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Lindbrook Capital LLC Has $114000 Position in Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) – Defense World

Lindbrook Capital LLC lifted its stake in Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR Get Rating) by 42.3% in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 2,939 shares of the social networking companys stock after purchasing an additional 873 shares during the quarter. Lindbrook Capital LLCs holdings in Twitter were worth $114,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of TWTR. Amplius Wealth Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in Twitter during the 4th quarter worth $31,000. Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. grew its holdings in Twitter by 750.0% during the 1st quarter. Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd. now owns 748 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $29,000 after acquiring an additional 660 shares during the period. Glassman Wealth Services grew its holdings in Twitter by 47.1% during the 1st quarter. Glassman Wealth Services now owns 803 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 257 shares during the period. Concord Wealth Partners grew its holdings in Twitter by 238.1% during the 4th quarter. Concord Wealth Partners now owns 977 shares of the social networking companys stock worth $42,000 after acquiring an additional 688 shares during the period. Finally, Masso Torrence Wealth Management Inc. acquired a new stake in Twitter during the 4th quarter worth $42,000. 91.72% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Twitter stock opened at $38.23 on Monday. The firm has a market capitalization of $29.19 billion, a PE ratio of 166.22 and a beta of 0.59. The companys 50-day moving average is $41.42 and its 200-day moving average is $39.98. Twitter, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $31.30 and a fifty-two week high of $73.34. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a current ratio of 6.58 and a quick ratio of 6.58.

A number of analysts have commented on the stock. Argus lowered shares of Twitter from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report on Thursday, May 5th. Citigroup lifted their price target on shares of Twitter from $41.00 to $50.00 and gave the stock a neutral rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 20th. Loop Capital cut shares of Twitter from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research report on Monday, April 25th. Piper Sandler lifted their price target on shares of Twitter from $51.50 to $54.20 and gave the stock a neutral rating in a research report on Thursday, June 2nd. Finally, Wedbush reissued a neutral rating and set a $54.00 price target on shares of Twitter in a research report on Wednesday, June 29th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-four have assigned a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of Hold and an average price target of $48.91.

In related news, CAO Robert Kaiden sold 17,695 shares of the companys stock in a transaction dated Thursday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $50.50, for a total value of $893,597.50. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 173,721 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,772,910.50. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CFO Ned D. Segal sold 5,000 shares of the companys stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, April 12th. The shares were sold at an average price of $47.14, for a total transaction of $235,700.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 522,129 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,613,161.06. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last quarter, insiders sold 558,231 shares of company stock worth $21,390,076. 2.70% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

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Twitter, Inc operates as a platform for public self-expression and conversation in real-time. The company's primary product is Twitter, a platform that allows users to consume, create, distribute, and discover content. It also provides promoted products that enable advertisers to promote brands, products, and services, as well as enable advertisers to target an audience based on various factors, including who an account follows and actions taken on its platform, such as Tweets created and engagement with Tweets.

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Some companies with Austin operations will pay for abortion-related travel – Austin American-Statesman

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a number of corporations across the country announced plans to cover travel costs for employees seeking an abortion. Many of these companies are based in Austin or have significant operations in the metro area.

Under the states trigger law set to go into effect in the coming weeks, performing an abortion in Texas at any point in a pregnancy will become a felony.

Some companies made similar moves as laws restricting abortion were implemented in some states following a draft majority opinion being leaked in May that suggested justices would reverse Roe v. Wade.

Heres a look at of some of the companies with ties to Austin that expanded coverage:

More: Could abortion ban tarnish Texas' business-friendly image?

The technology company, which is formally headquartered in California but has most of its senior leadership and operations based in Austin, where itemploys about 2,400 people, said all AMD employees and dependents participating in its U.S. health care plan will receive travel and lodging reimbursement for covered medical services not able to be performed in their state of residence.

Providing equal access to quality health services for all AMDers, no matter where they live, has been a fundamental tenet of our benefits approach for many years, the company told the American-Statesman.

Reuters reported in May that the e-commerce giant, which has anestimated 11,000 Austin-area employees, will pay up to $4,000 every year for travel expenses for non-life threatening medical treatments including abortion.

This policy is available to U.S. employees warehouse and corporate workers and covered dependents enrolled in Premera or Aetna health plans, Reuters reported. It applies if an operation isnt available within 100 miles of an employees home and virtual care isnt an option.

The policy became retroactively available starting Jan. 1.

More: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, trigger law to ban abortion in Texas

This technology company confirmed to CNBC that employees can use company benefits to access medical care out-of-state. About 7,000 people work for Apple in the Austin metro area.

