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Every day after school, 14-year-old Hadiya Ali, who lives in Lahore, Pakistan, gets to work. First up is homework. Then, it’s on to her agency, for which she creates Instagram reels, TikTok videos, and YouTube shorts for clients looking to raise engagement across their social-media platforms. Ali is your average teenager, except that instead of scrolling through TikTok, she spends her spare time making videos for others. She is just one in a growing spate of budding entrepreneurs around the world who don’t want to wait until after college to start earning a living. She follows the tenets of Young Wealth, an online community founded by 18-year-old Maurits Neo. Carolina de Armas reports on the teenagers setting up side hustles, from content editing to crypto investing. https://lnkd.in/eNNy5gpx

Old habits die hard, and though AIR MAIL doesn’t publish glossies, most of us have at one time or another worked for one. Which brings us to the opening of AIR MAIL’s first New York newsstand. Steeled by the success of our first two locations, Shreeji Newsagents, in London, and Edicola Largo Treves, in Milan, we’re proud, if slightly terrified, to say that we’ve hung out our shingle in the West Village. Consider this your new neighborhood coffee shop, magazine store, and haven for discerning shoppers. Come visit us at 546 Hudson Street! Open daily from 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. Photo: Daniel Paik https://lnkd.in/gZ-upDdN

Extra! Extra! We opened a newsstand in the West Village. Thank you to The New York Times for highlighting AIR MAIL's expansion into brick-and-mortar in New York. Consider this your new neighborhood coffee shop, magazine store, and haven for discerning shoppers. Come visit us at 546 Hudson Street! Open daily from 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. https://lnkd.in/e5eA4h9j

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These days, the power lunch is considered to be a lost art from the golden era of media. In the middle of the day, the media elite would ditch their desks en masse, get into their idling Lincoln Town Cars, and be driven three or four blocks to a few specific restaurants. Today, while the “working lunch” now reigns supreme, the media power lunch lives on at Michael’s. Dana Brown reports on the Midtown Manhattan eatery still attracting the likes of Tina Brown, Norm Pearlstine, Michael Kors, and others in the link in bio. #Michaels #PowerLunch #NYCRestaurants https://lnkd.in/ejG5AswH

Bill Rasmussen wasn’t trying to revolutionize media. Or sports. He was just trying to get to his daughter’s sweet-16 party. Bill and his 22-year-old son, Scott, were 30 minutes into a five-hour drive and already parked on I-84 West in a traffic jam on a sweltering August 1978 weekend. Confined to an un-air-conditioned Mazda GLC, Bill was three months removed from getting fired … from two jobs. Scott was growing testy as Bill pitched ideas for a new venture he’d been considering after, on a lark, acquiring rights to a recently launched RCA transponder that enabled 24-7 broadcasting via satellite. “I knew there was value but wasn’t sure what to broadcast.... Scott was getting tired of my pitches,” Bill recalls. “We had decided we weren’t going to talk business that day ’cause we were getting mad at each other,” Scott says. “So at one point I burst out: ‘I don’t care what you do with it, Dad. It’s your transponder—show football all weekend, see if I care.’” Jackpot. Bill Keenan shares the untold story of how a father-son duo created ESPN, sports programming’s North Star, on a wing, a prayer, and a chunk of Getty cash—and walked out with almost nothing. #ESPN #BillRasmussen #ScottRasmussen https://lnkd.in/ezTTnaEB

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Air Mail takes  Apple Vision Pro for a spin ahead of Friday's launch ! 🥽 https://lnkd.in/eSgJYE6j

In a couple of different races during the 1970s, three partners at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison ran as Democrats for U.S. senator from New York. None of them won a seat, but their efforts offered a clue about the kind of people who worked at the firm. Paul, Weiss was the definition, the epitome, of the civic-minded law firm. Not anymore. The world of Big Law has been transformed into one where attorneys often switch firms. There’s no longer any such thing as a WASP law firm or a Jewish firm—not even a Black or white firm—because the only color that matters now is green. Paul, Weiss, where a top partner can now make $25 million a year, is still a storied place; it’s just that the story is a different one than it used to be. Jeffrey Toobin, an alumnus, reports how the law firm became a soulless moneymaker. https://lnkd.in/eD4Qepmg

It’s time to raise a glass—Jeremy King is back in business. The relentless restaurateur has reigned over London’s social life since 1981, when he opened Le Caprice, once a hub for London’s luminaries including Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, and Princess Diana. Now, King is reopening under the original roof—while businessman Richard Caring is using the Le Caprice name for a restaurant of his own. Ashley Baker shares the tale of the two Le Caprices. https://lnkd.in/e8wjnVrX