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Gen Z can retire as millionaires, ‘Shark Tank’ star Rashaun Williams says—they just need to quit doom spending and follow his 3 tips

Gen Z is watching boomers unretire and doom spending their money in despair—but seven-figure wealth is entirely achievable, the multimillionaire...

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Union Pacific’s CEO started as a teen track worker—now he’s leading an $130 billion empire and says Gen Z interns need curiosity to be like him

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena has climbed the railroad ranks since he was a teenager making mere dollars to maintain tracks to millions in the c-suite....

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Google CEO is the newest billionaire: He tells Gen Z the secret to success is putting yourself in uncomfortable situations

As a newly minted billionaire, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that embracing discomfort is key to personal and professional growth.

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Denny’s CEO asks potential hires these questions at the interview—if they can’t answer, it’s an immediate red flag

Kelli Valade wants to make sure all her new hires understand their weaknesses and have done their homework.

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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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When running AI giant OpenAI becomes too overwhelming Sam Altman turns to pen and paper—it’s a habit shared by Bill Gates and Richard Branson

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he still doesn't let ChatGPT do all his writing—instead he picks up a special pen and paper to navigate challenges.

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Multimillionaire ‘The Office’ star still worked part-time at a theatre box office and drove a Honda while filming season two of the sitcom

Angela Kinsey may be a millionaire today, but the actress worked two jobs during the early years of “The Office” and drove a Honda to work.

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Gen Z men with college degrees now have the same unemployment rate as non-grads—a sign that the higher education payoff is dead

Gen Z is increasingly slamming their degrees as useless, and new research indicates there may be some truth when it comes to the job hunt.

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Nvidia CEO’s always-on 7-day grind is going viral—he can’t even sit through a movie without thinking about his $4.2 trillion tech giant

Nvidia’s boss Jensen Huang says his brain is permanently on the clock: ‘When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working.'

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87-year-old chairman’s secret to success is always being on time, warning Gen Z ‘if you’re one minute late, it’s the same as being an hour late’

Gen Z workers think showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as being on time—but baby boomer bosses have zero tolerance for tardiness,...

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Like Mark Cuban and Barack Obama, this founder says work–life balance doesn’t exist for the successful: ‘Even if I am on vacation, you’re on 24 hours a day’

Even after successfully building a multi-million dollar business, the CEO of That’s It Nutrition still grinds all hours of the day: ‘Even if I am...

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Shark Tank star Daniel Lubetzky says college is not the ‘end all, be all’—he tells Gen Z to learn how to be a carpenter or a mechanic instead

Despite finding success selling his snack company KIND to Mars in 2020 for $5 billion, Lubetzky says young people could make a killing going down the...

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CEO of $14 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 co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, uses it as fuel.

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Goldman Sachs doesn’t have to hire a $180,000 software engineer—meet Devin, its new AI-powered worker

Goldman is ushering in a ‘hybrid workforce’ era where humans and AI coexist. Its newest autonomous employee, Devin, joins the nearly 12,000...

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Gen Z men are still obsessed with Pokémon cards—using ‘boy math’ to argue that they’ll beat Nvidia stock and the S&P 500. But there’s a catch

Pokémon and sports cards may be outpacing the stock market on paper, but while some collectors are cashing in—others are going broke.

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As tech CEOs predict AI will replace humans in just 5 years, this Fortune 500 boss says taking the focus off real people is a ‘recipe for failure’ 

As tech giants lay off thousands of workers to make way for AI, the CEO of the $8 billion food giant, Ingredion, says the secret for success remains...

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Tech CEO slams college entrepreneurship programs for ‘teaching you to lie’—he warns Gen Z that ‘faking it till you make it’ could land them in jail

Y Combinator boss Garry Tan warns against the “dangerous” embrace of Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes by some education programs.

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Roger Federer is now a billionaire, but he’s made more money investing in this one company than winning 20 Grand Slams

The $1.3 billion tennis star may have netted millions by winning tournaments, but it's his clever investments, like in the shoe company On, that have...

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Lowe’s CEO warns young workers to stay away from the corner office: ‘AI isn’t going to fix a hole in your roof’

The home-improvement retail executive has a reminder for Gen Z: Human-facing jobs are not on the AI chopping block.

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Chef Boyardee’s founder sold the brand for $6 million in 1946—Conagra has just sold it for $600 million to a private equity firm

Chef Boyardee just sold for $600 million—its founder was an Italian immigrant who was living the American Dream at 17 years old.

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This CEO went from folding clothes at Nordstrom to being Jeff Bezos’ right hand man—the billionaire told him to delegate to his employees more

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos taught Coursera’s new chief executive Greg Hart the fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the better.

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Bosses are catching on to their ‘overemployed’ staff—one worker says they’re making $3k a day doing 5 jobs

After a tech entrepreneur discovered he might have been duped by someone trying to work at four startups at once, overworking has caught the eyes of...

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14-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky encourages Gen Z grads to set goals—but don’t always expect to achieve them: ‘You don’t have to win the race’

The world-record-holding swimming star warned Gen Z grads that focusing too much on beating others can actually backfire.

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Mastering AI at work: a practical guide to using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more

If you want to avoid being the latest casualty of the AI innovation wave, it’s critical to learn how to effectively prompt in the workplace.