As weve said before, we support our employees rights to make their own decisions regarding their reproductive health. For more than a decade, Apples comprehensive benefits have allowed our employees to travel out-of-state for medical care if it is unavailable in their home state, a company spokesperson said to CNBC.

In an internal memo from September, Apple indicated that it was monitoring abortion laws in Texas, and said employees could get out-of-state medical care if it was unavailable in their home state using company benefits.

The Austin-based dating and social networking company has said it is implementing benefits to support reproductive health and family planning services for employees, including abortion care and related travel costs, as well as fertility treatment, egg-freezing, adoption and surrogacy.

Bumble said in a written statement that it made financial contributions to the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It also signed the Dont Ban Equality statement, which opposes restricting access to abortion-related services.

At Bumble, we believe in the right to choose and to exercise control over our bodies. The safety, privacy, and freedom of family planning are critical to equality for all and that includes covering access to abortion care, the companys statement said. We will continue to support our employees to get access to the health care services that they need.

The company created a fund in September to support reproductive rights and help people access abortions in Texas after a law went into effect prohibiting abortions at as early as six weeks.

More: Austin's Bumble creates relief fund to help those seeking abortions as restrictive Texas law takes hold

After the draft opinion was leaked in May, this independent game developers CEO Max Hoberman tweeted that the company will cover pre-approved, documented, reasonable out-of-pockets costs for employees to relocate to another state or province the company operates in if an employees state restricts access to what a majority of medical experts consider essential care, and this makes remaining there untenable for you and your family.

The company, which is headquartered in Austin, retweeted this statement after the June 24 ruling.

Technology giant Dell Technologies, which is headquartered in Round Rock and has about 13,000 employees in the Austin metro area, said its working with its health care plan administrators to make sure its health coverage gives employees access to all types of covered care, even when providers are not available in a team members home location.

Our priority remains on our team members health and well-being, the company said.

Online job-hunting service Indeed, which has about 2,800 workers in Austin, tweeted that employees on company insurance will continue to be reimbursed for travel expenses for covered medical procedures that are unavailable where they live.

Anything that limits the freedom of women and those who can become pregnant to make their own decisions about their health hurts them and society, the statement said. Limiting access to safe and affordable health care will hit hardest in marginalized communities, especially people of color and those in lower income brackets.

Indeed spokesperson Jyotsna Grover told the American-Statesman that employees dont need to indicate the type of medical procedure or disclose any details to their manager to claim this benefit.

Meta, the paretn company of Facebook and Instagram, which employs about 2,000 people in the Austin metro area, said it will offer employees travel expense reimbursements to the extent permitted by law to access out-of-state health care and reproductive services.

We are in the process of assessing how best to do so given the legal complexities involved, said spokesperson Andrea Beasley.

The investment company, which is the principal owner of the new Moody Center at the University of Texas at Austin, said in an Instagram post that it will cover any necessary travel costs for our female employees to access the care they need outside of their state.

More: Austin-based Tesla to cover travel costs for workers seeking abortions

Austin-based automaker Teslaannounced in May that it would cover travel costs for employees seeking out-of-state abortions.

In its 2021 Impact report it said it expanded its Safety Net program and health insurance offerings last year to include "travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services that are unavailable in their home state."

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The Global Data Center Automation Market size is expected to reach $18.3 billion by 2028, rising at a market growth of 20.1% CAGR during the forecast…

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A data center refers to the facility with a network of computers and storage systems that is used to process, organize, store, and distribute huge amounts of data for a company or organization.

New York, July 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Data Center Automation Market Size, Share & Industry Trends Analysis Report By Component, By Operating Environment, By End User, By Regional Outlook and Forecast, 2022 2028" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06289229/?utm_source=GNW Data center automation is the process of managing and automating a data centers procedures and workflow. It aids in the automation of data center operations, monitoring, administration, and maintenance duties that are now carried out by humans.

The data center team benefits from the prospects created by data center automation, which is currently in the markets stage of deployment strategy. The rise of social networking, cloud computing, analytics, and mobile computing is expected to boost the demand for data center automation. A significant amount of data created is unstructured, encompassing raw audio, files, or text from a variety of sources, including blogs and social media platforms.

Manual monitoring, remediation, and troubleshooting are too slow to be successful and can put businesses at risk due to the tremendous expansion in data and the speed at which businesses work today. Daily operations can be made autonomous through the process. In an ideal world, the data center provider would have API access to the network, allowing it to communicate with public clouds and migrate data and workloads from one to the other. Software solutions that provide centralized access to most or all data center resources are commonly used to deliver data center automation. This access allows for the automation of servers, storage, networks, and other data center administration duties in the past.

