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Ken Segall, Jobs's creative director for 12 years, told the BBC that Apple's current chief executive, Tim Cook, had done an "amazing job" at changing with the times and keeping the company profitable.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

SpaceX’s higher valuation also could mean that SpaceX is growing faster and more profitable than investors assume.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

It will take 18 to 24 months, the company figures, to find new customers and get enough production to be profitable again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

They’re also worried that its move of building data centers for major customers such as OpenAI will result in a fundamentally less profitable business model.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

“The university will be more inclined to reward by pay or promotion him who makes some addition to knowledge of an immediately profitable kind rather than him who works for knowledge itself,” he said.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik