, but dumb as rocks. It’s a delicate tightrope performance, one that Musk is deeply bad… Read more…

Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25 Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google usually celebrates its birthday on September 27th for no particularly obvious reason, but for its 25th anniversary, the company’s getting out ahead — with CEO Sundar Pichai “kicking off celebrations” with a 2,400-word public memo reflecting on where the company’s been. There’s very little in here that wi…

ADL CEO says Elon Musk’s insinuation to sue over defamation is merely a ‘threat of a frivolous lawsuit’ Greenblatt dismissed allegations Musk made over the Labor Day weekend, in which he claimed the ADL was “trying to kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Ring’s former CEO is rebranding Latch to Door.com Image: LatchLatch, the commercial access company run by the founder of Ring, is expanding beyond smart locks. The company announced today that it’s rebranding to Door.com with the goal of offering an overarching platform that gives independent service workers, like drivers, housekeepers, and dog walkers, a platform to grow their businesses. Aft…

SentinelOne CEO says the cybersecurity company is not for sale SentinelOne wants to keep being a publicly traded company after going public in 2021, although it has underperformed some of its peers this year.

Rivian CEO Mocks People Who Buy Gas Cars The EV transition is happening, whether you like it or not. It won’t be an overnight process — we keep our cars around for 12.5 years on average, and it’ll take longer than that to entirely cycle out America’s internal combustion fleet — but Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe sees that change coming sooner rather than later. In… Read more…

CNN names former New York Times CEO Mark Thompson as its chief Warner Bros. Discovery has appointed Mark Thompson chairman and CEO of CNN a few short months after Chris Licht’s ouster.

Fanatics-backed vintage sports brand Mitchell & Ness hires Nike executive as CEO With Fanatics, Jay-Z and Lebron James as backers, Mitchell & Ness hires a Nike and Jordan Brand executive as CEO to grow its vintage sports apparel lines.

Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ Illustration by Laura Normand / The VergeAmazon CEO Andy Jassy has a message to employees who don’t want to return to the office: “It’s not going to work out for you.” That’s according to a report from Insider, which says Jassy made that statement during a meeting earlier this month. While Amazon ordered its employees to return to the office for…

The RealReal’s CEO on Turning the Luxury Resale Company Around The one-time Wall Street darling has lost 92 percent of its stock value since its I.P.O. Can the former tire and power tool executive reclaim the luxury goods site’s luster?

Prime Trust Lost $8M in Doomed Terra Stablecoin Investment, CEO Says A separate 2021 wallet bungle by the crypto custodian, taken into receivership in July, cost it $76 million, the CEO said in a court filing.

Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa is coming to the Code Conference Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa. | Image: Monarch TractorPraveen Penmetsa is bringing the AI craze to farms. His company, Monarch Tractor, makes an electric tractor powered by an Nvidia AI platform that allows the vehicle to drive itself through farm fields and work autonomously. The first machines rolled out of the company’s Livermore, Cal…

Suggestions for tools to manage CEO’s account on LinkedIn? Hi, all. I’m looking into some tools to manage my company’s CEO’s LinkedIn profile without simply password sharing. We currently have Hootsuite, which could be helpful for publishing content. However, I can’t seem to figure out if we are able to reshare our Company’s posts with the CEO’s profile from Hootsuite, if that makes sense. Any insight…

Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the internet — can CEO Perkins Miller keep them happy? Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The VergeToday, I’m talking with Perkins Miller. He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney and Taylor Swift to The Matrix and Grand Theft Auto as well as several publications like TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot. It’s a big, complicated media company in a big, complica…

IBM CEO says AI will impact white-collar jobs first, but could help workers instead of displacing them As working age populations decline, Krishna said AI presents one of the only solutions to addressing potential productivity shortfalls.

Dodge CEO Says ‘Cool And Fun’ EV Muscle Cars Are Coming Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 17, 2023 and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

AMD CEO Lisa Su is coming to the Code Conference AMD CEO Lisa Su | Photo: AMDAMD CEO Lisa Su is coming to the Code Conference next month to talk AI, supply chains, the PC market, and more with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. Su has already transformed AMD once. When Su was named CEO of the chipmaker in 2014, AMD was struggling. The company was losing money, and its main moneymaker — des…