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Bolt’s millennial founder has just ‘killed’ its unlimited PTO perk because it was actually causing burnout

After getting rid of its HR department, the millennial boss of Bolt is now capping vacations because the ‘bad ones’ were taking too much time off.

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90% of HR leaders are looking to hire outside of traditional college degrees as they prioritize skills

“This is not about replacing degrees—it’s about balancing them with real, demonstrable skills.”

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This Gen X CEO has only worked at one company for 35 years—she says job-hopping Gen Z are not putting enough energy and time into their current gigs

Staying curious—and not worrying about what’s coming in 10 years—has been part of ACT CEO Janet Godwin’s secret for success.

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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976—today it’d be worth up to $300 billion

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are often known as the brains behind the $3 trillion tech giant, Apple, but the company’s original third cofounder sold...

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Gen Z is facing a job-market bloodbath—but JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says employers are still chasing students who studied these fields

The billionaire JPMorgan Chase CEO isn’t wrong about the value of studying computer science—research shows that it can increase earnings by 8%.

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This millennial was rejected from 200 jobs—now he makes millions charging wealthy families six-figures to get their kids into the Ivy Leagues

Meet the millennial admissions consultant charging up to $750,000 to help students get into Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI can rival someone with a PhD—just weeks after saying it’s ready for entry-level jobs. So what’s left for grads?

As Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic bosses warn, entry-level corporate jobs are about to get cut, experts say Gen Z don’t need to panic—yet.

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Reid Hoffman says consoling Gen Z in the AI bloodbath is like putting a ‘Band-Aid on a bullet wound’—he shares 4 skills college grads need to survive

The billionaire tech founder tells Gen Z the secret to surviving the AI job bloodbath isn’t mastering prompts—but rather leaning on the human...

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Mark Cuban says work-life balance is a luxury ambitious people can’t afford because ‘there’s someone out there working 24/7 to kick your ass’

Hustle culture is alive and strong, according to the billionaire. For those serious about finding success, “there is no balance,” Cuban says.

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The CEOs of Starbucks and Chipotle hit the gym together each morning—they bounce ideas off each other at 5 a.m. between sets

The newest coffee or burrito innovation might not be spun out of the boardroom—but rather the weight room. Brian Niccol and Scott Boatwright spot...

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Zoom’s CEO says work-life balance doesn’t exist: ‘work is life, life is work’ — but there’s one exception

The billionaire tech executive admits he’s even given up hobbies to focus on work—but he predicts there may be some relief in sight with a two-day...

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OpenAI chairman reveals the rocket ship mantra from Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt that has inspired his career

The tech executive’s held top roles at OpenAI, Salesforce, and Twitter. Learning to embrace opportunity among tough situations—like dealing with...

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Databricks CEO met his founding team during college—he tells Gen Z not to give up on higher education even if employers have

Forget dropping out: These founders say college connections were key to building a $62 billion company.

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Chipotle CEO says they will open a new restaurant almost every 24 hours this year, thanks to AI

Chipotle has plans to operate 7,000 locations in North America.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shares the No. 1 career mistake Gen Z is making in their 20s that’s easily avoidable

Before running a trillion-dollar company, Jassy coached soccer, worked retail, and dabbled in sportscasting—a lesson he says Gen Z should take on...

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Trivago watched its revenue forecast plummet from $1 billion to nearly zero—so the company tapped a set of former interns to turn it around

Trivago’s CEO, CFO, and CMO were all once interns. Now, they’re trying to bring billions in revenue to the company.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is ready for entry-level jobs—but unbothered Gen Z have made it their new work friend

AI can already do work equivalent to that of a junior employee, ChatGPT’s Sam Altman says. But Gen Z remains unbothered—they’re already...

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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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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says his dad did him ‘a service’ by never complimenting him—it’s a lesson he’s kept while building the $82 billion giant

The billionaire founder wasn’t deterred by tough love—like billionaire founders Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, he used it as a motivator for success...

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Jimmy Fallon dropped out of college in his last semester—he then lived on $7 a day and had cardboard furniture before landing stardom on SNL

No degree, no furniture, no food—just stage time. Jimmy Fallon just revealed the grit behind his path to multimillionaire TV host.

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Gen Z men studying an MBA will see a 75% salary bump—that’s 25% more than women with the same qualification

Male MBA graduates make $36,000 more than their female counterparts and the disparity begins with their first job out of school.

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This CEO went from bagging groceries at Publix to founding a $3.4 billion cyber company—with little tech background 

After taking a second mortgage and maxing out credit cards, Brian Murphy has turned ReliaQuest from near failure into a $3.4 billion enterprise...

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Nvidia CEO reveals the person who will replace you thanks to AI—he warns, ‘every job will be affected, and immediately’

Jensen Huang is bullish about an AI future, but he advises all workers to follow one piece of advice to avoid being the technology’s latest victim.

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Denny’s CEO says she starts any new gig by ‘walking around with a little journal’ and asking staff the same questions

Denny’s boss used to run the ship at Chili’s and Red Lobster—she says she starts every new assignment by asking employees and customers 4 very...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he went to ‘night school’ for an hour every day with Barack Obama and even turned in homework

The billionaire founder admits that a weekly mentorship call with the former president came with assignments like being more intentional with his...

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High school students are totally behind and addicted to their phones—it’s making teachers crazy and driving them to quit

With over 400,000 unfilled teaching roles in the U.S., burnout and low pay are driving educators away from the profession.

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