The public largely distrusts corporate America despite large companies doing more work than ever before to try and serve stakeholders outside of their investors, according to KPMG CEO Lynne Doughtie. The problem is that CEOs are failing to adequately tout that work, she told Business Insider at the World Economic […]

PwC’s US head Tim Ryan said at Davos that he expects American companies to increasingly take climate change as a serious threat over the next year. He said that US banks are leading the way in terms of building momentum. Ryan attributed this to the banks being excellent assessors of […]

In an updated SEC filing on Thursday, Tesla’s board confirmed that CEO Elon Musk has officially met the requirements to unlock the first tier of a massive payday. According to the company’s 2018 compensation agreement with Musk, hitting this milestone will unlock stock options that could net him over $US700 […]

Microsoft president Brad Smith said the company encourages employees to speak out about corporate practices, he told Business Insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Silicon Valley employees at companies like Google and Amazon have organised walkouts or quit in protest of military contracts or handling of sexual […]

Jean Case is the chairman of the National Geographic Society and CEO of Case Foundation and Case Impact Network, and the author of “Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose.” The following is an excerpt from the new paperback version of her book, “Be Fearless: 5 […]

You want to increase your salary in your current position but you don’t know how to get that promotion, or you’re thinking about a career change and hoping to bolster your earnings. These guides will point you in the right direction to start making more dollar signs by shifting toward […]

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. There’s one mistake that people make when taking risks: They fail to equally balance emotion with logic in their decision-making. Excess emotion can cause some people to be overly excited and impulsive, while being too analytical can leave […]

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast with Nick Hanauer. In this opinion piece, he writes that the recent Boeing failures showcase the “parasitic relationship” between corporations and local government, as Boeing […]

Today, the federal minimum wage is $US7.25, the same rate it’s been since it was last raised in 2009. The first federal minimum wage law, enacted in 1938, set minimum hourly rates at $US0.25 across the country. Though the minimum wage has risen incrementally over the years, it hasn’t increased […]

Western Union CEO Hikmet Ersek said that businesses should be setting an example for sustainability initiatives, but that they cannot be relied on to solve the world’s largest problems. Ersek said that even though he signed the Business Roundtable’s statement renouncing shareholder primacy, there is still a legal precedent that […]

Stuart Cohen is the owner of Invisible World, an apparel company that began as a small store in Juneau, Alaska in 1985; he’s also the author of four novels. He writes that any entrepreneur has to rely on others – and having good working relationships can make both your work […]

Business Insider is seeking nominations for its first list of rising stars in HR. We are looking for HR executives who are transforming their company culture by championing diversity and inclusion, new and interesting benefits, hiring practices, and more. Submit yourself or someone you know via this form. We’re seeking […]

Danny Groner is the director of growth PR for SquareFoot, a commercial real estate company headquartered in NYC that helps growing companies across 30 major US markets find their next (and next) office space. Growing up, Groner’s mother always pointed him toward real estate – and he would always shoo […]

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is the chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup, a professor of business psychology at University College London and at Columbia University, and the author of “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It),” upon which this TEDx talk is based; find him on Twitter. […]

Martin Luther King Jr. supported union membership and criticised US employment laws. In the years following King’s death, union membership dropped sharply, despite research showing industries with strong union membership have higher average wages. But collective bargaining might be reviving. Last year was a record year for labour strikes, and […]

Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, mental strength coach, and international bestselling author. She says mentally strong people all have one thing in common: They are essentialists. They focus their energy on achieving their goals instead of getting stuck wasting time on things that don’t matter. The more aware you are […]

For all of the popularity of pitch decks, business plans still serve an important function for entrepreneurs who are building a business. A 2017 study of more than 1,000 US entrepreneurs found that those with a business plan were more successful than those without. Among pairs of otherwise identical founders, […]

Resale is a growing market, especially among Gen Z and millennials. Recycling and reselling clothes allows shoppers to wear new-to-them outfits instead of repeating pieces they have already posted on social media. People are keeping their clothes for half as long as they used to, according to a report by […]

