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Jane Thier

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Why a serial entrepreneur shops at Trader Joe’s, eschews a wristwatch, and believes the future of office work is in your computer

Howard Lerman sold his first company for six figures when he was still an undergrad. He hasn’t slowed down since.

14.01.2025 10

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How to build wealth in 5 simple steps, according to a former Wall Street trader with 2 million TikTok followers

Vivian Tu of Your Rich BFF has one word of advice to get you started in building wealth: STRIP.

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Smucker’s return-to-office plan is a full embrace of remote work—with the big catch that it creates an entirely new kind of super-commuter

Core weeks instead of core days is the key to Smucker’s new policy. Even if that means flying from California to Ohio.

09.01.2025 4

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Getting rich is ‘surprisingly simple’ if you follow a 3-step strategy, says an expert on self-made wealth

There will always be a limit to how many expenses you can cut. But there’s no limit to how much you can earn.

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Most American adults don’t have enough savings to pay an emergency $1,000 expense

Bankrate's Mark Hamrick tells Fortune that it's "disappointing because it is an indication that so many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck."

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Most restaurants don’t make it. Here’s how Jean-Georges restaurants have survived the test of time—and even a pandemic

Legendary chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten also tells young hopefuls that if they can’t handle 14-hour days, the chef life is ‘not for you’.

29.12.2024 5

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Blake Lively’s Target hair care line saw sales decline as much as 78% after alleged ‘coordinated smear campaign’ by her co-star Justin Baldoni

Lively filed a lawsuit against her co-star in the movie adaptation of bestselling book “It Ends With Us”

23.12.2024 6

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The Bombas founders survived layoffs and dead-end jobs before starting their billion-dollar empire. They have a message for anyone with a dream

Randy Goldberg and David Heath’s certified B-Corp apparel company is one of the biggest-ever brands to appear on Shark Tank.

22.12.2024 3

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Marc Benioff’s advice to fellow CEOs: Embrace this Buddhist concept—or ‘you’re going to have a problem’

The Salesforce says every CEO needs to cultivate ‘shoshin’ to stay competitive.

20.12.2024 4

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Spain launches probe into Airbnb’s advertising of allegedly unlicensed apartments

Spain's leftist government has launched an investigation into Airbnb for allegedly failing to take down adverts for thousands of apartments without...

19.12.2024 10

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The founder of a collapsed private equity giant who took $100 million from Bill and Melinda Gates was just expelled from the Giving Pledge

At its peak, Arif Naqvi’s private equity firm controlled almost $14 billion in assets.

19.12.2024 6

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As brands like Walmart and Ford drop their DEI policies, ‘divisive’ is Glassdoor’s word of the year

Frustration, resentment, and bad blood were the hallmarks of work in 2024.

18.12.2024 4

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Millennial multimillionaire Lucy Guo works out at techno raves and never cooks: ‘Uber Eats only’

Meet the serial entrepreneur who rides her electric skateboard to work—when her assistant isn’t driving her.

17.12.2024 2

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Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they’re so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks

One in ten of those firms admitted that they plan to scrap the mandates entirely after their leases expire.

17.12.2024 10

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Multimillionaire Lucy Guo’s only regret: Investing in ‘every startup that’s gone to zero’

Meet the serial entrepreneur who rides her electric skateboard to work—when her assistant isn’t driving her.

17.12.2024 4

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Nespresso North America’s CEO ‘actually knocked on Nestlé’s door’ to get his first job—an internship that would lead him to the corner office 32 years later

Alfonso Gonzalez Loeschen has moved to five different countries during his three-decade tenure with Nestlé.

15.12.2024 9

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Shark Tank judge says you don’t need money or connections to get rich: ‘The top 1,000 richest people are self-made’

John, whose net worth is estimated at $350 million, thinks you don’t need privilege to make it big.

13.12.2024 6

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Shark Tank judge Daymond John reveals a 3 step approach for building wealth that anyone can follow

Lucky breaks or keen investments are nothing without strategy and long-term vision.

12.12.2024 3

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Billionaire hedge fund exec and Mets owner Steve Cohen never wanted to stop working as a young trader: ‘I couldn’t wait for Mondays. I hated my weekends.’

The best traders are just like the best baseball players: "They can't wait to work, even in the offseason."

11.12.2024 3

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Top career coach warns Gen X about 3 changes to the CEO playbook that hurt mid-senior level executives

Leaders have “zero interest” in long-term value, Brett Trainor said.

09.12.2024 2

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Elon Musk is planning a rude awakening for 94% of federal workers by monitoring their every move

Trump’s co-heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency—Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—are targeting remote work.

06.12.2024 5

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This firm analyzed millions of Glassdoor reviews to find the most bored workers in the Fortune 500

The Boring Company didn’t crack the Top 50, but five of the Fortune 500's top ten did.

05.12.2024 1

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Warren Buffett’s 2 secrets for hiring great leaders

‘You have to have a clear vision,’ Buffett told Fortune’s Susie Gharib at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in 2015.

04.12.2024 20

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Wealthy millennials are flocking to Florida and Texas—and no one wants to live in New York or California

Sunshine, open space, and lack of income taxes are luring high-earning young professionals out of their tiny city apartments and down South.

30.11.2024 30

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Wells Fargo: Trump tariffs would add $2.1K to the price of cars made by U.S. automakers—and could cost Ford, Stellantis, and GM billions in profit

“Autos are stuck in the middle of Trump's geopolitics,” Wells Fargo analysts write.

