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America’s air traffic controller shortage is even worse during the government shutdown—but job candidates can make $145,000 per year

Air traffic controllers, expected to work without pay during the government shutdown, aren’t showing up to airports. It’s making the industry’s...

yesterday 4

Emma Burleigh

350 hiring managers gave their honest thoughts about Gen Z—and only 8% believe they’re ready for the workforce

The young generation is second-guessing their college degrees—and as more employers lean on skills-based hiring, Gen Z faces stiff competition.

previous day 2

Emma Burleigh

‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ writer worked at Olive Garden and was a librarian before scoring big deals with Netflix and Amazon

Jenny Han, the author behind hit series like “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” said she wouldn’t change a thing about her come-up, and that...

monday 2

Emma Burleigh

How the cofounder of Chess.com went from being a child prodigy in a religious cult to building a 225 million player empire

Danny Rensch grew up in the Church of Immortal Consciousness, running around barefoot and living off food stamps. But he left and bootstrapped the...

05.10.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Insomnia Cookies CEO made millions selling his company to Krispy Kreme, but has a warning for entrepreneurs: ‘It can be lonely, it’s a solitary life’

Seth Berkowitz wants aspiring young people in business to know the life of an entrepreneur is “not for everyone”—especially when burnout and the...

03.10.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

More bad news for Gen Z grads: Even LinkedIn’s CEO is saying the future of work won’t belong to people with degrees anymore

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky said Ivy League diplomas won’t get Gen Z hopefuls far in the job hunt. Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg agree college...

02.10.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

Billionaire Kenn Ricci made his first million after being furloughed. He borrowed $500 from his dad, bought an airline, and now takes $800K vacations

Serial aviation entrepreneur Kenn Ricci became ‘accidentally wealthy’ after acquiring successes like Flexjet—now, he splurges on luxury watches...

01.10.2025 2

Emma Burleigh

America will see its largest mass resignation in history as 100,000 federal workers are set to quit their jobs today

About 150,000 workers took the Trump administration’s resignation deal. The mass resignation is in stark contrast to white-collar employees...

30.09.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ star Henry Golding carried around a notebook with random advice strangers gave him—and he’s lived by one musing his entire career

Inspiration can strike in unlikely places, from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang learning wisdom from a gardener to Uber’s cofounders creating the company to...

28.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

‘Tyler Perry said something to me I’ll never forget’: Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks CEO learned a big lesson on when ‘to leave them in the sand’

Millennial entrepreneur Derrick Hayes told Fortune that he sticks to his business ambitions, echoing the likes of the CEOs at Perplexity, Target, and...

25.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Insomnia Cookies’ CEO runs a sweets empire worth $350 million—but as a college junior he delivered cookies across campus at 2 a.m.

Insomnia Cookies CEO Seth Berkowitz started his cookie-delivery business and got angel investors on board before even graduating college.

21.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

65-year-old retirees in France now have higher incomes than working-age adults—meanwhile, American boomers can’t even afford to retire

While the French are enjoying higher wages in retirement than the country’s workers, nearly a fifth of American retirees are “struggling” or...

16.09.2025 4

Emma Burleigh

Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI

Zoom leader Eric Yuan admits that the technology will erase some human jobs—but those who keep their jobs will enjoy fewer working days.

15.09.2025 7

Emma Burleigh

‘Million Dollar Listing’ star Fredrik Eklund says Gen Z doesn’t need a college degree to make it in real estate: ‘You’ve gotta be out on the streets’

Music to the ears of Gen Z, the real-estate mogul closing $15 billion in property sales says there are some things you can’t learn in a classroom.

14.09.2025 20

Emma Burleigh

NYU professor says traditional networking is ‘nonsense’ — instead, real friendships are key to success

NYU professor and seasoned business leader Suzy Welch says that handing out business cards at industry functions won’t lead to success. Melinda...

12.09.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

Klarna’s $17 billion IPO has just turned 40 staffers into overnight millionaires—adding a fresh batch to the fintech’s ultrawealthy club

Now, at least 100 Klarna workers have collectively joined the millionaire club—and workers who invested early in Nvidia, Canva, and Palantir are...

11.09.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

Job-hopping Gen Z only stay in each job 1 year and 54% are regularly browsing for their next role—but a report says they’re not disloyal villains

While Gen Xers and baby boomers stayed in their first jobs for around 3 years, Gen Z are ditching their employers yearly without the promise of bigger...

