Alternative data blew up thanks to desperate hedge funds looking to get an edge. Next year, the booming space could attract more mainstream investors.

Bradley Saacks | It won't just be hedge funds scouring data like foot traffic and credit-card data, one platform thinks, and that could erode the data's usefulness.

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Here's the pitch deck e-commerce startup Honey used to raise early funding a few years before PayPal acquired it for $4 billion in cash

Melia Russell | Honey, which PayPal just bought for $4 billion, faced rejection from investors for 2 years before raising a seed round.

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The best way to teach yourself corporate finance fast, according to a former McKinsey consultant who did it on his own time

Robin Madell | "I had absolutely zero business/finance background before McKinsey; [I was a] history major [and] law student," said finance strategist Andrew Chen.

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The battle to recognize machines as 'inventors' alongside humans just hit the Middle East and Asia

Martin Coulter | The team behind the 'AI inventor' is filing applications around the world. The US and the UK are working out how to respond to them.

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A Microsoft investor asked why Satya Nadella's salary is 249 times more than the median employee's. Here's what Microsoft's chairman said.

Ashley Stewart | Microsoft Chairman John Thompson pointed to the company's performance since Nadella took over and a cultural shift.

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Life after WeWork: Laid-off employees take their next steps via Google docs, viral LinkedIn posts, and recruiting events hosted by ex-colleagues

Meghan Morris | A former WeWorker's coworking company hosted a speed-networking event on Wednesday, one of several efforts to help staff land on their feet.

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Here's the presentation Google gives employees on how to spot unconscious bias at work

Richard Feloni,Sherin Shibu | More than half of Google's roughly 60,000 employees have voluntarily gone through this training. Here's the training slide deck.

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'A lot of people don't need to pay back their debt': A student-loan expert explains why popular repayment advice is false — and shares how to save up to 50% on interest payments

Christopher Competiello | Travis Hornsby, the founder and CEO of Student Loan Planner, views student-loan repayment differently than most.

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In leaked recording of internal meeting, Jeff Bezos and Amazon's top execs respond to employee questions about some of the company's biggest challenges

Eugene Kim | In an all-hands meeting last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his top executives answered a list of employee questions about the company.

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