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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...

23.06.2026 7

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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...

15.06.2026 10

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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...

09.06.2026 10

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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.

08.06.2026 9

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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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