The Equal Rights Amendment would make discrimination based on sex unconstitutional. On Wednesday, Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment. A constitutional amendment needs 38 states in order to be ratified. However, the amendment had a previously set deadline of 1982. Here is a map of […]

The push across corporate America to adopt advanced tech like artificial intelligence is well underway, but finding the talent necessary to support the pivot is increasingly difficult. Instead of competing in a tight labour market, companies are turning to their existing workforces and spending billions of dollars to upskill employees […]

Two nurses recently went viral on TikTok after shaming patients for exaggerating their symptoms, and for advocating abstinence over safe sex. While some nurses have gone viral for the wrong reasons, many nurses on TikTok use the app to talk about their jobs in a humorous way, advise aspiring nurses, […]

Marco Greenberg is the president of communications boutique Thunder11 and author of “Primitive: Tapping the Primal Drive Powering the World’s Most Successful People,” published by Hachette and available April 2020. He was an initial advisor for a friend’s internet company – and agreed to a lock-up period of his stocks […]

Sarah Blinco is a communications and digital media consultant specializing in travel, wellbeing, and healthcare content for SMBs and start-ups. She also publishes a popular lifestyle blog, travellivelearn.com; you can find her on Instagram and Twitter. Sarah and her husband Cooper decided they wanted to rediscover their own health and […]

Annicken R. Day has over 20 years of experience building engaged, high-performing team cultures, inspiring and effective leadership teams, and successful businesses. She is the founder of Corporate Spring. Happy and engaged teams do better work – and cultures like this are much more common in Day’s native Scandinavia. Scandinavia’s […]

Being the boss is rarely easy. If you’re looking to improve your management skills, you can learn from leadership experts and from seasoned executives at companies like Google, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs. Business Insider has listed below the best insights and advice we’ve heard about becoming a stronger manager. Subscribe […]

Increased tech budgets are giving chief information officers new authority within the C-suite and moving the IT team out of the shadows. A sector traditionally viewed as network managers and hardware experts are increasingly tasked with spearheading digital overhauls impacting the whole company. For industries that have been slower to […]

Prohibition, the 13-year-long nationwide ban on alcoholic beverages in the US, began on January 16, 1920. To commemorate the anniversary, we used data from the US Census Bureau to estimate the number of bars in each state, adjusted for population. The northernmost Great Plains and Mountain states had the highest […]

Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland and former mayor of Baltimore, is currently the Poling Chair of Business and Government at Indiana University Kelley School of Business. His new book, “Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age,” was published by Esri Press in November 2019. […]

Jen Glantz founded “Bridesmaid for Hire,” where couples can hire strangers to show up as bridesmaids. When she was first starting out, she hadn’t set a price – and said on live TV that she would work with any budget. That was, in her words, a “major fail.” To set […]

America’s beer landscape has changed significantly since Prohibition started. Before Prohibition, brewhouses were a staple of the American landscape that reflected the local character of towns across the country. Craft breweries added $US79.1 billion to the US economy in 2018 and provided more than 550,000 total jobs. Subscribe now to […]

Millions of Americans are looking for jobs right now, so it’s important to make sure your résumé stands out. One way to catch a hiring manager’s attention is to make sure your résumé includes any in-demand skills you have. LinkedIn has an annual list of the top 10 hard skills […]

Welcome to Success Insider. If you’re looking for economic inspiration, you’re in the right place. This week, we have a range of pieces about growing greatly – in an independent career, in founding a company, or pivoting a department. Let’s get into it. I left my job at Amazon to […]

Carole Zimmer has been a journalist for 30 years covering news for Bloomberg, NBC, National Public Radio, and public radio programs including Marketplace. She’s also the host of an award-winning podcast called “Now What?” She went to TEDWomen to hear what disruptors, risk takers, and famous grandmas have to say […]

John H. Chuang is the founder and CEO of Aquent, a talent services company that has been providing benefits to the extended workforce since 1993. Chuang writes that Senator Elizabeth Warren is right to put a spotlight on the inequalities between full-time and contingent workers, especially as contingent workers play […]

