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Love Island 2025 Casa Amor bombshell Cach is already friends with several Islanders from different seasons
Love Island 2025 Casa Amor bombshell Cach is already friends with several Islanders from different seasons

Cosmopolitan

time5 days ago

  • Entertainment
  • Cosmopolitan

Love Island 2025 Casa Amor bombshell Cach is already friends with several Islanders from different seasons

It's all happening in the Love Island villa. Casa Amor is well and truly underway for 2025, and the Casa 2025 boys are on the way. In this year's line-up is professional dancer Cache, who already knows quite a few former Islanders. When the Casa Amor boys were revealed on Love Island's Instagram, season eight Casa Amor bombshell Josh Legrove commented on the post, writing: "Manlike @Cacherel_" The pair are good friends and have been pictured together on multiple occasions. Cach is also followed by Dami Hope, Shaq Muhammad, and Tanya Manhenga, so he's pretty familiar with some of the Love Island lot. Did they give him any tips before joining the villa? We'll have to wait and see... As he joins the villa, here's everything you need to know about Cach. Cach, full name Cacherel Mirjah Mercer, is one of the Casa Amor bombshells for 2025. He lives in East London and will join the villa on Monday 7th July alongside Boris, Ty, Jamie, Martin and Chris. Cach is 24-years-old. Cach is a professional dancer. He does! You can follow him @cacherel_ He shares lots of videos of his dancing work, as well as some modelling photos. Cach currently has 118k followers (as of July 2025). Asked what his type is on paper, Cach said: "Someone who's emotionally intelligent, beautiful, charismatic, caring, affectionate, and I'd say an intro extrovert." And when it comes to which girl he has his eye on in particular, he added: "Shakira, Billykiss, Emily, all of them!" Cach isn't afraid to ruffle any feathers either, saying: "None of them were together to begin with. No one is boyfriend and girlfriend, they're all saying they're open." He continued: "Everyone is being a bit safe and settling with what's in front of them. Harry is doing it in the right way which is why he's getting into a lot of trouble!" In terms of the type of Islander he thinks he's going to be, he said: "I think I'm gonna get into trouble, I feel like I'll be the joker of the group! I'll also be the person people come to for advice… and a bit of eye candy at the same time." New episodes of Love Island air on weekdays and Sundays on ITV2 at 9pm.

I had a comfortable life in Big Tech, but something unsettled me. I quit to start my own company — now I feel more fulfilled.
I had a comfortable life in Big Tech, but something unsettled me. I quit to start my own company — now I feel more fulfilled.

Business Insider

time23-06-2025

  • Business
  • Business Insider

I had a comfortable life in Big Tech, but something unsettled me. I quit to start my own company — now I feel more fulfilled.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 41-year-old Srikanth Narayan, the CEO and founder of Cache, from the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My career began in San Francisco. I've been in Silicon Valley ever since, working at both startups and Big Tech companies. In 2021, after roughly eight years working at Uber and then Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, I decided it was the right time to take a leap and become an entrepreneur. I had built a healthy financial cushion and was ready to take a risk and create a new company. I noticed a problem around Big Tech compensation — concentration risk. I saw an opportunity to help build a solution and educate employees on this risk. Entrepreneurship has been a lot harder than working in Big Tech, but I've found it far more fulfilling. While working in Big Tech, I spotted a massive business opportunity Prior to founding Cache, I spent most of my career focusing on data visualization. In 2014, Uber recruited me to lead a data visualization application suite. I stayed at Uber for six years and eventually became a staff engineer. If you work at a company like Uber for a long time, a lot of your compensation is in the form of stock, sometimes outsizing your cash compensation. As the company grows and does well, your net worth grows in line with the stock. This creates wealth for the people who hold that stock, but having way too much of your net worth in a few stocks means you're taking undue risk. Take Tesla. In recent months, some people who worked at Tesla may have seen their net worth fluctuate due to the changing value of the company's stock. People tend to hold on to these massive stock positions due to inertia and because the taxes for reallocating stock can be very expensive. I joined Uber at a good time. The company mostly did well and went public in 2019. All of the wealth I had accumulated in stock became real money on the open market that I could sell or trade. However, I had a lot of low-basis stocks that would trigger a high capital gains bill if I sold them. When I joined Waymo in 2020, my Alphabet colleagues talked about similar problems. I found this issue unsettling. A steep drop in stock price at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic affected my portfolio. I hired a wealth manager to help me find solutions for concentration risk. They showed me products that help people of high net worth manage concentration risk. One option is depositing concentrated stock into an exchange fund where others have done the same, and receiving fund units in return. This method can diversify your portfolio while deferring capital gains taxes. It sounded like a great product, but none of my peers had heard of it. It seemed to only be available at private banks, and only for people of a certain net worth. From what I saw, the exchange funds required a lot of human operational coordination. There seemed to be little innovation in this area to improve efficiency. I saw a massive business opportunity. I wanted to make products like this more efficient and available more broadly. My Big Tech experience proved helpful for building my business I resigned from Waymo in late 2021 to start my business, Cache, which I formally launched in March 2024. We're a specialized brokerage for people holding large stock positions. Our flagship product is an exchange fund that helps people diversify their portfolios. My experience at Uber gave me an understanding of how to turn an idea into a full-blown vision as a founder. I designed products at Uber that became widely adopted within the company. This took engineering work and entrepreneurial spirit. However, moving from corporate life to building a company myself involved a lot of learning on the job. There wasn't really a manual I could follow for building an exchange fund, so we had to do a lot of R&D. There were many steps involved, including working with the SEC and FINRA to get the right registrations, since the industry is highly regulated, and building the technical infrastructure for a brokerage system. I was one of the first users of my own product, and I invested a lot of my Uber stock in our exchange funds. I find entrepreneurship more fulfilling than Big Tech, but the journey is hard Running a startup is very different from working at a Big Tech company. I'm probably working triple the time I was before. Being employed in Big Tech was a very comfortable life. You worked on challenging problems and got paid well to do it. While I enjoyed this, I also wanted to figure out my own path. The entrepreneurial journey has been more fulfilling. I've had to go through personal trials, such as not paying myself for the first year after leaving Waymo. Because of my financial cushion from working in Silicon Valley, the stress of this didn't really bear on me. I'd made sure I had several years of living expenses in reserve before taking the leap. Becoming an entrepreneur requires drive and conviction. It's a very hard journey, and often, market forces will be against you until they start working with you. The glamour of being a startup founder or of an exit is the wrong reason for forming a company. It should be about self-fulfillment and a passion for building something from scratch and making a change in the world.

