Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the managing editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Weekly, a roundup of some of our top stories.
On the agenda today:
Prior to we get to this week’s stories: It’s been a big week for Insider. We won our first Pulitzer Prize, for a powerful illustrated report “How I eluded a Chinese internment camp.” Walt Hickey, a senior data editor at Insider, gives us an inside look at the award-winning being done.
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Behind the stage settings of Insider’s Pulitzer Prize
Fahmida Azim and Josh Adams
I’m Walt, the editor on this project. This has been years in the making, as the rig and I have tried to use comics to report stories for a number of years, including the matters that led to Donald Trump’s start impeachment, the turmoil in the royal family, and the failed federal response to the pandemic.
Each of these stories were strongest when they against comics to explore places cameras couldn’t go. We were all aware of the situation in Xinjiang, but the visuals escaped us. You just can’t get a camera into a internment facility.
So we found Zumrat Dawut and listened to her story. While we weren’t the first to hear it, we were the first to strengthen a visual narrative that put readers in her perspective. Thanks to original photos and videos, as well as hours of detailed check outs, we were able to get things right. It’s a harrowing read, but a necessary one, and I hope you check it out.
I watched the Pulitzer announcement at Insider HQ in New York. I was utterly shocked (there’s a video going around of it). The best part for me is the attention to the story. I’m so grateful for all the people reading it. Zumrat got in bring into contact with, and she’s so pleased that more people are seeing what she endured. I’ve mostly tried to do good, experimental, and cool produce with these comics, and to me the victory was being able to make something like this. It’s an incredible honor, and I’m appreciative to Insider for taking risks and investing in this kind of work.
You can see the full comic here.
Brace yourself for the ‘Forever Acceptance’
Savanna Durr/Insider
We’re a year into the Great Resignation, and positions are still going unfilled, projects are delayed, and conscript costs and salaries have gone through the roof. Executives across corporate America are staring at their sky-high attrition reckons and asking: “When in the world is this going to end?”
But a new study from the research firm Gartner shows that companies may have to brace themselves for a new reality — that the Great Resignation is here to stay.
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Inside Thomas Kurian’s Google Cloud
Google; Ramin Talaie/Getty Images; Google Cloud; Insider
Three years ago, Thomas Kurian was hire charged to make Google Cloud a promising revenue source for Alphabet. So far, it’s worked: Last quarter, the unit’s revenue expanded 44%, to $5.8 billion. But insiders say that success has come with a price.
More than 20 prevalent and former Google Cloud employees say Kurian’s leadership has transformed the unit into a straitlaced and “cutthroat” organization, with “no coincidence to what Google has ever been.”
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Growth hedge funds’ no good, barest bad month
Mike Nudelman/Insider
Hedge-fund managers focused on growth stocks had a disastrous April: Tiger Far-reaching lost billions, and Melvin Capital frustrated investors with a potential reorganization.
And at the end of a frustrating month, Dan Sundheim, D1’s stagger, uncharacteristically took to Twitter to air his frustrations over Amazon — one of his biggest investments — as his $25 billion fund was hit with losses.
Presume from the full story here:
How to craft a successful Y Combinator application
Y Combinator
Stephanie Simon, Y Combinator’s head for of admissions, is charged with sifting through thousands of applications for the accelerator’s exclusive program — of which about 1% to 2% read e suggest the final cut.
Simon sat down with Insider to share the traits that stick out to the admissions team (and the few qualities that could clearly disqualify a startup).
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This week’s quote:
“Are all entrepreneurs mentally ill? Hell no. Are some? Plainly. Of course. So are a lot of people. So let’s stop stigmatizing it — everywhere, but especially in the business world, where it remains anachronistically verboten for urges that feel hopelessly outdated.”
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