Author: Daniel snow

Jay Chaudhry’s career has seen a myriad successes.  The 66-year-old co-founded his first company, SecureIT, in 1996 with his wife. That sold in 1998 for $70 million in an all-stock deal. He then founded three other companies, all of which were acquired: AirDefense, CipherTrust and CoreHarbor.He is now CEO of Zscaler, a cybersecurity company he founded in 2008. Chaudhry has an estimated net worth of nearly $17 billion, according to Forbes.Chaudhry credits his ascent in part to the teams he’s built. “Nothing significant gets done by an individual person,” he says. But, ultimately, “the most important person for my success,”…

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Wall Street is heading into a holiday-shortened week of trading — but there’s unlikely to be a shortage of news for investors to process thanks to heightened geopolitical tensions and a pivotal Federal Reserve meeting. Here are the four big things we’re watching in the week ahead. 1. Geopolitics. The fallout of the Israel-Iran attacks figure to shape global financial markets in the coming days and potentially much longer depending on where the tense situation goes from here. The developing conflict underscores that geopolitics are firmly on our radar, beyond just trade talks. Stocks fell and oil prices surged Friday…

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Law enforcement officers with the River Valley Tactical Team, prepare to visit the home of Vance Luther Boelter, who officials describe as a person of interest in the killing of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of Sen. John Hoffman, near Green Isle, Minn., Saturday, June 14, 2025.Anthony Souffle | Star Tribune via APA manhunt continues on Sunday after a gunman impersonated a police officer early Saturday morning and killed Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in what was called a “politically motivated assassination.”The suspect, who authorities identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter,…

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Minnesota House Democratic Caucus Leader Melissa Hortman speaks with reporters at the state Capitol in St. Paul on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.Sen. Amy Klobuchar remembered fellow Minnesota Democrat Mellissa Hortman, who was fatally shot in her home early Saturday morning alongside her husband, Mark, as a “true public servant.””I just wish everyone in the world, the political world, knew this woman like we know her in Minnesota, loved by Democrats and Republicans,” Klobuchar said of Hortman, who was a member of the Minnesota House since 2005.”We started out together in politics, moms with young kids, and somehow she was able…

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Customers order at a Starbucks in Manhattan Beach, California, on July 19, 2024.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAs Starbucks aims to bring back customers and assuage investors with its turnaround strategy, it is also winning over its store managers with promises to add more seating inside cafes and promote internally.Since CEO Brian Niccol’s first week at the company, he’s been pledging to bring the company “back to Starbucks” to lift sluggish sales. That goal was in full view at the company’s Leadership Experience, a three-day event in Las Vegas for more than 14,000 store leaders this week.Starbucks unveiled a…

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