Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short OpenAI makes money from ChatGPT subscriptions (consumer, team and enterprise plans), usage-based API fees paid by developers and companies, and, since early 2026, advertising and commerce on the free tiers of ChatGPT. Its CFO, Sarah Friar, wrote in January 2026 that annualized revenue ran at more […]
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Verizon had about 89,900 employees (full-time equivalent) at 31 December 2025, down from about 99,600 a year earlier and about 105,400 at the end of 2023, according to its 10-Ks.
Qualcomm says it had about 52,000 full-time, part-time and temporary workers at 28 September 2025, up from about 49,000 a year earlier, per its fiscal 2025 10-K. Headcount has risen from about 45,000 in fiscal 2021, with a dip to 49,000 in fiscal 2024.
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short ServiceNow makes almost all its money from subscriptions to its cloud-based ServiceNow AI Platform, sold mainly to large enterprises and governments on contracts that typically run three years. In 2025, subscriptions brought in $12,883 million of $13,278 million total revenue, about 97%; professional services and other
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Affirm had 2,358 employees at 30 June 2026, up from 2,206 a year earlier but below the 2,552 it had in 2022, according to its 10-Ks. Revenue rose 32% to $4.26 billion in fiscal 2026 (year to 30 June 2026), which works out to about $1.81 million of revenue per employee by FourWeekMBA’s calculation.
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short SpaceX makes money in three segments: Space (paid launches and government development contracts), Connectivity (Starlink subscriptions, terminals, enterprise and government service) and Super Intelligence (SI), formerly the AI segment, which holds xAI’s Grok, the X platform, Cursor and AI cloud services. In the three months to
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Cash App brought in $15.43 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025 (year to 31 December 2025), down 5% from $16.25 billion in 2024, Block’s 10-K says. The fall came from bitcoin sales, which made up 54% of Cash App revenue but only 6% of its gross profit.
Opendoor says revenue fell to $4.37 billion in fiscal 2025, down 15% from $5.15 billion in 2024, as it sold 11,791 homes against 13,593. That is far below the $15.57 billion peak of 2022. Almost all revenue comes from selling homes; the company reports one segment and calls other revenue insignificant.
Inditex made €6.22 billion of net profit in fiscal 2025 (year to 31 January 2026), up from €5.88 billion, according to its annual report. Operating profit (EBIT) was €8.00 billion on net sales of €39.9 billion. Net profit has nearly doubled from €3.25 billion in fiscal 2021.
Best Buy had 1,068 stores at the end of fiscal 2026 (31 January 2026), down from 1,117 a year earlier and 1,144 at the end of fiscal 2022, its 10-K shows. 926 are in the U.S., 886 of them Best Buy-branded, and 142 in Canada. The stores served a business with revenue of $41.7 billion in fiscal 2026.
Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short A zero-sum game is a situation in which one player can only be made better off by making another player worse off: the gains and losses of all players add up to zero. The idea comes from mathematical game theory, where John von Neumann proved his
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Best Buy employed about 82,000 people in the U.S. and Canada at the end of fiscal 2026 (31 January 2026), down from about 105,000 four years earlier, its 10-Ks show. On revenue of $41.7 billion that is roughly $508,000 of revenue per employee by FourWeekMBA’s calculation, up from about $489,000 in fiscal 2025.
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Meta reported $201.0 billion of revenue for fiscal 2025 (year to 31 December 2025), up 22%, according to its 10-K; advertising brought in $196.2 billion, about 98% of it. Revenue has kept climbing in 2026: $56.3 billion in the first quarter and $64.60 billion in the third, up 26% on a year earlier, Meta’s 10-Qs show.
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short An operating model describes how a company actually delivers its business model: how its processes, people, structure, technology and data are organised to get products and services to customers. MIT researcher Jeanne Ross gave it a sharp definition in 2005: the necessary level of business process
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NVIDIA’s revenue rose 65% to $215.9 billion in fiscal 2026 (year to 25 January 2026), its 10-K says. Data Center brought in $193.7 billion, about 90% of the total; Gaming added $16.0 billion and Professional Visualization, Automotive and OEM together about $6.2 billion.
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AMD says the United States was its largest market in fiscal 2025, at $11.4B of $34.6B in revenue, measured by where customers are billed. China (including Hong Kong) followed at $7.8B, then Taiwan at $5.2B and Singapore at $4.3B.
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Integrated marketing means planning every channel, from ads and PR to sales calls, email and the product itself, around one consistent message so each touchpoint reinforces the others. In academic work the idea is called integrated marketing communications (IMC). Marketing scholars Rajeev Batra and Kevin Lane
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Institutional theory explains why organisations adopt structures and practices to gain legitimacy in their environment, not only to be efficient. Its modern form comes from sociologists John Meyer and Brian Rowan (1977), who described formal structures as “myth and ceremony”, and Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short A slippery slope argument says that a first step, A, will set off a chain of further steps that ends in an outcome, Z, that nobody wants, so A should be refused. It becomes a fallacy when the links in the chain are assumed rather than
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Updated October 2026 · reviewed for today In short Martin Lorentzon is the Swedish co-founder of Spotify, which he started with Daniel Ek in 2006, and of the affiliate-marketing company Tradedoubler, which he founded in 1999. He chaired Spotify’s board from 2008 to 2016 and is still a director. As of 31 December 2025 he
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