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Hi, I'm Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Weekly, a roundup of some of our top stories.
On the agenda today:
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Goldman Sachs insiders are concerned about CEO David Solomon's push to build his personal brand.
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Wall Street's biggest investors fear an economic nightmare is coming. They may be right.
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Some companies are posting "ghost jobs" but don't actually plan to hire you — or anyone.
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Amazon has created a new team to help address concerns raised by frustrated engineers.
But first: This week, Insider launched its inaugural Climate Action 30, a prestigious list of leaders working toward climate solutions. Lily Katzman, an associate editor on our Special Projects team, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the project.
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Meet 30 global leaders tackling the climate crisis
When we say climate heroes, the usual suspects — think Greta Thunberg and Al Gore — come to mind. While they're certainly doing notable work, we wanted to shift attention to others who are making important contributions to tackling the climate crisis, associate editor Lily Katzman writes.
That's where Insider's Climate Action 30 comes into play.
Our inaugural list of 30 top global leaders features activists, influencers, scientists, execs, entrepreneurs, and public-sector and nonprofit leaders, among others, who are working to address the climate crisis. Here's what the project includes:
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30 unique write-ups describing each finalist's work and why it's important.
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30 calls to action from each finalist to tell global leaders — and our readers — what they should do, stop doing, or understand to drive change.
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Original (and stunning) photography commissioned by our team of photographers.
While we won't spoil it all, finalists include government leaders like Francia Márquez, the first Black vice president of Colombia; entrepreneurs like Jan Wurzbacher, who founded a company that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in the ground; and activists like Autumn Peltier, who advocates for clean drinking water in Indigenous communities.
Check out the full project here.
Goldman Sachs insiders fume about CEO's personal brand
David Solomon, Goldman Sachs' CEO, moonlights as an electronic-music DJ, playing high-profile gigs like the Lollapalooza music festival and Tomorrowland, a Belgian music festival.
Solomon has been working on the side hustle for years. But some insiders are baffled by the amount of time and attention he's committed to his hobby and his use of private jets to promote his DJ work. Some say they're worried Solomon is putting his own interests ahead of the firm's.