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Apple’s next CEO will oversee a $4 trillion tech giant, but isn’t on LinkedIn. Can today’s leaders still skip social media?

The CEO job now comes with a second role: content creator. Not every executive is on board.

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Tesla cofounder JB Straubel’s first pitch to Elon Musk failed. Then he turned his ‘hobby’ into a $1.3 trillion success

JB Straubel was the architect of Tesla’s core tech, but his first pitch to Elon Musk fell flat.

24.06.2026 20

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff turned his earnings call into a vodcast. Why other Fortune 500 CEOs might follow

The stodgy earnings call is morphing into a new kind of corporate performance, designed to be watched, clipped, and shared.

06.05.2026 30

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Meet Blackstone’s ‘accidental influencer’ who made LinkedIn jogs Wall Street’s must‑watch content

Blackstone COO Jon Gray is jogging his way to internet virality, and other C-suite executives are taking notes.

21.04.2026 30

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Jack Schlossberg says his grandfather JFK would be ‘alarmed’ by how far America has fallen on the world stage

“I think he would be shocked at how far we have fallen in terms of setting the standard for the rest of the world to follow on human rights,...

20.03.2026 30

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McDonald’s CEO did a burger taste test that became a cautionary tale for execs. But there’s a silver lining

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski’s taste test turned into a viral meme war that shows how risky the CEO-influencer model has become.

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CEO of $22.5 billion Ramp calls advisors like OpenAI’s Fidji Simo and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella when he needs business advice

Eric Glyman’s six-year-old startup just notched $1 billion in annualized revenue.

18.09.2025 20

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Rachel Ventresca