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Jeff Bezos once gave Eva Longoria and the admiral behind Osama bin Laden’s capture $100 million—but she says you don’t need wealth to give back

Jeff Bezos gave Eva Longoria $50 million for philanthropy. Two years on, she says the biggest myth is that you need to be rich to give back.

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Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now the Gen Zer is rewriting 98% of its code

Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” The Gen Z ex-founder has been given unlimited AI tokens and told to...

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Women astronauts outnumber men in NASA’s new class—they’re now halfway through training and set to earn around $150K with no overtime or hazard pay

Billionaires say the next jobs could be on the Moon. NASA’s newest astronauts may get there first—on a salary on par with a mid-career desk job.

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Despite a $150 million net worth, Quentin Tarantino refuses to give a ‘penny’ of his fortune to his mother: ‘No house, no Cadillac’

Despite having two Oscars and a $150 million fortune, Quentin Tarantino has vowed his mother will never see a penny of it—all because of a vow he...

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Meet Wizz Air’s CEO—his father was jailed under Soviet rule. Now, he’s on $4.4 million a year and would ‘rather keep building than sit on a beach’

Fired from Hungary's national airline, József Váradi founded the rival, Wizz Air. Now, he flies 800 hours a year and refuses to retire.

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Facebook’s cofounder never wanted to be the boss: Like 82% of managers, Dustin Moskovitz fell into the job—and found it ‘quite exhausting’

Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who says he never intended to manage...

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Half of workers are ‘revenge quitting’ and walking out on their jobs without notice—and the majority are loyal, longtime staff, report shows

Workers are so done with toxic workplaces nearly half are quitting without warning, often after years of loyalty, to send a clear message to...

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Gen Z and millennials expect to inherit $124 trillion—but retired boomers are ‘spending their kids’ inheritance’ to go on vacation instead

Retired boomers are Ski-ing—"spending the kids’ inheritance." It will be a huge shock to millennial and Gen Z who expect a $124 trillion wealth...

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Jeff Bezos says ‘millions of people’ will be living in space by 2045—and robots will commute on our behalf to the moon

No one enjoys the dreaded commute to work, and by 2045, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicts we’ll have robots to do that for us. After all, in his...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he writes just one email a week, if that—because it ‘feels like work’ and is ‘inferior’ to just texting his staff

Most bosses drown in their inbox. Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky can barely remember the last email he wrote. “I don’t know if I write an email a week.”

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It’s not just billionaires fleeing Britain—fed up with grey skies, crumbling healthcare and the tax bill, a record 69,300 workers have left the U.K.

Forget billionaires dodging tax: a record number of taxpayers have quit the U.K., and a career coach says lots just want sunshine and better...

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Despite his $200 million success, Matthew McConaughey spent a weekend in the desert reading 20 years of bad reviews—he says some of them had ‘a point’

Matthew McConaughey has an Oscar, an estimated $200 million net worth and a 'thick book' of 20 years’ worth of bad reviews: 'Some are really good...

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Twilio CEO interviews candidates for 45 minutes over dinner—and if you say ‘I’ too much or don’t ask any questions, you don’t get the job

EXCLUSIVE: Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler warns job seekers two common interview mistakes could cost them the job: skipping questions—or leaning...

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Disney offered a 13-year-old $2 million to sing in The Lion King—his mom took $100k plus royalties instead. He’s still getting paid 32 years later

Jason Weaver's mom once backed Aretha Franklin. She bet on royalties over Disney's cash—and it's paid more than the $2 million he gave up

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Move over DINKs: SPLITs are the new financial power couple—they have two incomes, no kids yet and no joint bank account

DINKs out-earn parents by $42,000 a year. SPLITs get the same two-income benefits and, a financial planner says, skip a lot of money fights.

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Grindr CEO graduated with $500 in his pocket. Now a self-made millionaire, he plans to bring his kids to the office at 10 years old to teach them grit

Forget trust funds—Grindr’s multimillionaire CEO exclusively tells Fortune he is sending his kids to the office and up the ski slopes to toughen...