27.11.2024 10

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Elon Musk’s X files last-minute objection to block the sale of Alex Jones’ X accounts

The sale of Jones's accounts is meant to pay $1.5 billion in damages to grieving Sandy Hook families.

27.11.2024 3

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2025 is set to bring a ‘manager crash’ as burnout and lack of support reach a breaking point

A tsunami of burnout is coming for managers next year.

24.11.2024 7

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Trump’s commerce secretary pick Howard Lutnick: a Wall Street titan who lost his brother—and nearly 70% of his employees—in the 9/11 attacks

Some call Howard Lutnick the ‘most hated man on Wall Street.’ Others applaud his keen business acumen and consistent charity efforts after the...

20.11.2024 2

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The soft skills crisis: 1 in 4 execs wouldn’t even think of hiring an entry-level Gen Z grad

Even 40% of Gen Zers admitted there’s a huge gap between the soft skills they need for an entry-level job and what they have.

19.11.2024 10

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Jake and Logan Paul’s growing business empire: From Netflix Mike Tyson fight to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s energy drink

The Vine turned YouTube turned TikTok turned boxing star siblings have raked in millions from endorsements and product lauches.

19.11.2024 3

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50 million people have stopped buying luxury brands like Dior and Burberry after ‘broken promises’ to customers

‘A fabulous ice cream sundae is boring by the time you have it the fifth time,’ a retail analyst told Fortune

17.11.2024 30

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From biopharma to real estate to shipping, top CEOs insist AI is worth the hype

Stop being afraid of newfangled technology, and start letting your kids use it to help them with their homework, said panelists at Fortune Global...

15.11.2024 7

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Tom Brady calls out a problem with modern parenting: ‘Every time they mess up, we send them to an easier place to succeed’

Denying kids opportunities for failure and disappointment will hamstring their chances of success, the NFL legend said.

14.11.2024 3

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The AI revolution is here but it’s still ‘pretty nascent’ and ‘a little clumsy’, private equity firm managing partner says

“When we have job applicants sending us a writing sample, we can tell pretty quickly when it’s AI,” Isabelle Freidheim, founder of Athena Capital,...

14.11.2024 10

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Tom Brady’s key to success: ‘To me, failure is amazing’

Hard lessons as a benchwarmer and sixth-round draft pick fuelled the career of a 7-time Super Bowl winner.

13.11.2024 10

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Leading China investor Fred Hu advises Beijing to ‘stay cool’ amid Trump tariff threat

If China retaliates to a trade war, "that’s a lose-lose with global ramifications,” said Primavera founder Fred Hu at the Fortune Global Forum.

12.11.2024 2

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A Saudi government official had only 3 career options when he graduated but says his 16-year-old daughter has many more

When Fahd bin Abdulmohsan Al-Rasheed graduated college in 1999, his choices were limited to “oil and gas, or petrochemical, or banking, or retail...

12.11.2024 3

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Stedman Graham says the key to success is writing down everything you want in life

“Write down and be conscious of everything you want to achieve in your life.”

11.11.2024 1

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Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz’s advice for young people: ‘You would benefit from working at a company’ before starting your own

The coffee billionaire says there’s value in pursuing the practical before following your dreams.

10.11.2024 6

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Donald Trump will make a $400,000 salary as president. His shares in Trump Media could keep him rich to the tune of $8 billion

Experts see the president-elect’s wealth growing by the day.

06.11.2024 2

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Biden failed to inspire confidence because his team was too busy doing the actual work, his press secretary Jen Psaki says

“When you're sitting in the government, your job is not just to communicate about the moment, it’s to act,” Jen Psaki told Fortune.

05.11.2024 3

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Starbucks’ new CEO has a long to-do list—moving the HQ out of Seattle is not at the top

When Brian Niccol led Chipotle, he moved its HQ from Denver to his own backyard in California.

05.11.2024 2

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Nomura CEO’s year from hell: One staffer accused of bond market manipulation—and another of attempting to murder a client

Yet the Japanese brokerage reported strong earnings nonetheless.

03.11.2024 3

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A New Jersey Gen Zer who isn’t old enough to buy beer is running an $18 million super PAC from his mom’s house

David Austin's lack of life experience is exactly what sets Forward Blue apart from other Democratic groups trying to target young people.

01.11.2024 3

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Apple is challenging hackers to break into the company’s servers—if you’re successful, you could earn up to $1 million

Apple is taking its server safety seriously.

30.10.2024 2

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How Jen Psaki went from runner-up for the job—twice—to Biden’s first press secretary

Plus: The worst career advice she’s ever received.

30.10.2024 10

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Even households earning over $150,000 a year are living paycheck to paycheck, Bank of America says

Six figures can be barely enough to make ends meet.

28.10.2024 4

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Inside JD Vance’s wealth: From hillbilly beginnings to a bestselling author with three homes and millions in assets

The Ohio senator and Trump VP pick has made a fortune on sales of his 'Hillbilly Elegy' memoir.

26.10.2024 3

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Trump says he’s ‘really, really rich.’ With a possible presidential victory looming, here’s how much he’s actually worth

The explosion of Trump Media has led the personal wealth of its founder to skyrocket.

26.10.2024 4

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What Kamala Harris is doing right—and wrong—in the lead-up to Election Day, according to former Press Sec. Jen Psaki

Harris has to appeal to Biden fans in the Democratic base, the MSNBC host and Obama and Biden administration alum says.

25.10.2024 2

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