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    Corey Goldman

    Corey Goldman

  • Spot Bitcoin ETFs are here and thriving. Is Ethereum next?

    As Bitcoin (BTC) celebrates its 15th birthday, it is revelling in a long-awaited gift: a bump-up in price and newfound liquidity, thanks in no small part to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's recent approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs. Spurred by a Grayscale court victory, The SEC's early January decision to grant 11 firms license to offer spot Bitcoin ETFs ushers in a new era for the oldest and most widely accepted digital asset by offering traditional retail investors easier access and giving it more mainstream credibility. With the price of Bitcoin jumping more than 50% in 2024 and with Ethereum (ETH) and other digital currencies climbing back to near-record highs, the question now is what's next for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. Is it a store of value, like gold? Is it a digital replacement to 'paper money,' or fiat currency? Is it a way to help investors diversify their investment portfolios? Or is it the framework for ledger technology that will continue to re-define how digital information is stored, encrypted and valued? In the short term, as well, other factors are driving the price of Bitcoin, including an expected “halving,” which cuts in half the amount of tokens that Bitcoin miners receive as reward for their work. The next halving, which happens once every four years is so, is due to occur in April. In this segment sponsored by Grayscale, Yahoo Finance Senior Contributor Corey Goldman sat down with a who's who of Bitcoin experts, including Grayscale CEO, Michael Sonnenshein, CoinDesk Indices Managing Director Andy Baehr, Matt Kohrs, host of the crypto-focused Matt Kohrs show, and TechCrunch Senior Cryptocurrency Reporter, Jacquelyn Melinek, to break it all down. For more expert insight and the latest market action, check out Yahoo Finance Live Monday through Friday. Editor's note: This article was written by Corey Goldman and Luke Brooks.

  • Wolfgang Puck’s family restaurant style continues to feed his global brand

    Wolfgang Puck, both the man and the brand, are a household name. The renowned restaurateur and celebrity chef is known for his effervescent personality and his intense passion for food. In this episode of Yahoo Finance’s Lead This Way, the Austrian-American food icon takes off his gloves and apron and provides an inside look at how his curated leadership style fuels his global empire of award-winning restaurants. In the restaurant business for over 50 years, and earning three coveted Michelin stars, Puck credits a diligent work ethic and his family style restaurant approach to hospitality as the keys to his success. “I think you have to give people a family environment. They want to feel they belong to some culture or some kind of a family. I always tell people we have a family restaurant." Puck takes Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Alexandra Canal on a tour of his New York City restaurant, CUT, treating her to signature dishes and providing the background of how he not only leads but teaches his staff his style of preparing and serving his gourmet recipes. Puck’s influences have certainly shaped how he leads, crediting his mother for her compassionate encouragement and citing a tough introduction to the restaurant business. As to how Puck mentors his staff, he says, “I want them to maybe feel the passion I have and maybe they learn something from that and they grow that way and learn more and become a good chef or own their own restaurant.” Puck began his career in some of France’s greatest restaurants, including the Michelin two-starred L’Oustau de Baumanière in Provence. After coming to the U.S. in the early 1970s, Puck gained prominence as chef of Ma Maison in Los Angeles before opening his first flagship restaurant, Spago, in 1982. Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants, cookbooks, catering service and other products are managed under his three business divisions: Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Catering, and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. Lead This Way is a new series that features big interviews with the business leaders shaping our world today. In these one-on-one conversations, we reveal how their approach to leadership helped them become Wall Street titans. For more on our Lead This Way Series, click here, and tune in to Yahoo Finance every Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.

  • AI will coexist with workers, help with 'upskilling': Workday CEO

    Carl Eschenbach sees AI as a tool that will help augment workers' abilities and help them navigate their career paths.

  • Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg sees AI as big part of network growth

    The need to move and process large amounts of data will be a focus for Verizon as it incorporates AI into its plans.

  • Dan Schulman: The CEO who made PayPal a household name

    Dan Schulman has led some of the most iconic companies in consumer finance, telecommunication, and e-commerce, including PayPal (PYPL), AT&T (T), Virgin Mobile, Priceline, and American Express (AXP), with game-changing innovation and bold risk taking. In this episode of Yahoo Finance’s Lead This Way, the former PayPal CEO and President shares the values that have driven his decision making as CEO of several of the world’s most iconic businesses. Recognizing that employees are essential to a company’s success, Schulman put in place an extensive program at PayPal that prioritized their financial wellness. Mentored through a tradition that business can be a force for good in society, Schulman has taken principled stands on critical social issues and has led with purpose, compassion and authenticity, while more than tripling the annual revenue of PayPal during his nine years as CEO. The outgoing PayPal CEO and President sat down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi at PayPal headquarters in New York City to share his vision for what makes a good leader. Central to his approach are an adherence to four key attributes: being humble, generous, authentic, and bold. Schulman sums it up by saying, “You have to have the confidence to make difficult decisions.” Schulman’s storied history as an executive began in the late 1990s as President of AT&T’s Consumer Division, which subsequently led to CEO positions at Priceline and Virgin Mobile. He was President of Enterprise Growth at American Express before taking the helm at PayPal, from which he resigned in September of 2023. Lead This Way is a new series that features big interviews with the business leaders shaping our world today. In these one-on-one conversations, we reveal how their approach to leadership helped them become Wall Street titans. For more on our Lead This Way Series, click here, and tune in to Yahoo Finance every Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.

  • Novo Nordisk: Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year

    A drug that literally makes people lose weight. A decade ago, that would have been considered a gimmick if not an outright hoax. Today, it is a reality that has not only changed the weight-loss game for good, but holds the potential to disrupt numerous sectors related to peoples’ physical shape and size — clothing manufacturers and food producers being but two examples. It’s not often that a drug comes along that changes the course of history. Yet that’s exactly what Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and its sister drug Wegovy have done - and why Novo Nordisk (NVO), in its 100th year of operation, is Yahoo Finance’s 2023 Company of the Year. Recent research from Goldman Sachs projects 15 million adults in the US will be on anti-obesity medications by 2030, representing 13% penetration in the US adult population — not including diabetic patients. That’s already translated into some weighty sales numbers for Novo, in turn sending its stock price up close to 50% through 2023, well ahead of the S&P 500’s 20% gain. To be sure, Ozempic is not necessarily the foolproof magic weight-loss elixir that some analysts and investors think and expect it to be. On the contrary, there is competition, knock-offs, and much more research and development ahead to truly make diabetes and by extension obesity a thing of the past.