11.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Multimillion-dollar restaurant CEO splurged on Range Rovers and McLarens—but now he’s ‘mindful’ about spending because the economy is unpredictable

Millennial founder and CEO of Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks, Derrick Hayes, splurged on Bentleys, a Range Rover, and McLaren after achieving...

09.09.2025 40

Emma Burleigh

Silicon Valley’s graying workforce: Gen Z staff cut in half at tech companies as the average age goes up by 5 years

As AI takes over entry-level jobs, the amount of Gen Z at large public tech companies like Meta and Microsoft has been slashed in half, and the age of...

07.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

America’s billionaires are worth $5.7 trillion—but they’ve only pledged or donated $185 billion of that in the last decade

The U.S.’s 1,135 billionaires are sitting on a collective $5.7 trillion, but few are giving back through philanthropy: They've only pledged or...

05.09.2025 60

Emma Burleigh

Tennis champion Coco Gauff loves this $2 monthly subscription, cooks TikTok recipes, and treats herself with $3,000 shopping sprees

21-year-old star athlete Coco Gauff has been breaking tennis records for years—but the multimillionaire doesn’t pay for her own Netflix, shops...

04.09.2025 20

Emma Burleigh

Unemployed graduates are flocking to this business degree to stand out in the current job market—unlike most MBAs it requires zero work experience

Gen Z graduates down on their luck amid AI jobs automation are turning to masters of management degrees—no business expertise or work experience...

03.09.2025 2

Emma Burleigh

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in: ‘I need less heads’

Billionaire tech boss Marc Benioff isn’t the only one replacing customer service and sales roles with AI—Klarna and Microsoft have also slashed...

02.09.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Luxury real estate star Fredrik Eklund reveals the latest trend for wealthy buyers: at-home ‘biohacking’

‘Million Dollar Listing’ star Fredrik Eklund says his millionaire clientele are spending big bucks to do popular wellness trends at home—the...

31.08.2025 60

Emma Burleigh

Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks CEO grew up in ‘survival mode’ selling newspapers and bean pies—now his chain sells a $12 cheesesteak every 58 seconds

Just like Gen Z, Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks' millennial founder and CEO Derrick Hayes juggled multiple side gigs growing up: “I was always a hustler.”

30.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Forget 40 hours: The Dutch get their work done in just 32 hours a week—and women made it possible

Netherlands’ workers are only clocking in four days per week, while American staffers stuck in the ‘grindset’ average 43 hours on the job weekly.

28.08.2025 30

Emma Burleigh

Boomer NYU professor says Gen Z’s lazy label comes from zero faith in the payoff of hard work—and a fear that the world will end in 20 years anyway

Baby boomer NYU professor Suzy Welch said people should sympathize with the “vulnerability and sadness” of Gen Z’s current situation—crippling...

26.08.2025 4

Emma Burleigh

Millions of Gen Zers are jobless—and unemployment is mainly affecting men

Young men ages 20 to 24 have faced higher unemployment rates since the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic as Gen Z women funnel into AI-proof jobs like...

26.08.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

Before ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Henry Golding swept salon floors at 14 for $32 a day and worked as a travel host on his way to stardom

The 38-year-old actor was a globetrotting presenter for BBC and ESPN before Hollywood director John Chu offered him a life-changing role via Facebook...

24.08.2025 9

Emma Burleigh

Ex-Applebee’s exec was told she’d never be CEO—she bought the chain and fired her naysayer: ‘We don’t need two of us, so I’m gonna have to let you go’

Multimillionaire baby boomer Julia Stewart grew IHOP’s business and got back at her former employer after being denied the top role. Spanx’s and...

22.08.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

OpenAI may soon be the world’s most valuable private company—but CEO Sam Altman won’t profit much, with no equity and just a $76,001 salary

OpenAI’s Sam Altman didn’t build his fortune off his modest CEO salary. The tech titan worth $1.9 billion instead made critical early investments...

21.08.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

The exact salary the ultra-wealthy say they’d need to feel ‘comfortable’ in the current climate has been revealed—and it starts at $500,000

Just 20 years ago, those making $170,000 were considered to be upper-class—but America’s cost of living crisis is pushing up the threshold to feel...

20.08.2025 4

Emma Burleigh

82-year-old CEO grew a $7.8 billion fortune from company shares—now she’s selling stock to charity and signed Bill Gates’ pledge to give away 99%

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner pours profits from selling her nonvoting shares into charity. She also defies the Silicon Valley standard by having...

19.08.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

‘Quiet cracking’ is spreading in offices: Half of workers are at breaking point, and it’s costing companies $438 billion in productivity loss

Thanks to AI and disappearing career growth, staff are silently but massively disengaging with their employers—welcome to ‘Quiet cracking.’

