Sally-Ann O'Dowd

The Rise of Filipino Virtual Assistants as Business Goes Remote Dave Davies, CEO of Beanstalk Internet Marketing, doesn’t usually hire the people he interviews on his Webcology podcast about the internet’s ecosystem, which runs on Webmasterradio.fm. But in October he and co-host Jim Hedger interviewed Robert Nickell, CEO of Dallas-based staffing company Rocket Station, on hiring Filipino virtual assistants.

Scott Galloway, the self-made millionaire who predicted Amazon would buy Whole Foods, argues in his third book that Twitter should develop a subscription model. “After months of public lobbying on this front by a brave (and handsome!) NYU Stern professor of marketing, Twitter finally announced in July 2020 that it would ‘explore’ a subscription model,” Galloway writes in Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, which came out Nov. 24. “The market loved it.

4ocean’s digital leads share the inside scoop on building a purpose-before-profit company. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, Americans will produce an extra 1 million tons of trash every single week, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That would be an additional 25 million tons of trash entering landfills and the ocean every holiday season, according to 4ocean, the company that uses the sale of its bracelets and other products to fund ocean cleanups.