She even spent 10 hours and 35 minutes inside a sensory deprivation tank in one Mercury 13 test, outperforming John Glenn. If you don't know Wally, here's a quick bio: She was the youngest woman to graduate from NASA's "Mercury 13" program, otherwise known as the "Women in Space" program, in 1961. Yay, OK, wow good for you, sir.īut Jeff Bezos announced Thursday, in a terribly cute video, that on his July 20 Blue Origin flight, he'll be joined by Wally Funk, the 82-year-old pilot who trained at NASA but never got her chance to go to space.
There are few people more cynical than I when it comes to CEOs pulling stunts like, I dunno, slipping the surly bonds of earth and rocketing into suborbital space on their own private spaceflight mission. Keith McCoy, a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist, appears to have unwittingly revealed how the oil company uses its political muscle to undercut climate action in an interview that was secretly recorded by Greenpeace's UK investigative unit. We were looking out for our shareholders." Did we join some shadow groups to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that's true. "Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes.
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But here's some free advice for Clorox: We want that bleachy scent without all the hassle of cleaning, so make a Clorox-scented candle I can light when I'm too lazy to actually disinfect every surface of my home. What's a disinfectant to do? The company says it's trying to focus more on products for businesses as people head back to the office. Sales and earnings are expected to be flat in 2022. The stock has fallen about 25% from its pandemic peak price last summer. Shares are down more than 10% this year, making Clorox one of the worst performers in the S&P 500. In April, the company said quarterly sales were flat compared with a year ago, and adjusted earnings fell nearly 15%. They flew off the shelves as we tried to triple disinfect our surroundings.īut a year later, our devotion to that cleanliness has faded, and that's bringing Clorox down. It's one thing for Robinhood customers to lose money by missing out on trades - it'll be quite another for its shareholders to lose money because Robinhood can't get its act together.Īmong the many pandemic-panic-purchases of last spring, Clorox wipes were among the most coveted and hard to find. As a publicly traded company, it'll be much harder to get away with the outages and errors that have plagued the app in the past. Now, Robinhood's got to prove its credibility. It's already proven its ability to disrupt the brokerage industry - that "no fee" trading model forced virtually every other online brokerage to drop their fees, and the app broke down barriers for millions of non-professional investors to access the stock market. The less-than-a-decade-old startup is surprisingly profitable and has a huge customer base. (My colleague Matt Egan has more on the settlement.) The company also revealed it reached a settlement out of court with the family of Alexander Kearns, the 20-year-old who died by suicide last year after seeing a huge negative balance on his Robinhood account.It turned a $7.5 million profit last year, a significant improvement from a $106.6 million loss in 2019. It's actually profitable! Robinhood grew sales to $958.8 million last year, up 245% from the prior year.
The company revealed that it manages more than $80 billion for some 18 million users on its platform, more than half of which are first-time brokerage accounts.Robinhood is setting aside as much as 35% of its Class A shares for individual investors on its own platform - a much larger allocation for retail investors than in a typical IPO.The company plans to raise $100 million when it begins trading on the Nasdaq.Here's what we learned from Thursday's filing: If you missed it, we discussed Robinhood's litany of regulatory headaches yesterday (you can catch up here). Yesterday they got slapped with a record $70 million FINRA fine. Big week for our friends over at Robinhood.