On Saturday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commented on a new high in the US stock market by saying that “the Dow soars, wages don’t. Inequality in a nutshell.” The representative may have a point: Nearly half of Americans don’t own stocks at all, and the lion’s share of stock ownership is […]

The beginning of a new year is one of the best times to start looking for a new job. Glassdoor broke down the 50 best jobs based on salary, number of openings, and job satisfaction. Jobs including Java developer and physician assistant ranked among the best roles to apply to […]

Parents with means are increasingly forgoing hands-on parenting, relying on experts to help with everything from snack time to playing games of tag with their kids. Parents who are too busy to toss a ball with their kids or teach them to ride a bike hire sports coaches for $US65 […]

It’s a new year and a new decade, and many Americans are spending their January looking for a new job. Using Bureau of Labour Statistics data, we found 20 industries that employ a large number of people in fast-growing occupations. Healthcare and other services targeted to an ageing population are […]

Jasmin Weaver is the executive vice president of Civic Ventures. She has worked at the state, local, and federal levels developing and implementing policies and overseeing advocacy efforts. She is a rotating co-host of the Pitchfork Economics podcast with Nick Hanauer. She testified before Congress about “out of control prescription […]

Wayne Baker is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the faculty director of the Centre for Positive Organisations. He is a cofounder and board member of Give and Take Inc. The following is an excerpt from his book “All You Have to Do Is […]

Some Gen Z college grads say they won’t work for tech companies like Facebook and Google because of recent scandals in big tech, The New York Times reported. Ivy League engineering grads once ranked Google, Amazon, and Facebook in their top 10 most desirable places to work, prompting finance firms […]

Tom Hardison is the president of Generative Leadership Group, and an executive coach at Pluma, a digital coaching platform. If you’ve reached a point where you’re concerned about different career issues, it can be difficult to know when to stay or try to work through them. Before making any decisions, […]

Anxiety is fairly common – nearly 18% of the population has an anxiety disorder. Yet, it’s often misunderstood. While it’s an emotion meant to keep you safe, sometimes it’s triggered by things that aren’t threatening – and can impact you cognitively and physically. It’s often not rational – so changing […]

Nearly everyone shares one insecurity: they’re scared of not being good enough. To hide this fear, people may be perfectionists, or work excessively. Or, conversely, they may self-sabotage or punish themselves. To overcome this, you need to be open to proving yourself wrong – and try keeping a list of […]

In early 2019, Mary Kearl and her husband left their full-time jobs to travel the world for six months – and are still currently travelling in the US. They spent two years saving up $US36,000 for their travels – but ended up only spending around $US289 from their savings. Kearl […]

If the secret to success were one word, what would it be? For Tony Hawk, it’s “perseverance.” And for Kara Goldin it’s “undaunted.” For former professional hockey player James Sixsmith – now founder and CEO of Trade Context – it’s “adapt.” Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Have you […]

The decennial count of every person living in the US started in late January in the remote Alaskan village of Toksook Bay. The Census Bureau is planning to hire as many as 500,000 part-time workers to go out into America’s communities and see exactly how many people live there. That […]

Iranian-Americans are an essential part of the United States’ tech industry, heading firms such as Uber and legendary Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator. Some Iranian-American business leaders, like Intuit‘s Sasan Goodarzi, credit their success to their experiences as first- and second-generation immigrants. Many business leaders included here fled Iran […]

Nancy Van Brunt leads Upwork’s talent success team. Prior to Upwork, Nancy held corporate strategy, business development, and management consulting roles at eBay, Sesame Workshop, and Oliver Wyman, respectively. For freelancers getting started, she sees five common mistakes. Many start out undercharging, or trying to be generalists. They don’t know […]

The US is sending 3,500 troops to the Middle East, meaning many military families have to part with their loved ones. Deployment brings new obstacles for military spouses, like increased anxiety and poor health habits, research shows. Children of deployed parents are more likely to suffer from depression, among other […]