18.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

‘Million Dollar Listing’ star used to sling paninis, but now leads a team closing $15 billion in deals—because someone was ‘stupid enough’ to hire him

Fredrik Eklund moved to NYC from Stockholm with no job or connections, making a penny for every panini he passed out. Now, his real estate client...

17.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Steve Jobs’ first Silicon Valley boss turned down an offer to buy a third of Apple for $50,000—today, his share would be worth nearly $1 trillion

Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell missed out on becoming a trillionaire because he snubbed an offer from his ex-employee, the late Steve Jobs.

15.08.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

AMD CEO won’t offer $100 million salaries to poach talent like Mark Zuckerberg. She says it’s more important staff don’t feel like ‘a cog in the wheel’

Lisa Su, CEO of $284 billion semiconductor titan AMD, is in agreement with Anthropic leader Dario Amodei that nine-figure pay packages can’t buy...

13.08.2025 20

Emma Burleigh

College used to open doors—now even grads with master’s degrees are sending 60 job applications a month with no luck

Even those who studied college majors that once guaranteed six-figure salaries are struggling to land work: Computer science grads are applying for up...

12.08.2025 100

Emma Burleigh

Figma’s CEO sent cold emails and bought coffee to convince former LinkedIn and Flipboard coworkers to use his product before its $68 billion success

Dylan Field may not be helming a $68 billion company if it weren’t for cold-calling his coworkers and taking his tech ‘heroes’ for coffee—and...

11.08.2025 9

Emma Burleigh

‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary says being liked has nothing to do with success—Steve Jobs taught him: ‘You can’t worry about whose feelings you bruise’

The multimillionaire investor told Fortune that he learned from working with the late Apple CEO that embracing a “founder’s mindset” involves...

10.08.2025 6

Emma Burleigh

Sorry Gen X: Boomers are making millennials their successors for CEO jobs instead because they’re down with AI

The ‘forgotten generation’ of Gen Xers are being passed up for the CEO job—now, billion-dollar companies like Red Lobster, Lime, and Kickstarter...

07.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

AI is gutting workforces—and an ex-Google exec says CEOs are too busy ‘celebrating’ their efficiency gains to see they’re next

Google’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat says that the notion AI will create jobs is ‘100% crap’. He warns it’ll wipe out jobs, with...

06.08.2025 3

Emma Burleigh

Forget cold plunges: this CEO says the Gen Z habit of starting the day with memes is his favorite morning routine

Leading a billion-dollar business is exhausting work. Yet GoTo Foods' boss Jim Holthouser winds down after his 12-hour work day by reading 100 more...

05.08.2025 4

Emma Burleigh

This Gen Zer dropped out of NYU at just 19 to launch his blockchain—now, his $1.3 billion company is backed by Mark Cuban and he never takes a day off

Eric Chen, the CEO and cofounder of financial blockchain Injective, can’t remember the last time he took a day off, and swears by a $2,900 mattress...

05.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his employees are refusing Zuckerberg’s $100 million payout—and he’s not even matching salaries to keep them

Anthropic’s billionaire boss Dario Amodei isn’t willing to fight fire with fire by raising his own staffers’ salaries to convince them to...

04.08.2025 20

Emma Burleigh

AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they’d rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot

Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

03.08.2025 20

Emma Burleigh

Six-figure salaries aren’t cutting it: Even high-earners are feeling the pinch right now and shopping at the dollar store

Workers making over $100,000 aren’t choosing to fly economy over first-class—they are cutting back on dining out, buying clothes, and even...

01.08.2025 10

Emma Burleigh

TripAdvisor cofounder admits he’s often ghosted on LinkedIn now that he’s stepped down—but a career expert says it could be a ‘blessing in disguise’

Tripadvisor’s former CEO, Steve Kaufer, has been on the receiving end of radio silence for years. A career expert says there are four ways to make...

31.07.2025 4

Emma Burleigh

Eventbrite’s CEO quit a cushy career in Hollywood to launch the $225 million company with her own money: ‘If it’s a disaster, we’ll just be broke’

Exclusive: Eventbrite CEO and cofounder Julia Hartz launched the company in a windowless closet with her two cofounders for less than $250,000, after...

30.07.2025 5

Emma Burleigh

Caitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie card sold for a record-breaking $660,000 at auction—over eight times her $76,000 salary

The WNBA star makes about $76,000, compared to the average NBA player earning $9.7 million—and it's forced some female athletes to make ends meet...

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