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The founders who cashed out on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram—and missed out on becoming today’s billionaires

YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram may be household names, but their founders could have made billions more by waiting to cash out.

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Klarna’s cofounder worked at Burger King and lived on food stamps before starting the buy-now, pay-later firm. It’s now worth $16 billion after IPO

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski worked at Burger King and lived on welfare before starting his $16 billion fintech firm.

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Not just Larry Ellison got a huge payday this week—Oracle’s CEO is worth over $3.4 billion after stock surge

Not just Larry Ellison got a huge payday this week—Oracle’s CEO is worth over $3.4 billion after the company's stock surged by over 30%.

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Film director Spike Lee and Michelle Obama slam overnight success as a lie—and that anyone selling it is hiding a ‘dark’ backstory

Obama and the award-winning filmmaker have stark advice for Gen Z: stop chasing ‘overnight success’ shortcuts because they’re not real.

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Workday’s 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 $62 billion HR tech CEO, attitude could be holding them back.

09.09.2025 10

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This podcaster went from a top insurance salesman to #1 on Apple Podcasts making $7 million a year. He tells Gen Z they just need a phone to copy him

Mick Hunt seemingly became a millionaire podcaster overnight—but it started with a career of hard work and figuring out his “Because.”

06.09.2025 10

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sent research reports on Sundays to SoundHound’s CEO for feedback—an unusual ritual that helped grow the $5 billion AI firm

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang became an unlikely mentor to SoundHound’s Keyvan Mojajer—helping transform a dorm room idea into a $5 billion AI company.

06.09.2025 20

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Brooks CEO Dan Sheridan leads his company with a Charlie Munger-inspired mantra: low arrogance and a bureaucracy allergy

Brooks CEO Dan Sheridan does all he can to avoid the ABCs—or what Warren Buffett calls “corporate cancers”: arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.

04.09.2025 7

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New Nestlé CEO joined the company straight out of college—like Mary Barra and Doug McMillon, he climbed all the way to the top at a single company

Philipp Navratil joins Fortune 500 leaders in proving that playing the long game up the same corporate ladder can pay off.

04.09.2025 10

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’

The leader of the $3.7 trillion tech giant reveals the top prompts he uses on GPT-5 to help maintain productivity with meetings, projects, and more.

03.09.2025 9

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Don’t worry about the job market on Earth, Gen Z: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say you’ll be working in space soon

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.

01.09.2025 20

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As CEOs predict AI will rival humans in 5 years, Shark Tank’s Daniel Lubetzky tells Gen Z to get off TikTok and study Greek philosophers to get ahead

The billionaire warns Gen Z doomscrolling on TikTok is setting them up for failure; instead, he suggests picking up the writings of Plato, Socrates,...

29.08.2025 20

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet says there’s one thing you should never do if you get offered a big job you don’t feel ready for

Having the confidence to say “yes” to a stretch role can open doors you never expected to be unlocked, just like Accenture CEO Julie Sweet.

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Unlike Jensen Huang, this CEO embraces work-life balance and is proud he takes vacations and coached his kids’ baseball team

With millions of PTO left on the table each year, Lactalis U.S. Yogurt CEO Bill Cassidy argues normalizing time off is a competitive advantage—not a...

23.08.2025 10

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Gen Z want ‘secure’ jobs in healthcare—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit

A medical school grad walked away from a secure path in healthcare to build a $100 million snack company—now he hires without even looking at degrees.

22.08.2025 3

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Steve Jobs didn’t actually become a billionaire thanks to leading Apple—but rather from his work with a film company he bought off George Lucas

Steve Jobs’ $10 million bet on Pixar turned him into a billionaire, long before the introduction of the iPhone.

22.08.2025 5

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Billionaire Epic CEO Judy Faulkner built her $5.7 billion-a-year software firm in a basement. She says not getting an MBA was a ‘really good thing’

As Gen Z questions the values of degrees, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner has never been a fan of MBAs—and built a billion-dollar business without one.

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CEO of the Warren Buffett-backed venture Brooks says the top job drives him ‘nuts’ 20% of the time—but one mindset mantra keeps him sane

Like Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, keeping a positive attitude helps the Warren Buffett-backed leader stay motivated toward success.

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Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation

“Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete,” the former Google AI leader told Fortune.

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SoundHound’s millionaire boss founded 3 software startups before even graduating—he tells Gen Z who want to be their own boss ‘throw darts randomly’

SoundHound AI CEO Keyvan Mohajer grew his Stanford dorm room start-up into a $6.5 billion company, fueled by a refusal to just be “average.”