Vivian Nunez is a NYC-based writer, public speaker, and content creator. She is the founder of Too Damn Young, an online community and resource site for grieving young adults. She also hosts the podcast, “What Happened After?” For many, especially those who have dealt with grief, the holidays can be […]

Erin Hatzikostas is a former corporate CEO turned career coach, speaker, and podcast host. She is the founder and CEO of b Authentic inc. You can listen to her offbeat career podcast, “b CAUSE with Erin & Nicole,” or you can start pumping up your career with her free guide,”10 […]

When someone has a negative influence over any aspect of your life, you’re giving them power over you – and that can hold you back. Instead, establish healthy boundaries with the people around you – and assume responsibility for your emotions, not theirs. Follow your values, and realise that you’re […]

Many states have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum of $US7.25 per hour. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 21 states raised their minimum wages at the start of 2020. Here are two maps that show the current minimum wage in every state, and how big the increases […]

Business contests are a great way to test your idea, build your network, and win cash to help grow your startup. Business Insider rounded up the best competitions that offer entrepreneurs an opportunity to connect with investors and win prizes up to $US350,000. Many competitions are geared toward student businesses, […]

Arika Pierce is a Gen Z and millennial success coach who helps younger generations succeed in business, leadership, and life. She is the author of “The Millennial’s Playbook to Adulting,” a one-stop resource on everything from personal branding and networking to job hunting, finances, and health. Follow her on Instagram. […]

Travis Schneider oversees all aspects of strategy, sales, and business development at PatientPop. Before cofounding the company, Travis cofounded and served as the CEO of ShopNation. He also cofounded and served as the CEO of StarBrand Media. When it comes to creating a thriving business, he says that potential founders […]

Mark McLaughlin, MD is a practicing board-certified neurosurgeon and author of the book “Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon’s Quest to Outthink Fear.” To usher in the new decade, he has three resolutions to make a positive impact on his life. He wants to shift away from screens and read more, […]

Welcome to Success Insider! It’s definitely a new year. It might be a new you, a new opportunity, maybe an entirely new business. To kick off the decade, we’ve got a range of pieces about launching things – yourself into a new phase of life, your Instagram into stardom, or […]

Judi Ketteler lives with her husband and two young children in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME. The following is an adapted excerpt from her book, “WOULD I LIE TO YOU: The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World […]

Anese Cavanaugh is the creator of the IEP Method (Intentional Energetic Presence) and is an advisor and thinking partner to leaders and organisations around the world. She’s the author of “Contagious You: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want.” She’s worked with leaders for over […]

Julia Wuench is the founder of The Authenticity Guide, a positive-psychology-based career and executive coaching firm that empowers individuals to harness their authenticity to improve life and work. As a solopreneur, she found herself dealing with loneliness – and realised she couldn’t go about it alone. So she formed a […]

Late last week, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump. Despite increasing tensions between the two nations, there are Iranian-American communities across the country, and they make up a vital part of the US. Using data from the US Census Bureau, […]

As coronavirus spreads, more companies are asking employees to work from home. About 24% of all working Americans work remotely at least part of the time, according to data from the Bureau of Labour Statistics. There are some cities where it makes more economic sense to work remotely. Recent data […]

Now might be the time to start your side hustle. It’s a new decade, and you might want to bring that back burner side job to the forefront. Whether you’re doing it to pay off your student loans or to pursue an unfulfilled passion and eventually become your own boss, […]

Travelling the world isn’t so easy when you don’t have the power of a privileged passport. I’m from Syria, and my passport is one of the weakest in the world. Here are some of the things I go through if I want to travel beyond a short list of countries. […]

Laura Garnett is a performance strategist and TEDx speaker who works with CEOs and executives to identify their unique genius and purpose and craft an actionable plan to leverage them. She says that there are ten powerful habits successful people practice – and they’re not difficult to adopt. They use […]