Teen Stuns Viewers as 'Vintage' Prom Dress Donated by Millennial Goes Viral
Teen Stuns Viewers as 'Vintage' Prom Dress Donated by Millennial Goes Viral

Newsweek

time30-05-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Newsweek

Teen Stuns Viewers as 'Vintage' Prom Dress Donated by Millennial Goes Viral

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A Gen Z teen's dress-up session with her millennial neighbor's prom gowns has captured the internet's heart. Erinn Downing (@er1nnh), 34, from San Diego, shared a TikTok video of her 16-year-old neighbor trying on three of her old prom dresses—garments that Downing wore almost two decades ago, in 2006 and 2008. The video, which juxtaposed clips of the teen in each outfit alongside throwback photos of Downing wearing them at the time, has amassed 4.5 million views and 367,700 likes. "I am so happy I saved them! Watching her try them on brought me right back to being 16 and how beautiful I felt in those dresses! They brought back the joy and excitement of prom!" Downing told Newsweek. Downing shares an incredibly close bond with her neighbor, who she has known since the day she was born. The dresses included a floor-length green mermaid gown from Cache, a pink satin gown with diamante details around the chest and waist from Bloomingdale's, and a white gown with silver embellishments—also from Cache. Each one fit the teen perfectly. "Emily had mentioned that wearing 'vintage prom dresses' were 'in.' So luckily I had saved all of my dresses and were just goofing off one night where she tried them on and modeled them for my parents and her mom! My parents and especially my mom loved it because she had gone shopping with me for all three of the dresses so she loved re living it all through Emily, who is like a daughter to them both," she said. A split image showing Erinn in her white prom dress in 2007 and Emily rocking the gown in 2025. A split image showing Erinn in her white prom dress in 2007 and Emily rocking the gown in 2025. @er1nnh/@er1nnh Reflecting on the significance of each dress, Downing explained that the white gown had a special purpose beyond prom. She told Newsweek she got it because she was part of NCL—the National Charity League. "Seniors have a sort of debutant ball where they have to wear a white dress! When I found the white one it worked for both NCL presents and prom!" she said. As for the pink dress, the motivation was simple: "The pink one I'm sure I bought just because pink has and always will be my favorite color!" Of all three, Downing still holds a soft spot for the mermaid-style green gown. "My personal favorite is the green one! At the time I wore it—I felt the best in it! Something about that giant center stone and the mermaid flow made me feel invincible!" While it may seem surprising that clothes from the 2000s are now considered "vintage," the label isn't far off. According to Martha Stewart, an item is generally considered vintage if it is at least 20 years old but less than 100. That makes Downing's 2006 and 2008 prom dresses officially vintage as of the mid-2020s. The video also sparked a wave of nostalgia online, with TikTokers sharing memories and reactions to the throwback looks. "That white one was ahead of its time," commented one user. "Ok white one still slaps," added another. Jen chimed in: "Oh my god I had that white one in hot pink!" Others were astonished Downing had kept them all these years. "How do you even have these still? The only thing I've kept from high school is my senior yearbook," one viewer commented. And many millennial viewers had a moment of existential crisis. "'Vintage' just hurt my feelings. I was class of '08," said Anna McDowell. Ultimately, Emily did not end up wearing any of the dresses for prom, but Erinn is holding out for her senior year. Do you have any viral videos or pictures that you want to share? We want to see the best ones! Send them in to life@ and they could appear on our site.