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Gen Alpha won’t write emails when they join the workforce in 2030—research reveals they’ll sent voice notes to their boss instead

LSE researchers say Gen Alpha will talk, not type at work—they predict that voice notes will make keyboard practically obsolete by 2030.

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a day on recruitment—and if his hiring managers don’t like his input, he tells them to leave

'I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,' Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says. And he admits he stole the idea from his friend, ChatGPT boss Sam...

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Ex-Meta exec says Mark Zuckerberg taught him a lesson in work-life balance. Now he has strict rules for meetings and emails at his $1 billion tax firm

After years at Meta, Martin Ott learned from Mark Zuckerberg working smarter beats working longer: “It is making sure that you’re not about 24/7...

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31-year-old millionaire sold his first business at 17 for over $100K—he lost it all in 15 months to bad investments: ‘I got cocky, I got arrogant’

The millennial lost it all, before making millions again by 27. 'Go hug your money' is Tim Armoo's advice for founders who feel empty after selling.

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Japanese companies are paying older workers to sit by a window and do nothing—while Western CEOs demand super-AI productivity just to keep your job

About half of Japanese firms have an “old guy who does nothing.” Colleagues say they take many breaks, idly chat, browse the web, and stare off...

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Billionaire Melinda French Gates once revealed she refused to fund her Gen Z daughter’s startup—despite being worth over $34 billion

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has long warned that his kids won’t be coasting off his fortune—and Melinda French Gates is making sure that...

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Millennials are winning the AI talent wars—they’re getting 60% of all the top AI jobs and earning $236K salaries. But most of them are men.

The highest-paid AI managers have two things in common: a degree, and being a man. While women and workers without one are stuck in AI's lowest-paying...

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Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring for a recent role: ‘Nobody on that list gets that job’

Anne Hathaway received the same AI-written thank you note from every candidate—and Meryl Streep said what every boss is thinking: “That’s just...

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Exec gave his Gen Z kids a list of ‘daddy tips’ when they became old enough to work—it included showing up on time and ‘bringing value to a meeting’

Bosses say Gen Z lack basic people skills. One exec turned decades of career advice into a cheat sheet for his own daughters before they started work

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This billionaire founder made his first million at 27—years before Warren Buffett. His advice to Gen Z: Don’t ask for a raise, ask for equity

Voyager Technologies billionaire founder says a bigger paycheck isn’t the way to get rich—Gen Z should negotiate for a piece of the companies they...

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He failed the military pilot eye test—so he built a $1 million-a-day traffic company and bought flying lessons. Now he’s Top Gun’s stunt pilot

Top Gun's stunt pilot built a traffic company as a teen. Now he's making millions—enough to fund flying lessons and a $2 million helicopter.

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31-year-old millionaire has zero sympathy for unemployed Gen Z’s ‘excuses’—he says ‘it is scarily easy’ to build a business and get rich right now

As AI kills entry-level jobs, multimillionaire Timothy Armoo has a blunt message for unemployed Gen Zers: stop making excuses and start building.

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Gen Zer washed his college basketball team’s dirty clothes and mopped floors to prove his passion—now he’s one of the youngest interns ever at the NBA

Mocked as ‘mop boy,’ Daniel Sung turned a year of college basketball grunt work into a dream NBA internship, LinkedIn fame, and multiple startup...

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Gen Z wants to be ‘tradwives.’ New data reveals the exact salary your spouse needs to earn—and in most states it’s under $100K

And for the average American family, one parent would need to be earning around $80,000 to sustain the other quitting their job to raise one child.

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Bosses are convinced Gen Z fakes Wi-Fi outages and sick days to sneak off in summer—but 1 in 2 senior managers are guilty of the same thing

New research has found that even senior have been calling in sick and sneaking out of work to enjoy the warm weather this summer.

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Despite a $45 million net worth, Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar still works tough, 16-hour days—he repeats this mantra when he’s overwhelmed

Even with a $45 million net worth, fame, and a dream career, Big Bang Theory star Kunal Nayyar still has tough days. Just like Jeff Bezos and Melinda...

