Seven years ago, nobody was talking about popcorn buckets as a business. Now AMC says they’ll bring in $100 million this year alone, nearly double what the theater chain made in 2023, the New York Times reports. Limited-edition, movie-themed buckets are the stars here, not the buttery popcorn. They can sell for as much as $70. Bill Howard’s company, Snap Creative, made two of this summer’s hottest popcorn buckets for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”: a $50 IMAX camera replica and a $70 Trojan horse. IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond was skeptical at first. He ordered just 2,500 units. They sold out…
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July has been a horrible month for the stock prices of Elon Musk’s two publicly traded companies: Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) and SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX). As of the close of markets yesterday, the two companies have seen their stock prices decline by roughly 24% and 31%, respectively, since June 30. Here’s what you need to know. Tesla stock got hammered yesterday Let’s start with Tesla, Inc. While the electric vehicle company has seen its stock price decline for most of July, the drop had been subtle, and similar to what most major tech stocks had seen across the month. However, then…
Theme songs not only quickly establish the mood and tone of your favorite movies and TV shows but also reveal clues about settings. If National Tequila Day had an official theme song, “Tequila” by the Champs would be an excellent choice. Today (Friday, July 24) we celebrate the hard liquor and the cocktails it adds its flavors to. Let’s take a deeper look behind the booze, the song, and the deals to help you make the most of your after-work happy hour. A brief history of Tequila One of the precursors of tequila dates back to the Aztecs. Pulque was…
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Last week, I attended an Nvidia media event that included a field trip to an undisclosed location in Silicon Valley—a building without any identifying signage. Though hundreds of racked GPUs were chugging away at real AI tasks inside, Nvidia calls the facility an “engineering superlab” rather than a data center. Among the AI being crunched during our visit: a test version of OpenAI’s GPT model optimized for Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin platform, named after the legendary astronomer. For show-and-tell purposes, several powerful computers were on display in the building’s lobby.…
When the U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12 to immediately prevent all foreign nationals from using the artificial intelligence company’s two most advanced large language models, Anthropic disabled its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models within hours, making them inaccessible to everyone. The company had little choice. The letter, citing national security concerns, barred access by all foreign nationals, including Anthropic’s own noncitizen employees. With no way to immediately collect and validate each and every user’s nationality, including those who were outside the country, the company shut the models off for everyone. The Commerce Department agreed to…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The “feature trap” is the false belief that the answer to every business problem is a new button. In reality, every new feature introduces friction. The worst part is — it makes the onboarding process complicated for new users. Instead of making your product better, you are just making it harder to use. If you want to save your product, conduct a feature audit first and look at your data with honesty. Don’t just ask your users what they want; instead, look at what they actually do. Track their behavior.…
QUESTION: You mentioned that the S&L Crisis of the 1980s was caused by the Democrats winning Congress in 1984 and changing the tax code on commercial real estate. Could you explain that connection? Was the banking and real estate crisis primarily driven by Democratic policies at that time? DD ANSWER: Oh, most definitely. But there were TWO insolvency waves. Because of the OPEC oil shock of the ’70s, that set in motion a cost-push inflation, which Paul Volker raised interest rates to 14% trying to reverse an inflation that had NOTHING to do with DEMAND. Drastically higher interest rates resulted…
Cinnamon is having a moment, and Cinnabon might be the biggest beneficiary. More chefs are sprinkling on the spice’s cozy, nostalgic appeal than in years past, according to Restaurant Business, and Cinnabon has ridden that wave to its best growth year in company history. The chain opened over 300 new locations in 2025, more than almost every other fast-food brand except Wingstop, QSR reports. Only Wingstop opened more, with 382 net new stores. But it wasn’t just the cinnamon rolls doing the heavy lifting. Cinnabon has been quietly building out its drink menu, rolling Seattle’s Best coffee into stores nationwide…
There was a time when America’s industrial titans built railroads, steel mills, and oil companies. Today, influence is measured in data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, media, and information. Few families illustrate that transformation better than the Ellisons. Larry Ellison built Oracle from a small software company into one of the world’s largest technology firms. His background and rags-to-riches story are quite interesting. Today Oracle is one of the dominant providers of enterprise databases and cloud infrastructure, serving governments, financial institutions, healthcare providers, defense contractors, and many of the world’s largest corporations. Oracle’s software touches enormous portions of the global economy.…
Robert Irvine does not do “small.” He is a celebrity chef, British Royal Navy veteran, bestselling author, relentless road warrior and the driving force behind the Robert Irvine Foundation, which supports service members, veterans, first responders and their families. His latest project is a six‑month national tour with rock band O.A.R., using their 30th anniversary tour to raise money and awareness for veterans with special donation activations at every stop. Last time I chatted with Robert, it was live on stage at a How Success Happens recording in New York City last summer. It was great to reconnect and dig…