Cache Wallet Begins Token Sale with Early Demand and Asset Recovery Breakthrough
Cache Wallet Begins Token Sale with Early Demand and Asset Recovery Breakthrough

Int'l Business Times

time27-05-2025

  • Business
  • Int'l Business Times

Cache Wallet Begins Token Sale with Early Demand and Asset Recovery Breakthrough

San Jose, Costa Rica, May 27th, 2025, Chainwire In a world where lost seed phrases and inaccessible crypto wallets have cost investors billions, Cache Wallet has set out to turn the tide. The presale for the revolutionary smart wallet is officially live at and early investor response is already setting records—with around 60% of presale tokens sold out within the first 72 hours. Cache is a bold solution to one of the crypto world's most haunting problems, like lost access. As the first smart wallet capable of restoring frozen assets caused by misplaced seed phrases, private keys, or passwords, Cache delivers a breakthrough level of security and peace of mind. And it doesn't stop there. Purpose-built for Real-World Asset (RWA) transfers, Cache Wallet is powered by an embedded AI Agent assistant, designed to simplify complex interactions and protect user assets in real time. In a landmark move, Cache has also announced a strategic partnership with Mises Browser, signaling their expansion into trusted Web3 browsing and wallet integration. 'This isn't just about building another wallet. Cache is building a future where people can finally trust that their digital assets are recoverable, secure, and interoperable,' said Cache Wallet spokesperson Leon (Chief Strategy Officer). 'Losing your crypto should be a thing of the past. This is our moment to rewrite the rules.' Cache's rapid presale success reflects the strength of its mission and community support, with innovative features, a strategic partnership, and the credibility of real use cases. 'The secret of getting ahead is getting started,' Mark Zheng once said. 'Cache isn't just a product, it's a legend in the making,' says Monroe. 'This token will power the infrastructure of future-proof finance. We're not just selling a token. We're solving the biggest problem in crypto.' Key Highlights: Presale Live: 60% of tokens sold within 3 days of launch within 3 days of launch World-first smart wallet with frozen asset recovery with frozen asset recovery AI Agent integration for smarter, safer asset management for smarter, safer asset management Strategic partnership with Mises Browser Designed for Real-World Asset (RWA) support Cache Wallet's presale is more than a funding round. It's the first step toward a safer, smarter financial future for crypto holders everywhere. Users can visit to learn more. About Cache Wallet Cache Wallet restores frozen assets caused by lost seed phrases, keys, and passwords. It also acts like a decentralized last will and testament, so assets automatically transfer when no longer active. It supports RWA transfers, comes with an AI Agent to help set up secure transfers, and includes auto-bridging to make things easier for beginners. At the moment there is nothing out there that's decentralized and stops users losing their assets when they lose their seed phrases/keys. Cache is solving what's estimated to be a $450 billion problem—and they're the first to do it. For media inquiries or partnerships, users may contact press@ Website:- X/Twitter :- Cache Wallet Telegram:- @cachewallet_1 Cache Docs:- Ecomonics paper | Whitepaper | Deck 'Don't wait for opportunity, create it with Cache.' Contact CEO - Founder Callum Taylor Cache Finance LLC press@

Cache Surpasses $300 Million AUM Milestone With Strong 2024 Performance and Investor Adoption
Cache Surpasses $300 Million AUM Milestone With Strong 2024 Performance and Investor Adoption

Yahoo

time30-01-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Cache Surpasses $300 Million AUM Milestone With Strong 2024 Performance and Investor Adoption