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$25 billion CEO says one-hour interviews are a waste of time—he puts candidates through six hours of tests and wants them to order wine at lunch

Steve Jobs had his beer test. Bupa's CEO has a six-hour interview process—and what drink you order at lunch tells him how confident you are.

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Billionaire Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why so few people copy his strategy—now he’s backing $7 billion Liverpool FC

If Amazon founder Jeff Bezos takes his own Warren Buffet-inspired advice, Liverpool fans can expect him to stick around for at least seven years.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he doesn’t see empathy as a soft skill: ‘It’s the hardest skill we learn’

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella thinks labeling empathy “soft” underemphasizes its importance.

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A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he’s a billionaire who says the American Dream isn’t dead

Billionaire Palmer Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion by 21 years old—and says that kind of break "isn't happening in China."

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Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030

“We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

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Gen Z is eyeing up ‘secure’ healthcare jobs to AI-proof their careers, but be warned: Chiropractors, doctors and paramedics are the unhappiest workers

Health care workers report burnout and lower job satisfaction. In fact, Gen Z's safest bet for happiness might just be behind a counter, not a...

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$38 billion Twilio CEO wakes at 4:30 a.m., works Sundays, and runs laps around his house between meetings to blow off steam

EXCLUSIVE: Running a $38 billion company looks like 4:30 a.m. starts, working on Sundays and running laps around the house to blow off steam—and...

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Billionaire Joshua Kushner just bought the Lakers for $12.5 billion—OpenAI’s Sam Altman once said he ‘doesn’t care’ what others think

As Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger close in on a record $12.5 billion Lakers deal, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once said Kushner makes 'high-conviction bets'.

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Meet Google DeepMind’s chief AI exec—she started out detasseling corn in Indiana for around $1 an hour at 14: ‘I grew up in really humble beginnings’

Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim had no AI pedigree—she started out with a $1 cornfield job, immigrant parents, and a habit of taking risks others...

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She detasseled corn for $1 an hour at 14. Now she’s Google DeepMind’s chief AI exec—and says being an immigrant’s daughter made her a natural ‘first’

Google DeepMind’s Lila Ibrahim had no AI pedigree—she started out with a $1 cornfield job, immigrant parents, and a habit of taking risks others...

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Arianna Huffington says even high-flying CEOs are unhappy and feel stuck in their multimillion-dollar jobs: ‘It’s a trap’

Huffington Post's multimillionaire founder Arianna Huffington says success is a ‘trap’—CEOs with big salaries are afraid to leave jobs they no...

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Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises

From skipping coffee runs to hosting dinner clubs, Corcoran Group CEO Pamela Liebman has one message for Gen Z: getting your first home takes...

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CEO of the world’s largest workspace provider says commuting will be extinct by 2040—and your kids will think it’s ‘mad stuff’ professionals once did

CEO of IWG, Mark Dixon, says future generations will think it's "mad stuff" that bosses once made workers "travel 100 miles to sit down and use a...

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‘Don’t apply to OpenAI’: This hiring platform CEO sees 2,539 applicants for every 10 jobs

The job hunt hell is real—applications per recruiter are up 412%, but most of them are chasing the same famous companies, says Greenhouse CEO Daniel...

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Google DeepMind chief AI officer signed a statement warning AI could cause human extinction—she says odds are ‘not zero’ but disagrees with Elon Musk

Elon Musk says money won't matter by 2036, and Jeff Bezos says we'll live in space by 2045. Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim says nobody actually knows...

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The average worker would need to save for 52 years to claw their way out of the middle class and be classified as wealthy, research reveals

Bleak research warns not even a lifetime of savings would be enough to lift workers out of the middle class into the top 10%.

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Despite China’s 996 culture, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says his workers don’t do overtime or even have KPIs: ‘No one manages them’

While Silicon Valley races to adopt China's brutal 996 culture, DeepSeek's founder says his $60 billion AI company has no KPIs and no overtime.

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Meet the jet-setting fashion editor who turned a New York manicure at 23 into Nails.Inc—Despite selling for $40 million, she still wakes at 5:45 a.m.

Victoria Beckham and even McDonald's helped launch Thea Green’s nail polish in America. Now Nails.Inc sells a bottle of polish every minute

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