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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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Former ‘Glee’ star Jane Lynch says the secret to career success isn’t a 10-year plan: ‘Life doesn’t care about your timeline’

Emmy-winning actor Jane Lynch told Gen Z she had no career plan after college—but embracing unexpected opportunities led her to become a Hollywood...

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Walmart CEO John Furner worked his way up from the garden center. After 30 years, he’s sharing the one trait that matters most in his job

After rising from hourly associate to CEO, Walmart’s John Furner says embracing change was key—a view shared by execs at Macy’s, Xerox, and...

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Chipotle COO calls hiring one of the ‘most painful processes’—so his AI bot ‘Ava Cado’ cut it from 12 days to 4

“At the end of the day, that applicant ends up working for a human,” Jason Kidd said at the Fortune COO Summit. “So how far can we push it?”

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Data center CEO is hoping for a skilled-trades revival in his lifetime—he’s recruiting couch-dwelling Gen Z with two weeks of vacation on day one

The push to build AI may be reshaping work—but the resulting data center boom is also accelerating demand for hands-on labor, according to Dycom...

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Southwest ditched free bags and MGM added all-inclusive perks: how the travel industry is reinventing itself to survive

Executives at Southwest and MGM say reinvention—not tradition—is becoming essential as travelers grow more price-conscious and industry pressures...

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6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means

Despite ticket chaos and readiness questions swirling around the 2026 World Cup, Nike and U.S. Soccer chief operating officers say years of planning...

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‘Nobody’s safe’: Cognizant projected 90% of jobs would be disrupted by 2032—but we’re beyond it 6 years early

Head of Research Ollie O’Donoghue said even plumbers aren’t immune to AI. “The plumber still fixes the pipe,” but AI can inspect and diagnose.

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Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’

Ravi Kumar S., CEO of $27 billion IT firm Cognizant, says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs—and companies obsessed with tokens are measuring the...

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Ex-Workday CEO says his career took off after he changed his attitude—and Amazon boss Andy Jassy swears by the same mindset hack

Gen Z may feel AI is blocking their climb up the ladder, but according to the former CEO of Workday, attitude could be holding them back.

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Jack Link’s CEO shares his message for Gen Z workers: Commit, stick to it, and ‘be really good at it’

Jack Link’s grew from a family jerky recipe into a global empire—and CEO Troy Link says success starts with small-town roots and a whole lot of grit.

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Conan O’Brien tells Harvard graduates to play down their $250K Ivy League degree—and instead embrace being humble and ‘bad at things’

Comedian Conan O’Brien said his Harvard education sometimes hurt his career—and now he’s urging Gen Z not to let a degree define them.

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From Target stockrooms to factory floors: The first jobs that shaped Fortune’s Most Powerful Women

The leaders on Fortune’s 2026 Most Powerful Women list can trace their earliest ambition to their first jobs.

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Costco CEO says AI is not stealing workers’ jobs—it’s ‘elevating’ them

As companies like Meta and Amazon use AI to justify headcount reductions, Costco is doubling down on $1.50 hot dogs and humans at the cash register.

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Ex-Disney star Hilary Duff warns saying yes too much actually hurt her career: ‘Just because something is a good paycheck, it doesn’t mean it’s right’

The “Lizzie McGuire” star admits she said yes to almost everything early in her career—and has regrets. Now, she's telling Gen Z to be more selective.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits he criticizes everything his 42,000-plus employees show him: ‘You can’t go a day without some criticism’

The billionaire tech CEO says that a tough-love management style, influenced by his Taiwanese parents, has been key to Nvidia’s $5 trillion success.

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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working

“There's no such thing as a workweek anymore anyway,” the millionaire says—but he admits the 9-to-5 approach is outdated, too.

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Former Tesla president shares the secret to success he learned from his former boss, Elon Musk: ‘He demands to only work with world-class talent’

Elon Musk’s success at building out Tesla and SpaceX came down to the people he hired—and they often shared an unusual mix of four qualities,...

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Steve Wozniak says he didn’t cofound Apple to ‘make money’—he only did it because he was rejected by HP 5 times, and for years his pay was just $50

While he could’ve been a trillionaire today, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak sold his stake early: “I didn’t want to be near money, because it...

