Ben Cohen

- The basketball player from your college graduating class is now the head coach of the basketball team

Wiz’s Timing Was the Worst. Until It Was Worth $32 Billion. Google just made its biggest deal ever for Wiz, a cybersecurity startup founded only five years ago. It’s even unlikelier than it sounds.

Google just made its biggest deal ever and bought Wiz for $32B, which is remarkable because:

1. Wiz was founded 5 years ago.
2. Wiz was founded as the world was falling apart.

It seemed like the worst time to start a company. As it turned out, it was actually the best. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

I won a SABEW Best in Business award! sabew.org/2025/03/2024...

How did avocados conquer America? Turns out the story is as rich and slightly nutty as the avocado itself. www.wsj.com/business/avo...

Warren Buffett Wants You to Know the Unknown Oracle of Elkhart A rock star of the RV industry drove his company to Berkshire Hathaway—and made billions for Buffett’s shareholders.

He was one of Warren Buffett's favorite CEOs. He made billions of dollars for Berkshire Hathaway. And you've never heard of him. New for @wsj.com: I wrote about the Oracle of Elkhart.

He’s Been on ‘SNL’ for All 50 Years—and You’ve Never Heard of Him This production designer pulls all-nighters once a week. He still uses a fax machine. And he’s built TV’s most iconic show since the very first episode.

FREE link to my @wsj.com column about what he’s learned over 50 years in Studio 8H, how TV’s most iconic show still depends on a fax machine—and why, live from New York on Saturday nights, Leo Yoshimura is at home doing laundry.

When I asked John Mulaney what he likes about Leo Yoshimura, he wrote: "I like everything about Leo Yoshimura."

Leo Yoshimura is a beloved production designer who’s been there for everyone from Farley to Fey. In fact, he’s missed a total of one episode in a half-century at SNL. And he didn't just work on the first episode. He was *on* the first episode. Since then, he's made dozens of cameos.

He’s Been on ‘SNL’ for All 50 Years—and You’ve Never Heard of Him This production designer pulls all-nighters once a week. He still uses a fax machine. And he’s built TV’s most iconic show since the very first episode.

One man has worked on Saturday Night Live for 50 years and built the show from the very first episode—and it's not Lorne.

The $500 Million Debacle at Sonos That Just Won’t End Companies update their apps all the time. This one annoyed customers, cratered the stock and cost the CEO his job.

It's a $500 million debacle—and not even Sonos can make it sound better. New for @wsj.com: I wrote about one of the most disastrous software updates in the history of consumer technology.

We Grew Up Hating Cottage Cheese. Now We’re All Eating It. Americans are hungry for protein—and loading up on a food they haven’t bought since the 1970s.

It was the food you grew up hating. Now it's the superfood everyone is eating. New in @wsj.com: How cottage cheese went from slimy, lumpy and soupy to...sexy?

It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman I got a rare look at the one tool responsible for all the tech in your life. It’s made by a company you’ve never heard of. And it’s maintained by hidden figures like her.

It's the most complex machine in the world. It's made by the most vital company you've never heard of. And it depends on the most valuable person you never see.

Until now.

New in @wsj.com: I went inside a chip fab with an ASML engineer—and here's a gift link.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/asml...

The Paris Olympics were completely magical in every way and I find myself constantly rewatching highlights to relive it. Here are my 3 favorites:

1. HERE COMES FEMKE BOL! www.youtube.com/watch?v=imsN...

2. MONDO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_f5...

3. STEPH. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf-z...

My favorite Science of Success charts from 2024!

My last two @wsj.com stories in three pictures.

The Secrets of the Man Who Made Nvidia the World’s Most Valuable Company They’re called T5T emails. They’re essential to Jensen Huang’s success.

Every morning, the man who built the world’s most valuable company scrolls through his inbox and looks at the most important emails he'll see all day. They're called T5Ts. They're essential to Jensen Huang and Nvidia's success. www.wsj.com/business/nvi...

This is definitely the closest that I'll ever get to being on Jeopardy. www.wsj.com/business/opp...

It's wild! Moana didn't make a billion dollars and didn't win any Oscars. It finished 12th at the box office in 2016. On the list of highest-grossing animated films of all time, it's nowhere close to the top. It's not Frozen. It's not even Zootopia.

And yet it's now the No. 1 movie in America.

It’s Disney’s Biggest Surprise Hit—8 Years After Its Release The 2016 family film has become the No. 1 movie in all of streaming. How far can Disney’s unlikeliest animated juggernaut go?

It wasn't a big hit in theaters. So how did Moana become the biggest movie in streaming history? www.wsj.com/business/med...