Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman, the couple behind Ballerina Farm, come from entrepreneurial families. Hannah’s parents owned a flower shop and Daniel’s dad owned an airline. Soon after marrying, they started thinking about what businesses to start. The couple was living in New York City as Hannah Neeleman was finishing her degree at The Juilliard School. During the brainstorming process, the Neeleman’s decided whatever business they started, they would be co-CEOs and co-business partners. At the time, they didn’t know what exactly their business would be. But the genesis of it was a partnership — and that’s the story they shared at the second annual Utah Business Forward event. The Neeleman’s were the keynote of a conference in downtown Salt Lake City at the Grand America Hotel bringing together Utah’s business community for panels and talks on pressing issues facing the industry like artificial intelligence and creating authentic brands. Read more about what the Neelemans said during the Utah Business Forward event. And you can also read about how an Artificial Intelligence corporate trainer suggests we use AI. More in Utah 'We're still here': Heritage month events spotlight Native American culture, contributions (KSL) Utah officials preparing for another winter with an increasing homeless population (KSL) What’s next for the Great Salt Lake? (Deseret News) Utah’s higher ed institutions must boost efficiencies to meet challenges, audit concludes (Deseret News) Jay Evensen: Don’t ‘fix’ a Utah election system that isn’t broken (Deseret News) Top Utah GOP leaders want Rocky Mountain Power to divorce PacifiCorp (Deseret News) Utah’s Teal Drones scores $260M defense contract for battlefield drones (Deseret News) White House urges Colorado River states to pick up the pace of negotiations (KUER) Utah's college costs are declining — but proposed education cuts could reverse that (Axios) |