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Women and people of color have left Mailchimp in droves in recent months. Those who spoke to Insider said Mailchimp has for years let toxic leaders thrive while failing to address inequalities. More than 30 current and former employees told Insider why they think Mailchimp is driving away diverse talent. On November 12, Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut sent a Slack message to his employees saying he "wanted to acknowledge the elephant in the room." "We've had more people than usual leave the company lately, including some great leaders," he sa...

Brookings used those projections to see how growth differs from the baseline in different states. Tourism-heavy states, like Nevada, see the biggest percent differences. DC and Massachusetts may experience smaller changes to their employment growth because of the pandemic than other states, based on a new Brookings report. Mark Muro, senior fellow and policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and research assistant Yang You looked at how employment may change across the US over 10 years. The analysis is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' recent projections that co...

From left: Rich Kleiman, Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala; Rudy Cline-Thomas, and Pau Gasol. Lachlan Cunningham/Getty; Steeter Lecka/Getty; Pau Gasol/Getty; Astrid Stawiarz/Getty; Claudio Lavenia/Getty; Skye Gould/Insider NBA stars have been investing in Silicon Valley startups since as far back as 2015. Now it's rapidly increasing: At least seven NBA players have backed startups in the past two months. Athletes and their business partners say it's about building generational wealth and giving more people of color a seat at the table.  Ja...

Samantha Lee/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Over the past few years, wealth manager to billionaires Iconiq Capital has built out a venture-capital investment arm, tying its fortunes ever more tightly to the technology industry that built its business. It's going very well. By the end of 2020, VC unit Iconiq Growth had invested more than $5.4 billion across dozens of startups, investments that were by then worth more than $23 billion on paper, accordin...

America is the world leader in locking up its citizens. The multi-billion dollar prison industry profits on the poor and incarcerated. Now they're coming for inmates' mail.  This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. The US incarcerates more of its citizens than any other country in the world. That's not just in raw numbers, but the most human beings per capita locked in cages.  America locks up a higher percentage and more in total of its people than authoritarian China, one of the world's worst human rights abusers with a population four times that of the U...