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Berkshire Hathaway investment manager Todd Combs before a 5K run sponsored by the Brooks Running Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. The run is one of the events taking place during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

April 1, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Warren Buffett lieutenant is point man on giants’ bold health-care plan | In Person

Todd Combs was the guy who pitched Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on joining Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon on teaming up to sharply...

Business

FILE â€” Jordan A. Thomas, a former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator now in private legal practice, in New York, July 22, 2014.Thomas has built a law practice representing whistle-blowers seeking to expose corporate wrongdoing. â€œPeople thought I was crazy not to go into a big corporate defense practice,â€ Thomas said. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

March 25, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Former SEC regulator now thrives as a lawyer for whistleblowers

Jordan Thomas helped set up the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program, which rewards those who report corporate wrongdoing. Now his clients have won the...

Business

FILE â€” Drew Houston, the chief executive of Dropbox, in New York, April 29, 2016. In February 2018, Dropbox filed to go public, and when it does Houston will become the newest member of a small club of tech founders who steered a startup all the way to Wall Street. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times)

March 18, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Dropbox chief a tech rarity, a founder who’s kept CEO spot as company heads to Wall Street

Drew Houston has steered the online file storage and collaboration company through rapid growth since its founding in 2007, but Dropbox also gained a reputation...

Business

March 11, 2018 at 5:00 pm

In Aberdeen, tech exec Simons learned to never quit | In Person

Jay Simons, president of enterprise software company Atlassian, credits his business success in good part to his mother’s insistence that he never back out of...

Richard Montanez, VP Branding and Sales PepsiCo speaks during the grand opening of the Art Gallery at Tamayo on Friday, May 3, 2013, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Ryan Miller/Invision/AP)

March 4, 2018 at 5:00 pm

From PepsiCo janitor to exec — powered by spicy Cheetos and entrepreneurship

Richard Montañez dropped out of school because he struggled with English and was working as a Frito-Lay janitor when he came up with what became...

Business

Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck, speaking at the companyâ€™s headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J., Feb. 12, 2018. Frazier quit President Donald Trumpâ€™s business council after racial violence in Virginia in 2017, saying â€œas a matter of my own personal conscience, I could not remain.â€ (Mike Cohen/The New York Times)

February 25, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Merck CEO who stood up to Trump speaks out

Kenneth Frazier, chief executive of the pharmaceuticals company Merck, served on one of Trump’s business advisory councils but resigned last summer over Trump’s response to...

Business

— PHOTO MOVED IN ADVANCE AND NOT FOR USE – ONLINE OR IN PRINT – BEFORE FEB. 11, 2018. — Andrew Yang, entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America, at his office in New York, Feb. 2, 2018. Yang is mounting a longer-than-long-shot bid for the White House by warning of economic calamity ahead. (Guerin Blask/The New York Times)

February 19, 2018 at 6:00 am

A 2020 candidate sounds the alarm about robots and your job | In Person

Businessman and presidential candidate Andrew Yang is building his platform around warning that automation and advanced artificial intelligence will soon make millions of jobs obsolete,...