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The country’s biggest producer of raw milk has seen its sales grow exponentially to more than $30 million, despite the health risks of forgoing pasteurization. With RFK Jr. nominated to lead HHS under Trump, it hopes to sell even more. https://lnkd.in/ea-kd9ZZ

"If I want to build the stuff I want to build, I need to use much more energy." Ben Nowack, #ForbesUnder30 lister, spoke about technology that will actually make a difference in combating climate change. https://lnkd.in/ezeV3-aK

Your team meetings could be better. Much better. People zone out, check their phones, or wish they were somewhere else. Time gets wasted, momentum slows, and brilliant ideas stay locked inside quiet team members' heads. But what if your meetings energized everyone involved? What if they sparked innovation and drove real progress? Make meetings count with these ChatGPT prompts. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through. Read more: https://trib.al/fEjMSD2

As a leader, your role is not only to guide the process but also to cultivate a culture where diverse viewpoints are thoughtfully considered. Here’s how you can lead effectively by supporting and mastering the art of advocacy within your team. https://trib.al/g5EspVA

Arturo Lomeli is transforming his super premium tequila brand into Mexico’s first luxury house—including hotels and boutiques—while maintaining the brand’s independence. Check out the full story, here: https://trib.al/EX2jqcT

When Matt Tesvich, a former high school baseball player, got injured, he threw himself into another passion—entrepreneurship—and launched a startup that offers a fresh solution to foot odor. It's been taking off.

Millions of student loan borrowers face an uncertain future as a second Trump administration prepares to return to Washington. But borrowers can start taking steps now to prepare for anticipated changes to student loan forgiveness and repayment. https://trib.al/J6vOfsy

On Nov. 12, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski declared victory. On election night a week before, his video platform—which pitches itself as a pro-free speech alternative to YouTube—had been the second most-popular destination for livestream viewers, beating Amazon-owned Twitch and taking a chunk of viewers from the dominant YouTube. At the same time, cable networks saw viewership drop compared to 2020. The quarterly report was rosy, too. Revenues hit $25 million, up some $7 million from the third quarter of 2023, while monthly active users jumped to 67 million. “I finally feel like the train is on the tracks and it’s ready to move,” Pavlovski told Matt Kohrs, a conservative commentator, on a separate call that day. Rumble now has a dedicated user base, a cloud services platform and its own advertising marketplace. Yet, despite all this positive momentum, 2025 will likely be a do-or-die year for Rumble. Read more: https://trib.al/dEernkX

Christmas trees are among the traditions that withstand history’s upheavals. From New York and Paris to Rio de Janeiro, Beijing and Ukraine, cities and towns have gone the distance to present immense, luminous, creative trees to light up the night and kindle the warmth of the season in these trying times. From the iconic Rockefeller Center’s luminous holiday tree to the world's largest in Gubbio, Italy, to one of the most expensive Christmas trees ever (made of $5.5 million worth of gold bullion), here are some of the most striking trees bringing a special ambience to the end of a troubled year worldwide. Read more: https://trib.al/WT2oka8

Arturo Lomeli is transforming his super premium tequila brand into Mexico’s first luxury house—including hotels and boutiques—while maintaining the brand’s independence. Over the past three decades, Lomeli has perfected a playbook that relies on authenticity, from the distillation process to keeping the business Mexican-owned. He takes a longterm view and has invested vertically even where it might seem absurd. For example, one of the most recent additions to his sprawling bottling plant in the state of Jalisco—where a team of 50 artisans each glaze 100 signature ceramic decanters per day five-days a week—is a box-making facility pumping out custom packaging as fast at 18,000 sheets per hour. Clase Azul even manufactures the metal caps for its decanters, at a rate of 476 caps per hour. This strategy of going deep has created one of the hottest tequila brands ever sold. Read the full story: https://trib.al/fJ4FcOH