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1871 announces companies selected to participate in Advanced Member Program (AMP)
In February, 1871, the #1 ranked Incubator in the World by UBI Global, released the list of companies selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of its Advanced Member Program (AMP). The program, which was announced in late 2017, was designed in order to provide...
Peanut Butter featured by Crain’s Chicago Business
Peanut Butter CEO, David Aronson, sat down with Ari Bendersky of Crain's Chicago Business. Read the original version of the article here. A startup for you debt-burdened millennials There was a time when job seekers weighed benefits like medical...
What should the Aflac WorkForces Report tell your company?
I recently got my hands on the latest Aflac WorkForces Report (AWR), and it is chock full of valuable insights about how employees and employers view the benefits offered in today's market. The full report has great insights on benefits trends and attitudes, but here...
Top 10 symptoms of a misaligned employee value proposition
Do you, like many employers, feel like you are bending over backwards to create an environment that's awesome to work in but still losing top employees? Or, are you struggling with finding decent talent and then actually getting them to accept your company's offer? If...
How Peanut Butter is disrupting the benefits world
I was thrilled to join Justin Kaufman on WGN's Download on Chicago Business. During the segment, we talked about: How savvy employers are attracting (and retaining) talent by looking beyond their age-old benefits package, Unemployment rates continue to decline,...
Peanut Butter issues apology
Yesterday, things got a bit nuts. In honor of National Peanut Butter Day, we started posting puns to social media and became carried away, including: The smoothest way to attract college-educated talent? Offer Peanut Butter Student Loan Assistance, Give employees a...
Peanut Butter & Yodlee: transforming wealth in partnership with U.S. employers
In early December, Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV) one of the top global Fintechs announced eight companies invited to participate in its award winning innovation program. We were thrilled to be selected alongside Stessa, Golden, DataSine, Veryfi, Tangello, Starbutter...
WGN Radio hosts Peanut Butter CEO: How employers are reinvesting tax reform savings in their people
With major corporations like Boeing, AT&T, Comcast and others having already announced multi-hundred-million dollar plans to reinvest tax reform savings in their people, I was asked to rejoin Steve Grzanich on the Opening Bell to discuss the implications of tax...
Large employers announce reinvestment of tax savings in their most valuable resource: their people
How will your company compete for talent in a tax-reformed world? American business leaders are returning to work this week with a lower corporate tax rate and announcements from top employers such as AT&T, Comcast, Bank of America and others that bonuses of...
Peanut Butter & Rise of the Rest: disrupting employee benefits
A few weeks back, Steve Case and the folks at Revolution announced the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund (ROTR) focused on investments in companies across the U.S. that will disrupt major industries. As one of first ROTR investments, we are thrilled to partner with Steve,...