A Edgecliffe-Johnson
@Edgecliffe
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Semafor's CEO Editor. Formerly @FT. Writing in a personal (but not too personal) capacity. https://t.co/IlVpVlQ8ES
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Joined February 2009
NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway
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.@brendanruberry & @maxwelltani have solved a minor transatlantic media mystery and located Bill DeBlasio, who stresses that he is not an imposter, but rather a Long Island man named Bill DeBlasio
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How Sam’s Club became the ‘Netflix of shopping’. Via The CEO Signal from @semafor
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CEO Chris Nicholas aims to double sales at the Walmart unit with a focus on driving “disruptive value.”
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"I think that the aftermath of the tariffs has been nowhere near as bad as people predicted. In fact, the way it's played out has been a lot closer to how I predicted," @SteveMiran tells @lizrhoffman. "The burden of proof in this case, I think, is on the data, and I think that
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"If we miss this opportunity, Syria is gone," Minister of Economy and Industry Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar tells @prashantrao. "It will be diced and sliced, and we are cognizant of that." "Please give us the time. We are emerging from scratch, from ruins, from wreckage."
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"I think we should still be worried about inflation," Goldman Sachs President John Waldron tells @lizrhoffman. "I do think that what's going on is companies are sacrificing margin." "Either tariffs come down, which is probably not likely, or you're going to start to see people
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Over the past year, Trump crypto businesses have reaped over $1 billion in profit. https://t.co/HxOQN0UNPY -@FT
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[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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"MAHA has been a good thing for animal agriculture," @Elanco CEO @JeffSimmons2050 tells @Edgecliffe. "There's no question, there's a real opportunity for American agriculture ... Taste, cost, nutrition win, and we just want to make sure that MAHA stays focused on that. And
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PBS cuts "are not an existential threat to Sesame from a funding standpoint," @SesameWorkshop CEO @SherrieWestin tells @Edgecliffe. "But it's so painful because we pride ourselves on being able to reach all children, regardless of whether their family has the ability to afford
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"We have become wholeheartedly dependent on a supply chain that runs through China. And it has become a leverage point," @USARareEarth CEO Barbara Humpton tells @Edgecliffe. "Our job now is to eliminate that single point of failure, take this off the geopolitical leverage
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“The fact that the US government will get involved… that allows others to say, ‘Yeah, this is worthy of investment,’” USA Rare Earth CEO Barbara Humpton on the Trump administration's mining stakes, via @semafor's World Economy Summit. https://t.co/G3901etFy0
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John Hancock plans to offer early cancer detection tests to its retirement customers, CEO Brooks Tingle tells @semafor’s World Economy Summit
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The life insurer extends plan to encourage healthy behavior as it warns that Americans are unprepared for lengthening lifespans.
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"There's this perverse thing in our society today where oftentimes the least healthy food is the cheapest," John Hancock CEO Brooks Tingle tells @Edgecliffe. "I've encouraged for years that a SNAP dollar spent on a fresh fruit or vegetable should only count as 50 cents."
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“On the reefs of roast beef and apple pie….[in the USA] socialistic utopias of every sort are sent to their doom.” Must-read on Zohran Mamdani & socialism with American characteristics @Jderbyshire
https://t.co/8vRQ1jdzmH via @ft
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Tens of thousands of volunteers mobilised by the Democratic Socialists of America are working to elect a torchbearer for a beleaguered US left
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$CRH moved its primary listing from London to New York two years ago. CEO Jim Mintern tells me as many as 10 other London-listed companies have called him in the past nine months alone to ask how it’s done. Via The CEO Signal, from @semafor
https://t.co/tyiq2jH1OD
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The building materials group’s stock more than doubled since its relisting. Other companies want to know how it’s done.
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I met @Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol shortly before this week’s announcement of more cuts to stores and head office jobs. Here's how he explains his “Back to Starbucks” plan — and why you might soon find more banana flavours on the $SBUX menu. Via @semafor
https://t.co/jvj5fI8EV6
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Clarity, cuts, and high expectations are shaping one of corporate America’s highest-profile turnarounds.
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“There’s not much you can do to the culture of a turtle to make it go faster. You need to have the DNA of a rabbit, and then you can make the rabbit move faster.” Bloom Energy’s KR Sridhar, via @semafor
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The fuel cell group’s founder says companies need “the DNA of a rabbit” to move at AI speed, because “there’s not much you can do to the culture of a turtle to make it go faster.”
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“You don’t delegate the revolution.” Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson is on a mission to turn “a French dinosaur” into an R&D-driven immunology leader. Here’s how he’s doing it, and why he thinks that CEOs who hand AI execution to CDOs are idiots. @semafor
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Executives look to beef up building security after Manhattan shooting - with @rogoswami
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C-suites were already on edge after an insurance executive was assassinated last year, and now have to grapple with panicked employees and security overhauls.
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