COVID-19 Impact Analysis

The covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly hastened the digital transformation process. The predominance of remote work will significantly speed up cloud capabilities, even after the pandemic. Companies would look to embark on a new normal, whether its more IT solutions for an agile workforce, larger data storage to fuel the spread of online commerce, or resilient IT systems to handle any future healthcare emergencies. Many businesses seeking to reduce the risk of disease transmission, whether on-premises or in collocation, have accelerated the deployment of data center automation as a result of COVID-19.

Market Growth Factors

Data Centers Are Being Used In A Variety Of Industries

With the passage of time, networks grow increasingly complex. A single data center can house hundreds of servers. Managing the entire network is thus extremely difficult. Repetitive jobs, on the other hand, can be handled by IT automation. As a result, the IT staff can devote their attention to a more vital responsibility. It will aid in the enhancement of the networks security. Enterprises benefit from data centers because companies have greater storage capacity, many advanced servers, and faster processing capabilities. Data centers are in higher demand than ever before, spanning all industries.

More Savings In Energy

As all firms aim to increase their entire energy efficiency, it makes this, an important factor for the data center automation market. Organizations favor data center automation because it lets them operate with optimum energy efficiency while minimizing their environmental impact. Demand for energy-efficient automated data centers is increasing as a result of the drive to minimize electricity costs. In data centers, storage systems and high-density blade servers provide more computation capacity per watt of energy spent.

Market Restraining Factors

Market Expansion Is Hampered By Data Privacy And Security Issues

The staff in data centers is often in charge of a highly complex environment that includes a diverse mix of programs, databases, and rival platforms. Managing this environment via scripting and platform/application-specific scheduling tools can be time-consuming and inefficient, posing task management issues. These disjointed tools necessitate constant upgrading in the face of change, resulting in higher operating expenses and lower employee productivity. Additionally, there is a data security issue that is impeding market expansion.

Components Outlook

Based on components, the data center automation market is segmented into solutions and services. The solution segment acquired the highest revenue share in the data center automation market in 2021. This is due to the growing need for server automation systems in data centers, which enable businesses or users to deploy, configure, patch, and maintain virtual, physical, and cloud servers rapidly and securely. Server automation ensures that pre-configured policies are followed and that IT productivity is increased by up to a significant rate due to an intelligent and tight loop for automated remediation. These factors would contribute to the growth of the data center automation market.

Operating Environment Outlook

By operating environment, the data center automation market is fragmented into Windows OS, Unix OS, Linux, and another Open-Source OS. The Linux and Other Open Source OS segment garnered a significant revenue share in the data center automation market in 2021. Linus Torvalds Linux kernel provides the foundation for a set of open-source Unix-like operating systems. The term "Linux distribution" refers to a grouping of Linux packages. Linux is an open-source and free operating system for computers (OS). An operating system is a software that controls the hardware and resources of a computer, such as the CPU, memory, and storage.

End- User Outlook

Based on the end-user, the data center automation market is bifurcated into BFSI, IT and telecom, Retail, Public sector and utilities, Energy, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Others. The BFSI segment acquired the maximum revenue share in the data center automation market in 2021. It is because BFSI companies are removing errors from human procedures and are focusing on enhancing coordination between IT security and IT operations. Data management can be used to do operations such as customer analysis, fraud detection, and other related duties. The financial sectors intense rivalry puts the burden on banks to be more efficient and responsive. Banks must also increase their resources and infrastructure, as well as improve their operating efficiency.

Regional Outlook

Region-wise, the data center automation market is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and LAMEA. North America emerged as the leading region in the data center automation market in 2021 with the largest revenue share. In terms of technology breakthroughs and adoption, North America is the most advanced region. It has a well-equipped infrastructure and the financial means to invest in data center automation software. In addition, using data center automation solutions improves efficiency and lowers costs for data center operations including incident and event management.

The major strategies followed by the market participants are Geographical Expansions. Based on the Analysis presented in the Cardinal matrix; Microsoft Corporation is the major forerunner in the Data Center Automation Market. Companies such as Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company are some of the key innovators in Data Center Automation Market.

The market research report covers the analysis of key stake holders of the market. Key companies profiled in the report include IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation, BMC Software, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Citrix Systems, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, VMware, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company, and Dell Technologies, Inc.

Recent strategies deployed in Data Center Automation Market

Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements:

2022-Feb: Hewlett Packard joined hands with Ayar Labs, the leader in chip-to-chip optical connectivity. This collaboration aimed to enter a new era of data center innovation by developing silicon photonics solutions based on optical I/O technology. The development of these technologies would aid future needs for artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and high-performance computing (HPC).