Valerie H. Tocci is a partner at Stutman, Stutman, & Lichtenstein, LLP. She represents individuals and families in all aspects of matrimonial and family law, including divorce, custody, spousal and child support, equitable distribution of property, pre-nuptial, post-nuptial, and divorce agreements, post-judgment matters, hearings, and trials. Tocci writes that January […]

Michael Ungar, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University. His work as a family therapist and resilience researcher is recognised around the world and his latest book, “Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success,” was released by […]

A little-known tax perk called Qualified Small Business Stock, or QSBS, can supersize your startup’s exit payout by wiping out long-term capital gains taxes on at least $US10 million in profits – or on a whopping ten times the amount of your original investment – whichever is bigger. With QSBS, […]

Dan Schawbel is a bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and host of the “5 Questions with Dan Schawbel” podcast, where he interviews world-class humans by asking them just five questions in under 10 minutes. He recently interviewed Anthony Daniels, who is best known as playing C-3PO in the Star Wars franchise. […]

The things new entrants to the US labour force value have changed throughout the 2010s. Employer branding specialist firm Universum runs an annual survey of tens of thousands of college students, asking what they are looking for from their future employers. We looked at the job attributes that had the […]

Dr. BJ Fogg runs the Behaviour Design Lab at Stanford University. He trains Fortune 500 companies, with a special focus on health, productivity, and financial wellbeing. His early research on persuasive technology has informed the design of products that millions love and use (like Instagram, which his student cofounded). The […]

Cory Muscara is a mindfulness teacher, a frequent guest of the “Ten Per cent Happier Podcast” with Dan Harris, a professor, and an ordained Buddhist monk. The following is an excerpt from his book, “Stop Missing Your Life: How to be Deeply Present in an Un-Present World.” In it, he […]

Budget. Every. Single. Dollar. That’s how Michigan couple Andy and Nicole Hill paid off a $US200,000 mortgage in just four years – by budgeting every single dollar. And they were generous enough to walk us through the budgeting process, spreadsheets and all. Get inspired (and accountable!) here. Welcome to Success […]

Kids can have New Year’s resolutions, too – it helps them learn how to set goals. So if you help your child make a resolution, take it seriously. You could even make a family goal. You can help them create realistic goals and break it down into small steps. Regardless […]

Entrepreneurs and business owners look at things a little differently than investors do. There are certainly areas of overlap, but what works for Wall Street isn’t always the same as what works on Main Street. Business Insider is taking a step back to look at the big picture of the […]

It’s common to struggle with keeping a New Year’s resolution. But that often happens because of five main reasons. You have to be ready to change and to make a plan – and know what you’d be giving up to deliver on your resolution. You should create a system for […]

Sara Nelson is the president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, and a prominent champion of workers’ rights. The New York Times has called her “America’s most powerful flight attendant.” In January, Nelson called for a general strike during the government shutdown. Days later, she […]

LinkedIn released its annual report of the 15 top emerging jobs in 2020. These jobs have seen high annual growth over the last five years. Many jobs – including full stack engineer and back end developer – are in engineering. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Artificial intelligence experts […]

It’s easy to make a resolution, but tough to keep one successfully. However, a few tweaks can change that. Create a goal that’s clear and measurable, not just a vague one. Don’t overwhelm yourself with the scope of the resolution. Keep it obtainable. It’s ok to start on a date […]

Sue Hawkes is an executive business coach and the CEO and founder of YESS! – Your Extraordinary Success. The following is an excerpt from her book, “Chasing Perfection: Shatter The Illusion; Minimise Self-Doubt and Maximise Success.” In it, she says that successful leaders are always trying to learn and open […]

One of President Donald Trump’s most commonly discussed topics is the strength of the American economy. Some industries have particularly thrived in the age of Trump. Using data from the Bureau of Labour Statistics, we found the 15 industries with the largest per cent increase in the number of people […]

Both retail stores and restaurant chains have seen their fair share of closures and bankruptcies over the past decade. Once-beloved brands such as Henri Bendel and Blockbuster have filed for bankruptcy and permanently closed its doors. Here’s a look at 13 companies that we once loved but had to say […]

