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Camp Social: Inside the Branded Weekend Getaway for Adults

Liv Schreiber, 28, was a recent college graduate working in New York City, building businesses and a social media following, when she noticed that a lot of content in her orbit centered on “keeping up with the Joneses” and summers spent with “slick-back buns” in the Hamptons. “I was like, You know, I really just wish I could jump in the lake and wear no makeup and go back to sleepaway camp,” Schreiber tells Entrepreneur.

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Schreiber was well-positioned to bring her idea to life. In 2019, she launched Brand Caffeine, a digital marketing agency, and in 2022, she founded Hot and Social, a social community that hosts meet-up events where people in their 20s and 30s can make new friends.

The two-time founder already knew how to harness the power of branding and social media to forge in-real-life connections, and in May 2023, she was determined to apply that expertise to Camp Social. Schreiber’s first camp took place just a few months later, in August, with 150 women in attendance.

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Since then, Camp Social has only grown in popularity. The upcoming camp, which cost $880 per ticket and will be held August 22-24, sold out in 24 hours. Camp Social has also expanded to offer two camps per year instead of one; the first fall weekend will be September 26-28.

“ I am firm in my belief that this is what everyone’s going to be doing in a few years.”

Schreiber has just one rule for Camp Social’s campers: Everyone comes solo and leaves as friends. “It’s a lunch table where everyone is welcome to sit,” she says.

Camp Social hosts women ages 21 and older (the oldest camper so far was 65) and bunks them by age. However, inter-generational friendships are also common, as campers meet new friends based on the activities they choose throughout the weekend, Schreiber says.

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The cost of a ticket to Camp Social covers the weekend’s expenses, from the bus ride from New York City to the Pocononos — an “iconic” start during which people are “singing, dancing and meeting each other,” Schreiber says — to the extensive list of instructor-led activities, from boating to archery, yoga, candle-making and more, and branded goodie bags, which include a variety of merchandise.

“I like to treat it like an influencer brand trip for the consumer,” Schreiber says. “ I am firm in my belief that this is what everyone’s going to be doing in a few years. I’ve been shouting into a black hole, trying to [get] brands to understand that influencers aren’t buying their products — consumers are.”

Schreiber stresses that Camp Social only features products that she really believes in and has turned down those that aren’t the right fit. Some of Camp Social’s sponsors include Dunkin’, fast-casual restaurant chain Dig Inn and nonalcoholic wine brand Fre.

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Schreiber is always on the lookout for new offerings in service of what she calls “the most important” part of Camp Social: Facilitating community and new friendships. “We can offer everything and any brand in the world, but at the end of the day, it’s about the relationships,” Schreiber says.

“People need to know [that] connection is so important. Offline.”

“Community” is the new buzzword for many brands building a presence online — and Schreiber has mixed feelings about it. “It makes me both happy and sad because sometimes people go into it with the wrong intentions or the intention of creating something just to sell,” she says.

These days, it’s authenticity and storytelling that make people and brands stand out, according to Schreiber.

On her own social media accounts, Schreiber notices that the videos that perform the best are those in which she delves into the “why” behind her starting Camp Social — and the real-life connections formed. Several friends she met at Camp Social attended her recent wedding. One of them gave a speech; another signed the ketubah.

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In an era when many Americans struggle to cultivate meaningful relationships more than ever before — 21% of U.S. adults feel lonely, and 73% attribute it to technology, according to a recent report from Harvard Graduate School of Education — in-person connection remains Schreiber’s primary goal.

“There’s a huge brand story that we can tell here,” Schreiber says, “but the main thing that people need to know is that connection is so important. Offline. We need to utilize social media as a tool to be social and tackle the loneliness epidemic.”

This article is part of our ongoing Women Entrepreneur® series highlighting the stories, challenges and triumphs of running a business as a woman.

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xAI Cofounder Says He Learned 2 Major Lessons From Elon Musk

Igor Babuschkin announced this week that he is leaving the company he helped cofound with Elon Musk to start his own company focused on AI safety research.

Babuschkin posted the news on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.

“Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” he wrote. “I still remember the day I first met Elon. We talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold.”