2021-Nov: Cisco joined hands with Nevion, a Sony Group Company and award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions. This collaboration aimed for customers to have full advantage of Ciscos Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) in conjunction with VideoIPath. VideoIPath integrated with NBM passive means customers can schedule connectivity, make informed routing decisions for media content, load balance, and manage redundancy for media flows. Under this collaboration, Nevions SDN control software VideoIPath and flagship orchestration assist Cisco Nexus 9000 Non-Blocking Multicast (NBM) in both active and passive mode, and multicast NATing.

2021-Jul: Hewlett Packard came into an agreement with HanmiGlobal, a construction project management firm. This memorandum aimed to promote data center services in South Korea. HanmiGlobal would give project management services, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise would provide the consultations and technologies required to create the centers.

Product Launches and Product Expansions:

2020-Oct: Cisco unveiled new Wide Area Networking (WAN) edge platform. This product launch aimed to aid customers fasten cloud adoption and provide secure and automated connectivity to applications over the data center, cloud, and edge. Through built-in analytics, the new Wide Area Networking (WAN) platform provides higher visibility into network or application problems and drives informed decisions to optimize the experience of users.

Geographical Expansions:

2022-Mar: Microsoft expanded its geographical footprints in India, and Hyderabad to establish the largest data center. This geographical expansion aimed to enter into the growing digital market in Hyderabad where many businesses are incorporating new-age technologies like AI and cloud. The Hyderabad data center region is another inclusion to the present network of three regions in India Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai, which have been operational for more than five years.

2022-Mar: Microsoft expanded its geographical footprints in Southern Finland to build a new data center. This geographical expansion aimed to assist customer requirements for high availability and resilience, the new data center region would feature Azure Availability Zones, unique physical locations equipped with networking, independent power, and cooling for additional tolerance to data center failures. This geographical expansion would join Microsofts worldwide network of cloud computing infrastructure of more than 60 regions, over 280,000 kilometers of terrestrial and subsea fiber, and over 190 edge sites.

2022-Jan: Oracle expanded its geographical footprints in South Africa with a new data center. This geographical expansion aimed to give local cloud services over Africa for the first time, joining the likes of Microsoft and Amazon in setting up facilities in the southernmost country on the continent.

2021-Mar: Cisco expanded its geographical footprints in Frankfurt, Germany, to build a new data center. This geographical expansion aimed to deliver customers using its Collaboration platform Webex in the European Union (EU) and Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Russia (EMEAR) region.

2020-Sep: Fujitsu expanded its geographical footprints in Australia with the expansion of its Western Sydney data center, to invest more in data centers and capabilities. This geographical expansion aimed to be part of a wider hyper-scale expansion plan, with further phases at the Western Sydney data center to include another 14,000 square meters and 50+ megawatts of increased power capacity, delivering an integrated total capacity of 90 megawatts at the Western Sydney data center campus.

2020-Jun: Oracle expanded its geographical footprints in Hyderabad with a second cloud region. This geographical expansion aimed to operate 36 second-generation Cloud regions. In addition, the expansion would enable the SMB customers to enhance technology and the center which would assist Indian firms in better addressing disaster recovery and compliance.

Scope of the Study

Market Segments covered in the Report:

By Component

Solution

Services

By Operating Environment

Windows OS

Unix OS

Linux & other Open Source OS

By Operating End User

BFSI

Retail

IT & Telecom

Public sector & utilities

Energy

Manufacturing

Healthcare

Others

By Geography

North America

o US

o Canada

o Mexico

o Rest of North America

Europe

o Germany

o UK

o France

o Russia

o Spain

o Italy

o Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

o China

o Japan

o India

o South Korea

o Singapore

o Malaysia

o Rest of Asia Pacific

LAMEA

o Brazil

o Argentina

o UAE

o Saudi Arabia

o South Africa

o Nigeria

o Rest of LAMEA

Companies Profiled

IBM Corporation

Oracle Corporation

BMC Software, Inc.

Fujitsu Limited

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

VMware, Inc.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company

Dell Technologies, Inc.

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China NFT Weekly: Dating in the Metaverse – Pandaily

Digestible news on the latest developments across the fields of Web3, NFTs, blockchain, and metaverse in China and beyond, compiled for you every week by Pandaily.

This week: metaverse dating app Soul eyes Hong Kong IPO, ByteDance continues metaverse investments with the acquisition of VR startup PoliQ, Chinese tech giants vow to end NFT speculation, and more.