16.08.2025 10

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Even AMD’s CEO agrees that technology is overwhelming right now—but she slams the idea that AI will ever be smarter than people

As AI wipes the job market for Gen Z, AMD CEO Lisa Su insists she’s still hiring at the $300 billion semiconductor company—and believes humanity...

14.08.2025 10

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As degrees get branded worthless, LinkedIn’s just revealed the universities that give Gen Z the best shot at corner office jobs

Move over Harvard and Columbia, Princeton and Duke are the schools most likely to fast-track Gen Z to the C-suite.

13.08.2025 3

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Despite growing up as ‘screenagers,’ Gen Z enjoys working behind a screen from home full-time less than any other generation

Gen Z and JPMorgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon have one thing in common—neither are fans of fully remote work

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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space

While Bill Gates has said the 2-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too...

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Multimillionaire Rashaun Williams landed a seat next to Mark Cuban on ‘Shark Tank’ by sneaking into events he wasn’t invited to and saying ‘here me out’

The venture capitalist admits his secret for success hasn’t always been following the norms—but rather manifesting his dreams.

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142,000 millionaires are uprooting in 2025—forget Switzerland, they’re flocking to this eastern European nation

The ultra-rich are fleeing once hotspots of wealth like London and Paris in favor of Montenegro, the world’s fastest-growing millionaire hub.

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Palantir CEO says working at his $430 billion software company is better than a degree from Harvard or Yale: ‘No one cares about the other stuff’

Sorry, Apple, Google, and OpenAI, Palantir’s billionaire boss Alex Karp says a job at his AI firm is the ‘best credential in tech.’

07.08.2025 10

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Palantir’s stock surge has made the firm’s 5th billionaire—its CTO just joined the ultra-wealthy club with over $1.3 billion net worth

Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp is competing with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for who can create the most billionaires on their team.

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Figma’s CEO is now worth $5 billion after IPO—like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates, he’s another college-dropout billionaire

As Gen Z questions the value of higher education, Figma CEO Dylan Field is the latest tech billionaire to make it big without a college degree.

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Tesla’s poor stock performance has slashed Elon Musk’s wealth by $80 billion—another tumble like that could dethrone the world’s richest man

If the Tesla billionaire’s wealth drops by another $60 billion, he will lose his crown as the richest person on the planet to Oracle’s Larry Ellison.

04.08.2025 10

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Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they’re doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

Holding multiple full-time jobs may sound impossible, but these overemployed remote workers are managing to squeeze in two to three jobs within a...

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Microsoft researchers have revealed the list of the 40 jobs that AI is likely to steal—and not even teachers are safe

Sorry, Gen Z: AI is coming for safe and secure teaching jobs, as well as grad roles.

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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.

22.07.2025 3

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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.'

21.07.2025 10

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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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The founders who cashed out on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram—and missed out on becoming today’s billionaires

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Klarna’s cofounder worked at Burger King and lived on food stamps before starting the buy-now, pay-later firm. It’s now worth $16 billion after IPO

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Not just Larry Ellison got a huge payday this week—Oracle’s CEO is worth over $3.4 billion after stock surge

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

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Brooks CEO Dan Sheridan leads his company with a Charlie Munger-inspired mantra: low arrogance and a bureaucracy allergy

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Steve Jobs didn’t actually become a billionaire thanks to leading Apple—but rather from his work with a film company he bought off George Lucas

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Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation

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SoundHound’s millionaire boss founded 3 software startups before even graduating—he tells Gen Z who want to be their own boss ‘throw darts randomly’

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Even AMD’s CEO agrees that technology is overwhelming right now—but she slams the idea that AI will ever be smarter than people

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As degrees get branded worthless, LinkedIn’s just revealed the universities that give Gen Z the best shot at corner office jobs

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Despite growing up as ‘screenagers,’ Gen Z enjoys working behind a screen from home full-time less than any other generation

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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years’ time college graduates will be working ‘some completely new, exciting, super well-paid’ job in space

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142,000 millionaires are uprooting in 2025—forget Switzerland, they’re flocking to this eastern European nation

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Figma’s CEO is now worth $5 billion after IPO—like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates, he’s another college-dropout billionaire

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Tesla’s poor stock performance has slashed Elon Musk’s wealth by $80 billion—another tumble like that could dethrone the world’s richest man

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Workers are making over $1 million by secretly holding down multiple gigs—and they’re doing it all within the 40-hour workweek

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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

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