Specialized brokerage offers innovative, tax-efficient diversification solutions for managing large, concentrated holdings SAN FRANCISCO, January 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cache, a pioneering fintech company that offers specialized products for managing large, concentrated stock positions for individuals and their advisors, today announced that it has crossed $300 million in assets under management (AUM). Reached within just ten months of their launch, the milestone reflects Cache's rapid growth and commitment to democratizing access to advanced financial instruments, starting with its modern exchange funds. Launched in March 2024, Cache Exchange Funds have gained significant traction by broadening access, lowering fees and minimums, and providing faster, more efficient diversification. "Crossing the $300 million threshold* in short order reaffirms that our solution addresses a real challenge for many people," said Srikanth Narayan, founder and CEO of Cache. "For investors with large concentrations of a single stock, the traditional options were limited: hold and bear too much risk, or sell and face significant taxes. Cache Exchange Funds have enabled an efficient approach to stock diversification, making advanced strategies more accessible to a wider audience." Cache's modern exchange funds were created to tackle the challenges of equity concentration by enabling investors to diversify their holdings without triggering immediate capital gains taxes. Traditionally, exchange funds were reserved for the ultra-wealthy, requiring significant minimums and high fees. Cache has reimagined this antiquated model with lower minimums, competitive fees, and a direct-to-consumer approach, which has attracted a diverse client base that includes early-career professionals, C-suite executives, and family offices. "We are committed to leveling the playing field and providing more investors and advisors with access to these powerful financial tools," added Narayan. "Our approach combines rigorous portfolio construction using quantitative and qualitative overlays and balancing the supply of stocks investors are looking to diversify. Since launch, we've delivered our clients strong performance, meaningful tax savings, and reduced concentration risk." As of the end of 2024, Cache Exchange Funds had reached over $300 million in gross assets, allowing investors to defer more than $200 million in capital gains. Some key performance highlights from 2024 include: All three Cache Exchange Funds, which are benchmarked to the Nasdaq-100® Index, delivered noteworthy outperformance relative to the benchmark, exceeding it anywhere from 7.9% to 10.7%, as these portfolios held more of the top 25 performers and less of the bottom 25 performers in the index. Cache Exchange Funds maintained a realized tracking error of 3.7%-3.8% against the Nasdaq-100®, indicative of disciplined execution and a deep focus on risk management. Cache Exchange Funds outperformed the Nasdaq-100® in absolute returns and risk-adjusted performance, as demonstrated by higher Sharpe ratios. For example, Cache Exchange Fund I, LLC (the oldest exchange fund recorded a Sharpe ratio of 1.38 relative to 1.03 for the Nasdaq-100®. (higher is better) All performance figures are net of fees from inception to December 31st, 2024. More information is included on our website at this link. Cache's growth is underpinned by a world-class team with deep expertise across technology, finance, compliance, and operations. Founder and CEO Srikanth Narayan brings product and engineering experience from Uber and Waymo, while Head of Investments Christopher Lange leverages leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and DGV Solutions LP. Additional team members hail from organizations like Wealthfront, Amazon, Principal, Meta, and Robinhood, bringing together industry expertise and technical innovation to support Cache's expanding client base. As equity compensation continues to play a prominent role in total rewards packages, particularly in high-growth sectors like technology, biotechnology, and finance, the demand for innovative solutions to manage concentrated stock positions is only increasing. Cache is dedicated to expanding access to these tools, helping more individuals optimize their financial outcomes. For more information, please visit About Cache Founded in January 2022, Cache is on a mission to help investors make the most of their large stock positions. Cache spent over two years in stealth mode, building the technical and financial infrastructure necessary for its modern exchange funds. The firm operates as both a broker-dealer and an investment advisor, with all necessary regulatory registrations secured. Cache Securities LLC, an SEC-Registered Broker-Dealer and Member of FINRA and SIPC, distributes Cache's products. Cache Advisors LLC, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor, is the advisor to the Cache Exchange Funds. Disclosures: *300 Million in Assets refers to Gross Assets under management as of January 24th, 2025. This communication is not an offer or solicitation of securities and is intended to inform only. Any product discussed within should only be purchased after the client reviews the offering documents and executes a subscription agreement. Cache does not make investment recommendations or assist in determining suitability; investors are responsible for ensuring that products are appropriate for their specific situation. The Cache Exchange Funds are alternative investments. Exchange funds are appropriate only for eligible, long-term investors who are willing to forego liquidity and put capital at risk for substantial periods of time. Regulations require certain eligibility criteria for participation. For more information on the difference between accredited investors and qualified investors, please view this article. Cache has offered three Exchange Funds: Cache Exchange Fund, I LLC (incepted March 8, 2024), Cache Exchange Fund GNU, LLC (incepted June 30, 2024), and Cache Exchange Fund, UNIX, LLC. (incepted August 30, 2024). Cache Exchange Fund I, LLC, and Cache Exchange Fund GNU are accredited investor funds, while Cache Exchange Fund UNIX is open to qualified purchasers only. Please visit our legal disclosure library for additional terms and conditions. Other important disclosures about the product are available here. 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