Tencent-backed social media and dating app Soul is vying for an IPO in Hong Kong, after abruptly withdrawing its plan to raise $185 million for a listing on the Nasdaq last year. The Financial Times first reported this story.

READ MORE: Tencent-Backed Social Networking App Soul Pulls US IPO Plan

TikToks parent company, ByteDance, has acquired Chinese virtual reality (VR) startup PoliQ as part of its plan to expand its portfolio in metaverse hardware, content, software and platforms. SCMP first reported this story.

READ MORE: ByteDance Acquired Metaverse Social Startup PoliQ

Babel Finance is hiring US investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey, a specialist in restructuring and distressed mergers and acquisitions, a few weeks after suspending withdrawals amid liquidity issues. CoinDesk and BlockWorks first reported this story.

Chinese tech giants including Tencent Holdings and Ant Group have signed an agreement to stop the secondary trading of NFTs and self-regulate their activities in the market. Reuters and TechCrunch first reported this story.

The European Commission, EU lawmakers and member states secured an agreement on what is likely to be the first major regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry. Reuters, CNBC, and Cointelegraph first reported this story.

Meta has begun the roll out of an NFT feature on Facebook, just a week after its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, had announced the plan. TechCrunch and The Block first reported this story.

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The best time to start anew is now Crookston Times – Crookston Daily Times

Harvey Mackay

In 1914 Thomas Edisons factory in West Orange, N.J., was destroyed by a fire. Much of Edisons life work went up in flames. At the height of the fire, Edisons 24-year-old son, Charles, searched frantically for his father. He finally found him, calmly watching the fire, his face glowing in the reflection, his white hair blowing in the wind.

Charles heart ached for him. Edison was 67 at the time, and everything was gone. When he saw his son, he shouted, Charles, wheres your mother? Then he said, Find her. Bring her here. She will never see anything like this as long as she lives.

The next morning, Edison looked at the ruins and said, There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.

Leaders always look for the positive, even in the direst of circumstances. This story from Bits & Pieces about the inventor is a prime example.

As daunting as it may seem, you can start anew. There doesnt have to be a fire and it doesnt have to be the beginning of a new year. Think about what you really want. Some things are hard to let go of, to leave behind. But letting go need not be the end of the world. Think of it instead as an opportunity you cant pass up.

Author Marsha Petrie Sue said: Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.

The world is full of people who changed their lives or jumped to a new career and started anew.

Reid Hoffman began his professional life in academia, but soon caught the entrepreneurship bug. After working for Apple in the 90s and attempting to set up social networking for the company, he formed another social networking platform called SocialNet in 1997. After that company went bankrupt, he applied all his knowledge to what became the worlds premier platform for career networking: LinkedIn.

Brad Pitt at one time chauffeured strippers to and from bachelor parties. He also worked as a furniture mover and dressed up as a giant chicken mascot for the restaurant chain El Pollo Loco. He enrolled in acting classes with the dream of an acting career. Within seven months, he signed with an agent and today is one of the most famous and recognizable superstars in the world.

Pope Francis went from being a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub and working as a janitor during the day to becoming Pontiff (with a few stops in between.) He proved that taking big leaps, even unusual or almost impossible ones, are worth taking.

The husband-and-wife team of Tim and Nina Zagat behind the popular dining surveys of the same name were corporate lawyers when they first started printing their restaurant guides. The guides became so popular that the 51-yearold Tim left his job as corporate counsel for Gulf & Western Industries to manage the business in 1986. Nina left corporate law to work on the dining surveys as well.

Mick Jagger, lead singer for The Rolling Stones, worked at Bexley Psychiatric Hospital as a porter to pay for his education at the London School of Economics. He dreamed of being a journalist until he found joy in playing in a band.

Bernie Marcus was the chairman of Handy Dan Home Improvement Centers when he was fired in 1978. I learned in interviewing Bernie for my book We Got Fired! And Its the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us that the following year he and Arthur Blank decided to open a huge home-improvement store called Home Depot. Today, Home Depot is the largest home-improvement retailer with more than 2,300 stores.

Lady Gaga dropped out of New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts to pursue her music career. The major label Def Jam Recordings let her go after only three months, requiring her to start all over again. The rest is history.

Whitney Wolfe Herd was co-founder and vice president of marketing for the dating app company Tinder when she was forced to leave the company after filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against her boss. Herd moved on and created Bumble, which allows women to make the first move in matchmaking. Today Bumble has more than 35 million users.

From inauspicious beginnings to dreams come true, these stories are repeated every day all over the world. Theres no reason why the next big story cant be about you.

Mackays Moral:

Starting anew is the beginning of a new you.

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