^{Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of xAI, during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg | Getty Images}

Babuschkin wrote that “through blood, sweat, and tears,” they “shipped frontier models faster than any company in history,” and during the process, he earned two “priceless” lessons from Musk.

1. Be fearless

“Be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to personally dig into technical problems,” he wrote. Babuschkin noted that Musk personally worked with the team, flying to a data center and staying all night until the issues were fixed.

2. Have a “maniacal” sense of urgency

“xAI executes at ludicrous speed,” he wrote. “Industry veterans told us that building the Memphis supercluster in 120 days would be impossible. But we believed we could do the impossible.”

Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023. I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold. We both felt that a new AI company with a different kind of mission was needed.

Building…

— Igor Babuschkin (@ibab) August 13, 2025

Musk replied to his post, offering thanks: “Thanks for helping build xAI! We wouldn’t be here without you.”

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Babuschkin posted the news on X, which is owned by xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.

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JPMorgan’s New ‘Supertall’ Office Offers Major Perks

JPMorgan Chase really wants its employees back in the office five days a week, and it’s offering a shiny, amenity-packed new tower, located at 270 Park Avenue in New York, as a perk.

The just-built 60-story “supertall” skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan is expected to open in the next few weeks. It’s 1,389 feet high and will serve as the company’s U.S. headquarters for its 14,000 employees in the area. It’s also the tallest structure in New York that will be 100% powered by hydroelectric energy.

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The new tower features a gym with state-of-the-art cardio, strength, and recovery equipment, daily group exercise classes, and a fancy new locker room. According to the New York Post, employees were complaining on Reddit about having to actually pay for the new gym, but no price has been set as of yet.

“Everything is still being finalized,” a JPMorgan rep told the outlet.

When it comes to food, the standard skyscraper cafeteria fare just won’t do for employees of the biggest bank in the U.S. Instead, Head of JPMorgan Real Estate, David Arena, originally said the goal was to create something “like Eataly or even better.” That came to fruition in the form of a 19-restaurant food hall curated by Danny Meyer’s Hospitality Group (the company behind Shake Shack, Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and others).

According to photos seen by Business Insider, there is also an Irish Pub, a plethora of outdoor and communal spaces, and conference rooms with city views so grand that employees might have a hard time focusing on the presentation.

JPMorgan first announced its return-to-office (RTO) mandate in January and began its implementation in the spring. Although it was met with some internal opposition (more than 1,900 workers signed a petition calling for a hybrid work schedule), the bank has pushed ahead.

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Warren Buffett’s Wealth Grew More After Turning 65

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About one in five Americans works past the traditional retirement age, according to Pew Research. And billionaire Warren Buffett has proven that it can be quite lucrative to keep working in older age — the 94-year-old Berkshire Hathaway CEO earned close to 95% of his personal wealth after age 65, per Barron’s.

Buffett turned 65 on Aug. 30, 1995. At that time, his Berkshire stock was worth about $12 billion (about $25.3 billion today with inflation). In the three decades since, Buffett’s net worth has skyrocketed as Berkshire’s stock price has grown nearly 30-fold.

Buffett is now worth $141 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with 99% of his wealth, or $140 billion of his fortune, tied to his interest in Berkshire Hathaway. The Index places him as the eleventh-wealthiest person in the world, at the time of writing.

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Buffett’s wealth has grown nearly 12-fold from 1995 to 2025, despite his extensive charitable giving. In June, Buffett made his biggest annual donation yet to five organizations, dividing up $6 billion between the Gates Foundation and four family charities: the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation.

Buffett began making annual contributions to these organizations starting in June 2006 and has donated a total of over $60 billion to these foundations so far.

Barron’s estimates that if Buffett hadn’t given away a portion of his wealth, his fortune would have more than doubled at this point, reaching $300 billion.

Buffett has held the position of CEO of Berkshire Hathaway for 55 years, beginning his tenure in 1970. At Berkshire’s annual meeting earlier this year, he announced that he would be stepping down, and Greg Abel, 62, Berkshire’s vice chairman of non-insurance operations, will assume the role of CEO on Jan. 1, 2026.

Berkshire Hathaway’s market value was a little over $1 trillion at the time of writing.

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