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‘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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.”

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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.’

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‘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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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‘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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s created more billionaires than any CEO in the world: ‘Don’t feel sad for anybody at my layer’

The tech executive is worth a staggering $151 billion—and luckily for staff, Nvidia’s unique stock option allows them to reap the gains of the $4...

28.07.2025 4

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‘Shark Tank’ icon Kevin O’Leary reveals the 3 things he looks for when investing his millions into a founder

The multimillionaire entrepreneur and investor looks to do business with entrepreneurs who have a “founder’s mindset”—embodied by late Apple...

27.07.2025 10

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It’s not just Gen Z: these founders hated their 9-to-5 so much they launched their own companies

Gen Z can take a page from the playbook of millennial and Gen X founders at companies like Too Good to Go, Sweet Loren’s, and Wellhub who ditched...

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Gen Z and millennials have outfit anxiety—here are 3 tips to avoid getting in trouble at the office

Gen Z watched their peers get fired for dressing inappropriately for the office and now they’re anxious and even asking their bosses for fashion...

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A quarter of Gen X who’ve been laid off in the last decade haven’t found another job since—and 11% have taken pay cuts to escape unemployment

Just as financial pressure peaks, many Gen Xers are finding themselves overlooked, underpaid, and edged out.

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$61.5 billion tech giant Anthropic has made a major hiring U-turn—now, it’s letting job applicants use AI months after banning it from the interview process

Job seekers hoping to score a role at Anthropic can now refine their resumes, cover letters, and applications with AI—but there’s more catches.

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After earnings fell by $300 million, Cardinal Health’s CEO went ‘ruthless’ to turn it around—and he says workers backed him because ‘people want to win’

Jason Hollar, the Gen X boss of the $38 billion Fortune 500 healthcare giant, overhauled the business—and he says employees were also over being...

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Stark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z that this popular corporate gig is a slow ‘drift into hell on Earth’ that’ll make you unemployable for life

Multimillionaire serial investor Kevin O’Leary says just 24 months in consulting is enough to kill future prospects: ‘You are tainted meat for the...

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As AI rocks entry-level gigs, Whole Foods exec says the $13.7 billion grocer is offering workers the chance to become butchers, fishmongers, and pizza makers

About 1,300 Whole Foods employees have been upskilled in an artisan craft from fishmongering to cake decorating, offering unemployed Gen Z an...

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Millennials are finally becoming homeowners at nearly 40—Gen Z may have to wait 2 more decades before unlocking the American Dream

As 38-year-old millennials become the new face of homeownership, unemployed and debt-ridden Gen Z may have to wait even longer to get on the ladder....

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Barbara Corcoran shares the ‘crazy’ work perks she’s offered her team including a free Bentley, mid-week picnics, and a 5,000 pound elephant ride

While other CEOs try to create the best business results with RTO mandates and mass layoffs, the 'Shark Tank' mogul’s "crazy" perks created loyalty...

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Sweet Loren’s CEO was unfulfilled in her ‘real’ jobs—beating cancer gave her the guts to quit and launch the $120 million cookie brand

Loren Castle, the CEO of Sweet Loren’s, launched the refrigerated cookie dough brand after a cancer diagnosis in her 20s made her re-evaluate her...

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Americans are eyeing up €1 homes in Europe to escape the broken economy—no Visa needed, but it’s not all dolce vita

U.S. citizens are leaving the country in droves as political turmoil and high cost-of-living embroils America—luckily, no Visa is required to snag...

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