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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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...

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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.

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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.’

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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.

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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.

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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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