- BusinessBusiness Insider•yesterday
Mark Zuckerberg shares the hiring rule he says separates good companies from great ones
Hiring Sheryl Sandberg was one of the smartest business decisions Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ever made. Sandberg joined in March 2008 at a time when Facebook was ready to scale and needed the acumen she developed in her role as the head of Google's advertisting arm as well as the chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. In an episode of LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman's podcast "Masters of Scale," Zuckerberg told Hoffman that his experience with Sandberg taught him that the "single most important thing" when it comes to scaling into a massively successful business is having founders surround themselves with the best people they can find.
- FinanceBloomberg•2 days ago
Supreme Court Unanimously Backs Debt Collector in Gorsuch Opinion
The U.S. Supreme Court limited a federal law that protects consumers from overaggressive debt collectors, as JusticeNeil Gorsuch wrote his first majority opinion. Writing for a unanimous court, Gorsuch said the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act doesn’t authorize lawsuits against companies that buy defaulted loans from another lender. The ruling is a victory for aSantander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. unit, blocking claims by people who defaulted on their auto loans.
- BusinessYahoo Finance•11 hours ago
Labor shortages? Blame corporate America
Kristin Charlton, a manufacturing salesperson in Eau Claire, Wis., hears from recruiters all the time, about jobs all over the country—usually with deep skepticism. “I hear about these labor shortages, and I think, that’s a crock,” she says.
