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Welcome all possibilities and paradoxes, have a sustaining for what you can become, and build a culture to realize that vision. The tech industry was recently abuzz with a post from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham on “founder mode.” In a nutshell, his concept explores the need for leaders to act in urgent, hands-on ways, and not surrender control to professional managers, who drive a founder’s company into the ground with their unimaginative, slow-moving ways.

Stand insures properties that face wildfire risk from climate change—and uses AI modeling to suggest changes so they’re less likely to burn. As wildfires get bigger and more destructive in California, more insurance companies are pulling out of the state—or sharply limiting the number of policies they’re willing to carry. But a new startup called Stand just launched with a deliberate focus on homes at risk of fire.

The cybersecurity giant has completed a 2-for-1 stock split and will open at an adjusted price on Monday. Here’s what to know. If you’re an investor in Palo Alto Networks who woke up this morning only to have your jaw drop when you saw the stock price (Nasdaq: PANW), don’t worry.

The former reality star just logged a major legislative victory in her push to protect kids in residential behavior programs. It didn’t happen overnight. In a dark auditorium at the Arizona Biltmore Luxury Resort in Phoenix, Paris Hilton is holding a microphone bedazzled with rhinestones and speaking to a spellbound audience at a behavioral health conference.

Colorado air-quality regulators this week will tackle one of the more complicated rules the state has drafted, ordering about 40 natural gas companies to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions or pay into a system designed to help businesses lower their carbon output. The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission is set to create the new regulation during what’s expected to be a grueling three-day hearing starting Wednesday, at which air regulators will try to follow state law, preserve the state’s oil and gas economy and satisfy environmentalists who want to slow climate change and improve public health. “This rule is very, very hard,” said Christy Woodward, regulatory affairs adviser for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

Are 52 gas stations enough for Lakewood’s 156,000 residents? It’s a question that leaders in Colorado’s fifth-largest city are seriously asking, with the City Council teeing up a proposed ordinance that would severely restrict how many new gas stations could prime their pumps in this western suburb. It’s heading for a final vote early next year. The measure would also throttle the number of new car washes, which a city memo cites for excessive water use and pollution. The proposal passed on an initial vote Dec.