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South Korean teens are skipping degrees for semiconductor school—they’re landing six-figure jobs at 17 while their friends regret going to college

At one South Korean vocational high school, 96.4% of graduates land jobs—with many headed to Samsung and earning six-figure paychecks and $400K...

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As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Citi, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset

From Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Amazon boss Andy Jassy, Fortune 500 leaders have shared their advice for workers to thrive in today’s shaky job...

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Defense tech investors thought the war in Iran could make them millionaires. Instead, they faced a Wall Street bloodbath

Firms like Northrop Grumman are struggling on the market despite record military spending. Investors are now watching Congress—and a new generation...

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Japan’s prime minister sleeps just ‘zero to three’ hours a night—even as Tokyo pushes a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork’

As workers push for better work-life balance and four-day workweeks, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is moving in the opposite direction.

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Jamie Dimon says six-figure shipyard jobs are the new ‘American Dream’—but candidates will need to endure hours of extreme heat, cold, and rain

Shipyard jobs can pay upwards of $100K without a college degree—and nearly a quarter of a million maritime workers are needed. But it comes with...

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Today he’s the brains behind ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Oppenheimer,’ but the Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan was actually rejected from film school

Before Christopher Nolan became one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, he faced rejection: 'Film school didn’t want me.'

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MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

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Red Lobster’s 37-year-old CEO waited tables before joining the C-suite—he says it was a crash course in managing ‘difficult people and situations’

As Red Lobster rebounds from its “endless shrimp” bankruptcy, CEO Damola Adamolekun shares lessons from waiting tables and meeting Warren Buffett.

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With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp expects his fortune to grow to $300 billion thanks to AI—he says the U.S “biggest problem” is wealth going to unrelatable...

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 300,000 workers are needed to rebuild American shipbuilding—with jobs paying $100,000 without a college degree

The American Dream now runs through the skilled trades, according to Jamie Dimon—and his bank is investing $24 million to ramp up training in...

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Blackstone’s president tells Gen Z that just being nice could land them a promotion because ‘people want you to win if you treat them in a good way’

Jon Gray, Blackstone's president and COO, says elite degrees may get you in the door, but caring more will set you apart for success.

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Gallup CEO says colonizing Mars may be closer than fixing today’s ‘broken’ workplace—where disengagement levels are as high as 2020

Four in five workers are disengaged. And Gallup CEO Jon Clifton warns there’s no recovery in sight: ‘We're closer to colonizing Mars.’

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This former U.S. soccer player built a $20 billion-a-year company. Now, he says resilience matters more than talent—and points to Lionel Messi as proof

Jim Kavanaugh, a former U.S. Olympian, says the habits that made him a top athlete also helped him build World Wide Technology, a multibillion-dollar...

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Americans are quietly abandoning the daily habit that billionaires say set them up for success—and it could have lasting consequences

Billionaires swear by books—but two in five Americans didn’t read a single one in 2025. Experts warn its decline among Americans, especially Gen...

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One Wall Street firm is paying its Gen Z interns fresh out of college $8,600 a week—more than the typical American makes in nearly two months

Susquehanna is offering master's and Ph.D. interns up to $86,000 for a 10-week summer, plus free housing, complimentary meals, and other perks.

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Harry Styles fans flew to Amsterdam, paid a 21% premium for hotels, and sent inflation soaring. One Gen Zer paid $1,000 for a tiny ‘box’ hotel room

Young people may be struggling with financial milestones, but Harry Styles fans in the Netherlands proved their spending power can catch bankers'...

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Self-made multimillionaire says Canadians ‘give no money away’ compared with Americans—research shows U.S. giving is more than twice as high

“If you are rich in the U.S., you give money away, but I could name you 100 very rich Canadians who give no money away,” ex-finance CEO Bill...

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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warns the U.S. university system is falling behind China’s: ‘It generates a lot of worker bees’

The college dropout turned billionaire entrepreneur says while America teaches kids to dream big, China is teaching them to actually build.

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He went from working in a factory to being rich enough to retire at 32—but 3 decades later, this millionaire still works and takes public transport

Bill Holland, who led Canada's CI Financial for more than a decade, still rides public transit—a frugal mantra shared by Warren Buffett and Elon Musk.

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Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi worked from midnight until 5 a.m. as a receptionist to pay for her Yale degree—and she says ‘respect went up’ because of it

The former PepsiCo CEO says grinding through overnight shifts as a Yale receptionist earned her respect no social connection could buy.

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Three dads started selling hats from a garage with $750—now they’ve sold $35 million worth, partnered with Gary Vee, and grown a community of fathers

What began as three friends talking about the struggles of fatherhood evolved into Dad Gang—a brand now that’s made $35 million selling over 1...

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Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ every day Americans gave a record $617 billion—despite feeling the squeeze over the cost of living

Donations from individuals hit $394B last year, but a 17% rise in bequests points to a shift in philanthropy driven by the Great Wealth Transfer.

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YouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion

YouTube’s cofounders could all be part of the billionaire club alongside Google's Sundar Pichai had they kept the business: It’s grown some 333x...

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This investor won’t back startups unless staff are in the office 6 days a week: ‘Not because I don’t have empathy, because they’re going to fail’

SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin warns that companies allowing employees to work just 20 hours a week at home are destined to fail in the AI era.

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Wall Street billionaire turned an hour meeting with Disney’s cofounder into an entire day together—all he did was read a report most analysts ignored

Before building the $80 billion Wall Street giant KKR, Henry Kravis met with Walt Disney’s brother Roy and learned the importance of doing your...