Hortense le Gentil is an executive leadership coach who works with decision makers in the business world, including many C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies. The following is an excerpt from her book, “Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be.” In it, she says that […]

Carlene MacMillan, MD is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and the CEO and founder of Brooklyn Minds, a multi-site, team-based, and tech-enabled mental health practice. Burnout is a major health problem – and it can make you less effective at work. To fend it off, don’t micromanage, find peers outside of the […]

Justin Kan is a mid-30s entrepreneur who sold his previous startup, Twitch, to Amazon for $US1 billion, and has raised millions in VC funding for his current project, the legal startup Atrium. On Twitter, Kan reflected back on the past decade, and what’s he learned in the 2010s. “Lasting happiness […]

Erica Smiley is the executive director of the union rights group Jobs With Justice. It has helped successfully push for minimum wage and overtime protections for 2 million home-care workers nationwide, push San Francisco to pass a retail workers’ bill of rights, and get New York and Massachusetts to raise […]

Every month, nearly 10,000 businesses are founded in the United States. One in five won’t make it past their first birthday. The majority won’t make it past five years. Hence the need to be extra thoughtful about which industry you leap into. To guide this process in 2020, our reporters […]

Michael Taylor is the cofounder and COO at Ladder.io, a growth technology and services company. As a technical marketer with $US25 million spent across channels, Michael has experienced an adtech exit to Adobe, acquired one million emails at Travelzoo, survived two Google algorithm updates at ShopStyle, and scaled paid ads […]

Marianne Cantwell is the author of “Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-to-5 Cage, Create a Life You Love, and Still Pay the Bills.” She is the founder of Free Range Humans; her, TEDx Talk, “The Hidden Power Of Not (Always) Fitting In,” has been viewed over 400,000 times. […]

If you’re thinking about starting a business in 2020, it will help to be both in a growing industry and a location with a lot of opportunity. Business Insider used data from financial market performance, employment forecasts, the Census Small Business Survey, the US Small Business Administration, and the NAICS, […]

Kerry Goyette is the founder and president of Aperio Consulting Group. She is a certified professional behaviour analyst and certified forensic interviewer with postgraduate studies in psychometrics. She says that getting likes or shares on a platform like Instagram triggers the reward centre of the brain. And while the brain’s […]

Ed Taylor is widely known as Santa Ed and That Santa Guy. He has been a Santa Claus portrayal artist since 2003 and is the founder of The-Santa-Claus-Conservatory.com and the Worldwide Santa Claus Network. He’s ‘been’ Santa for 17 years. As a Santa actor and lookalike, he gets a lot […]

Visual presentation platform Prezi has grown from seven employees to more than 330 over the course of 10 years. But cofounder and CEO Peter Arvai only introduced manager titles and an organizational chart when the employee headcount reached 120. By carefully scaling and diversifying his international offices, the company doubled […]

As US income inequality reaches a record high, many wonder how blockchain technology and bitcoin fits in the equation. Digital currencies have the potential to bridge the global wealth gap, hedge-fund chief Mark Yusko told Business Insider. Developing regions throughout Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa have had exposure […]

Zach Silk is the president of Civic Ventures and a recurring cohost on the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast. He says that Chile represents “the tip of the proverbial spear in the fight against income inequality.” The protests there have captured the attention of elites through economic erosion and show that people […]

Cait Scudder is a women’s business coach and TEDx speaker. She’s the CEO of a multi-six-figure online business coaching empire – which she scaled to six figures in her first year. When Scudder first started up her coaching company, she found herself falling into the power couple trap: She felt […]

Descartes Labs uses artificial intelligence to detect wildfires, and they can correctly spot one in a record-breaking time of nine minutes. Devastating wildfires are occurring much more frequently than ever before. The earlier one can be detected, the better. Descartes Labs launched their wildfire detector on July 1, 2019, and […]

People change careers for many different reasons, and a new year can get you thinking about your next step. For some folks, that means leaving their nine-to-five job and starting a brand new career as an entrepreneur and business owner in a completely different industry. If you’re thinking about a […]