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‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school professor says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation

Despite being innovation leaders, young workers face an AI transition that prioritizes "better, cheaper, faster" over breakthrough thinking, according...

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Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year

Billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, says the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal income tax—and he plans to pitch the idea to...

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Despite a $500 million net worth, Shaq just finished his fourth degree. He warns graduates: ‘Your character will take you further than your resume’

The NBA legend and businessman just earned another degree from LSU at 54—but he says character and humility matter more than credentials.

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Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’:

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of “entitlement” forced a sweeping reset—including cutting the HR team, he says, which was “creating...

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Dr. Bernice King on why companies that walked back DEI were never truly committed: ‘If you retreat that quick…that reveals who you really are’

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. says corporate retreats from DEI initiatives expose which companies genuinely cared.

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Tom Brady tells Gen Z to treat their careers like the Super Bowl: ‘You may only get one chance to impress your boss or land a promotion’

The seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady admits success can be fleeting while pointing to Blackberry and Blockbuster. ‘Sometimes there isn’t...

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Will the future of work for Gen Z include space? Tech leaders predict space work and travel could be just a decade away

As the number of Gen Z’s entry-level jobs shrinks, billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say the real growth is soon leaving Earth.

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Goldman Sachs’ CEO once scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins—he picked up a second job at McDonald’s after his dad gave him a time management lesson

Before becoming Goldman Sachs CEO, David Solomon scooped ice cream, flipped burgers at McDonald’s, and DJed on the side.

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Gen Z wants AI-proof jobs. The president of a 50-property hotel chain says hospitality is hiding in plain sight

Kurt Alexander, president of Omni Hotels, says hospitality offers AI-resistant careers for young workers with the right attitude—something that...

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Before ‘Star Wars’ made him a multimillionaire, Harrison Ford struggled to make ends meet—so he spent 15 years working a trades side-gig

Before Harrison Ford became Han Solo and earned $1,000 a week for the role, he spent 15 years as a woodworker to pay the bills.

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Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts ‘huge boom’ in blue-collar jobs—his own data center company is hiring 30,000 new roles

As AI threatens office jobs, Blackstone’s COO says it’s also creating thousands of high-paying trades jobs.

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Despite having a $165 million net worth, Scarlett Johansson says work-life balance doesn’t exist—and the first step to success is admitting that

“Admitting that there is no work-life balance is the first step to getting there in a way because it's just not possible,” Scarlett Johansson...

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Delta’s CEO let AI write a speech for Gen Z college grads—but he threw it away and started over with pencil and paper for one key reason

As AI reshapes the job market, Delta CEO Ed Bastian warned Gen Z graduates about over relying on the technology that lacks ‘soul.’

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Microsoft’s CFO admits she joined the tech giant without even knowing her salary—and then missed her first day of work

Amy Hood accepted a Microsoft job in 2002 without knowing her salary. Two decades later, her compensation now tops $29 million.

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Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at risk

As student debt surpasses $1.7 trillion, a Trump-backed rule would strip federal aid from degree and certificate programs with weak earnings outcomes.

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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’

First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso isn’t afraid to pick up pen and paper—something similarly embraced by top business leaders at Chevron and even OpenAI.

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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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Public schools in Texas banned cellphones. One district has already seen 200,000 more library books checked out

Library book checkouts at one Texas school district jumped nearly 25% just months after a cellphone ban—but for many Gen Z and Gen Alpha students,...

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns a ‘great’ meeting is usually a bad one—here’s how he ends them instead

The leader of the U.S.’s largest bank says meetings should always end with clear action items—otherwise, they were probably a waste of time.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Jensen Huang went from washing dishes at Denny's to building the world’s most valuable company—now he says the field he studied in college will be...

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Justin Trudeau warns AI boom could create hundreds of trillionaires—and it will mean there’s something ‘fundamentally wrong with the world’

The former Canadian prime minister warns that as AI accelerates efficiency, it could disproportionately accrue to the top 1%.

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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list

Sorry, Gen Z: AI is expected to soon reshape dozens of popular professions—and possibly make some tasks obsolete.

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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne—whose stake would be worth up to $400 billion had he not sold it in 1976—says that at 91, he has no regrets

Ronald Wayne helped Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create Apple—but sold out just 12 days in. He never became a billionaire, but tells Fortune he has...

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