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Dave Portnoy quit an $80K sales job to start Barstool—he hand-delivered papers in a secondhand van while living with his girlfriend’s mom for 6 years

Dave Portnoy left his cushy 9-to-5 and spent years delivering papers and even scooping dog waste before success. Now he’s worth $250 million.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is soccer’s first-ever billionaire: He went from begging for burgers outside McDonald’s to landing a $400 million contract

From humble beginnings to ultra wealthy status, Ronaldo’s $1.4 billion net worth proves the world’s most-followed athlete is also a wise businessman.

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Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster

A historic $124 trillion wealth transfer is underway, and many heirs are using their influence to pressure older generations to spend down fortunes...

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Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk

AI is eating entry-level jobs fast. And a new survey of 600 recruiters shows an MBA may no longer be the escape hatch it once was.

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Google CEO tells graduates to stop obsessing over first jobs because ‘very few moments are make or break’ in life—a lesson he learned in Vegas

Before leading the $4 trillion tech giant, Sundar Pichai says a spontaneous college trip to Las Vegas taught him a lesson Gen Z graduates need to...

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Amazon exec says AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs—and is hiring 11,000 grads and interns, and has more developers than 2 years ago to prove it

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is rejecting predictions of an entry-level job bloodbath, as he hires thousands of Gen Z talent.

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Team USA’s goalkeeper passed on Manchester United, the club that helped shape David Beckham’s career, for Harvard—and has zero regrets

Instead of joining the English club known for David Beckham, Matt Freese picked Harvard—but says the unconventional path is his secret goalkeeping...

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By 7 a.m., Bank of America’s CEO has already read 5 newspapers, his email inbox, and hit the gym—he says if you’re late to meetings, you’re ‘selfish’

Brian Moynihan says punctuality is a cornerstone of workplace respect, joining JPMorgan and Southwest CEOs with strong feelings about meetings.

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NBC’s Tom Llamas climbed from 15-year-old intern to the top anchor chair—and still isn’t satisfied: ‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying’

NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas shares his career advice for Gen Z, work-life balance philosophy, and why success starts with hustle.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world

The $5 trillion tech CEO warns the future won’t be powered by tech bros—but rather the blue-collar workers.

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Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup

Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when a cold message changed his life. Seven years later, he's helping Cape Verde make World Cup history.

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Dario Amodei only has 1 direct report, his chief of staff—and everyone else reports to his sister: ‘It’s incredibly freeing’

As $965 billion Anthropic prepares to IPO, the AI firm’s CEO Dario Amodei admits he’s only been managing one person—and passing the rest to his...

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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going

Before leading Google to a $4.5 trillion empire, Sundar Pichai had to rally his Chrome team after a public jab from Microsoft's CEO.

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A 76-year-old was about to lose his entire $3 million retirement to a scam. TIAA’s AI caught it—but a human prevented disaster

AI is increasingly taking over. But TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett insists, “it's still all about the humans” after staff saved a retiree millions.

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Marketing jobs are among the most exposed to AI. Adobe and LinkedIn are teaming up to ensure the industry is upskilled—not replaced

In a Fortune exclusive, Adobe and LinkedIn announce new coursework designed to teach marketing professionals how to properly use AI.

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Team USA star Ricardo Pepi grew up in a trailer in El Paso—and his parents pawned their car title to fuel his soccer dream. Now, he’s in the World Cup

When Ricardo Pepi stepped out for the US World Cup opener, it marked more than a debut, it was payoff for parents who raised him in a trailer on...

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CEO of $20 billion AI firm Perplexity says the secret to success is ‘sleeping with that fear’ that your competitor will steal your idea

Rather than letting that pressure paralyze him, Aravind Srinivas, the cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, uses it as fuel.

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The ‘AI superstar’ CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why Gen Z is a better hiring bet than industry veterans

Raquel Urtasun, co-founder of autonomous truck startup Waabi, talks to Fortune about unicorn hiring in the AI age: “Fear can paralyze your ability...

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Ex-Disney star Bridgit Mendler says being rejected hundreds of times by Hollywood gives her the same ‘traditional background’ as other space CEOs

Bridgit Mendler says her success is fueled by a “very high tolerance for risk”—thanks, in part, to her experience as a Disney Channel star.

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Meet the SpaceX employees who are set to become multimillionaires thanks to its IPO: from execs to even welders

The winners of SpaceX's blockbuster IPO—valuing the company at $1.75 trillion—might not just be investors, but also the ones who welded the rockets.

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Xbox’s CEO spent her early career taking out trash and selling coupon books—she says the secret to her rise was never obsessing over a dream career

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma never mapped her way to the C-suite—she just mastered whatever was in front of her. The CEOs of Costco and Microsoft agree.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says executives who brag about their AI cuts might as well ‘sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto’

Billionaire Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a message for Silicon Valley executives touting AI-driven job cuts: Don’t be surprised if workers turn...

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Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from the warehouse floor to the corner office without a college degree—and he says it’s thanks to not job hopping

Even without a college degree, Costco CEO Ron Vachris rose from the warehouse floor to the corner office—guided by his father’s advice.

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Gen Zers are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates

With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.

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These 12 Fortune 500 companies have survived wars, crashes, and over 200 years of U.S. history

Most companies fail within five years—but Molson Coors, Cigna, and JPMorgan Chase have survived for more than 200. Their playbook: Pick the right...

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