Buildn’Chill is Canada's first ever all-expenses-paid retreat for female founders. It exists to create a space where real friendships happen on purpose. Hosted by Julia Fedorin, Sarah Simionescu, Maya Lekhi, and Anjali Dhaliwal, this retreat is only accepting 15 female founders.

You'll get space to show up as your most authentic self, swap honest feedback, share resources that actually matter, and leave with the rare kind of friendships that only happen when builders really get each other.

No panels, no pitches, just s'mores over at campfire, vision boards, and quality time with the girls that get it.

The cabin is a few hours north of Toronto (we will arrange carpooling from the city) from 📅 January 8th at 6pm to January 11th at 11am. Sponsored by CIBC Innovation, Stand Up Ventures, and Hooplah.

Paramount has issued a hostile $108 billion takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, bypassing its board just days after the company agreed to sell major assets—including its studio and HBO Max—to Netflix for $83B. Paramount is offering $30 per share in cash and argues its proposal is superior, warning that Netflix's deal faces tough regulatory scrutiny.

Backed by investors including Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and Middle Eastern sovereign funds, Paramount aims to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its cable networks. Netflix, however, remains confident its purchase will be approved and insists that it will preserve theatrical releases and jobs. Read more HERE from NYT.

Meta’s newly recruited AI dream team, led by Alexandr Wang, Is clashing with Mark Zuckerberg's longtime executives as the company prioritizes building superintelligence over improving its core social media products.

Wang’s TBD Lab, placed at the center of Meta's campus and heavily funded, has resisted efforts by leaders like Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth to use Instagram and Facebook data to train models. the divide has sparked internal tensions around budgets, compute resources, product focus, and Meta's broad shift towards an AI-first future. Read more HERE from NYT.

Thank you for making it to the bottom of the issue! And here’s just some honesty about CareerNow and overall me as the founder for what’s now been around 1.5 years according to my LinkedIn experiences.

Some good updates recently is how I got featured on Business Insider, and it’s been a goal of mine that I had listed to accomplish in 2025 so I’ve been very proud of that achievement.

I’m not as excited as I’ve been 7 months ago to write each issue every Wednesday at 5pm PST where I would drop everything at 3:30pm right before to ensure the issue goes out on time. If you haven’t noticed, my last issue post was a month ago.

And I don’t like how my passion has waned, because I can feel it, I can see it in my analytics, and I know it. Simultaneously it’s also the fact that I've been balancing priorities that I didn’t have before and that’s something that I’m working on organizing.

However I still love CareerNow, it’s my newsletter that I built from the ground-up without any help and no matter how tired I am— I could never give up on this project because it was where I started. Which leads me to my final point…

Because I will be taking the next 3 weeks to come back to CareerNow in 2026 with a fresh look, better written + needed information, and a renewed sense of motivation.

I would genuinely appreciate it if any one of you have advice for CareerNow, what you want to see more from the newsletter, what resources you need, or anything else in between (if you have words of encouragement- that would be lovely too!) - please send me a message on LinkedIn. If you can’t DM people, please attach a note of your advice for the newsletter in your connection request and I’ll get to it asap!!