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Under the program, artists and creatives received €325 — or about $370 — a week to spend however they want.

Varun Agarwal studied at the University of Minnesota, where few people would take the plunge into entrepreneurship, he says. For someone who wanted to work in finance, investment banking was the safer and prestigious path to take. Agarwal ended up working as an investment banker for three years, first at Piper Sandler and then at J.P. Morgan. Incidentally, both roles were based in the Bay Area, which helped expose him to the startup culture in Silicon Valley. Seeing 21-year-olds start companies and raise millions of dollars was exhilarating, he says. That's when Agarwal started speaking to founders and investors to map out the next steps of his career. One day, while scrolling through LinkedIn, he came across a post from Ori Eldarov, the founder of the AI native investment bank, OffDeal. Read more about how he made the switch to working at an AI investment bank on Business Insider: https://lnkd.in/epaAN8aZ (Credit: Varun Agarwal) #ai #banking #startup

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"That one piece of advice I got from my boyfriend's mom all those years ago ultimately gave me the gift of a life that I feel has been full of actual living."

Before kids, I could pour 80 hours a week into the business — staying up late, working weekends, and constantly glued to my laptop. As a parent, that's just not possible.

"I struggled with the fact that my life was still intertwined with my mom's at a time I thought I would otherwise be independent."

Hannah Neeleman, better known as Ballerina Farm, took Business Insider behind the scenes of a day in her homegrown, organically sourced life. Read more in the Saturday edition of Business Insider Today #ballerina #farm #health #food

Once employees "get a taste of" what AI can do, that's when companies really start to see the value, said Boston Consulting Group Global Chief AI Ethics Officer Steven Mills.

For Business Insider's 2025 rising Wall Street stars, early morning sweat sessions and time with family are key to staying balanced.

"Practice brainstorming multiple answers to the same problem, even the ones that seem impractical at first," says Stanford professor Jure Leskovec.