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Melinda French Gates has a 48-hour rule for criticizing employees. The billionaire philanthropist says it’s because ‘being clear is kind’

The billionaire philanthropist’s 48-hour feedback rule is designed to replace anger with honesty, and it eliminates surprises at performance reviews.

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Mark Cuban is worth $10 billion—but in college, he paid for junior year with a dorm-room chain letter he admits was ‘basically a scam’

Cuban, who grew up in a working-class family, says his early hustles laid the groundwork for a career that took him from a crowded Dallas apartment to...

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Susan Dell is the one running the Dells’ $10 billion giving operation—and her biggest bets are on kids, health care, and UT Austin

Michael Dell may be one of the richest men in the world, but his wife Susan is helping decide where billions of their fortune go.

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Jeff Bezos sold his Seattle mansion for a record $63 million before Washington passed a millionaires tax—he now lives in a $237 million Miami compound

He and Lauren Sánchez Bezos now live in a $237 million Miami compound. Washington voters decide Nov. 3 whether to repeal the tax.

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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix

The actress built Hello Sunshine after Hollywood told her there were no female-led movies to make. Five years after a deal valued it at $900 million,...

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Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner did it ‘all at once.’ The foundation made in her honor wants 1,000 leaders to master work, civic life, and philanthropy

Her husband and a former Blackstone colleague say the late executive balanced career, community, and philanthropy, and they want to train others to do...

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Citi CEO Jane Fraser on the next phase of her turnaround: To be the best, Citi has ‘to beat the best’

Five years into Citi’s turnaround, the No. 1 Most Powerful Woman says the heavy lifting is done—and AI will shape what comes next.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom on her legacy as California’s First Partner: Equal pay ‘wasn’t enough,’ so she turned to women’s wealth

At Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Jennifer Siebel Newsom pointed to financial literacy, savings programs, and capital for female founders as...

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Alphabet President Ruth Porat on how Google is funding AI to win long term, and the biggest risks ahead

Google is spending about $200 billion on its AI buildout this year, Porat confirmed at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit on Monday, and the peak is...

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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year

MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025, bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight.

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Meet Aurora: the invite-only, $10,000-a-year AI concierge that anticipates the ultra-wealthy’s every need

Backed by $12 million from VCs and family offices, Aurora pairs AI with human tastemakers to manage members’ health, travel, and dining.

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Gwynne Shotwell’s $300 million SpaceX pledge to Trump Accounts shows billionaires a tax-smart way to give away their own company’s stock

New Treasury rules let the ultrawealthy send shares of their own companies to millions of kids, as long as the gift goes through a charity.

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The ultrawealthy are buying nearby homes to keep staff close—and Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg are two examples

Ellison spent nearly $10 million on homes for his staff near his Florida estate, while Zuckerberg has spent more than $110 million buying up his Palo...

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A $13 billion property mogul is the latest to flee Britain’s new taxes for Monaco, a warning sign as California votes on a billionaire tax

David Reuben's move to Monaco follows a wave of departures since the U.K. scrapped its non-dom regime—and offers a preview of the fight California...

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Brands are fleeing TV for social. The agency behind 50 Cent’s and Alix Earle’s viral Super Bowl-week ads just sold for at least $100 million

Exclusive: Get Engaged becomes a part of SAMY, a global social-first marketing company.

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Wealthy boomers doubt their heirs will keep giving as $124 trillion changes hands, BofA finds. The data shows a different reality

Younger donors give to more causes than their parents—but only 47% of the wealthy think they're ready.

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Warren Buffett’s first tax bill at age 14 was $7. Now Berkshire Hathaway’s is almost $27 billion—and he still says the rich don’t pay enough

That’s a far cry from the $26.8 billion Buffett said his company, Berkshire Hathaway, paid in 2024 taxes.

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MacKenzie Scott’s first novel in 13 years is being called ‘baffling’—and critics are left asking what message she’s trying to send

The billionaire philanthropist who’s donated $26 billion gave away Last Days in Two Nations for free on Substack, noticeably not on Amazon.

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Trump says Biden overcharged Obamacare customers. Now almost 1 million of them are getting $500 checks—here’s who qualifies

The Treasury Department has started mailing one-time $500 payments to HealthCare.gov customers in 30 states who paid full price for 2026 coverage.

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Billion-dollar tech company Starkey unveils its newest hearing aid with AI accessible for all generations—solidifying the ear is ‘the new wrist’

The Omega AI model builds on Starkey’s mission to make their hearing aids more of a lifestyle device.

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Ken Griffin doubles down on Miami with a record $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon—and plans for a campus in the city Citadel now calls home

The Citadel founder, who moved his firm from Chicago to Miami in 2022, is bankrolling a Wynwood campus that will organize learning around societal...

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Jeff Bezos is giving $25 million to protect the Pacific—but his climate fund still has about $7 billion left to spend in four years

Lauren Sánchez Bezos is leading the couple’s Bezos Earth Fund, which has granted only about $2.4 billion of their $10 billion climate pledge by 2030.

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Billionaire oil tycoon Harold Hamm donates $150M to the University of Oklahoma to help study a cause that’s personal to him: diabetes

The gift is the largest in OU's history, and it arrives as Oklahoma ranks near the bottom nationally for health system performance.

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Baby boomers are setting up a showdown with millennials, aging in place and plunking down hundreds of thousands on renovating their homes

Millennials need homes, but because of high home prices and mortgage rates, baby boomers have little reason to sell.

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With no heirs to leave it to, this billionaire is pouring his fortune into a Texas ghost town of about 25 people

John Poindexter, the 81-year-old founder of truck-body maker J.B. Poindexter & Co., wants to turn Shafter, Texas, into a living history museum.

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Brené Brown says the key to surviving AI is rejecting Jack Welch’s advice and embracing humanity. The problem is humans ‘can’t stand each other’

Treating our humanity like a liability could mean ignoring our greatest superpower, Brown said.

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Alice Walton got $33 billion richer last year without running a company. She’s building a tuition-free medical school instead

The Walmart heiress has never run the retailer. She's spending her fortune on Arkansas health care, from a tuition-free medical school to a new $350...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says this one uncomfortable habit gets young workers ahead—and helped build his $1.6 billion fortune

Pichai has been with Google for more than two decades.

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Billionaire Nike cofounder Phil Knight gives $1 billion to his alma mater: ‘This is no time to abandon’ higher education

Phil and Penny Knight are funding a new engineering college at the University of Oregon, the largest known gift to a U.S. public flagship university.

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Warren Buffett’s son worked on a farm instead of going to college—he’s now the chairman of $1 trillion Berkshire Hathaway

Before becoming chairman of his father's trillion-dollar company, Howard Buffett was a college dropout who taught himself to farm.

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Meet the wealth manager who built a $38 billion firm and gave $100 million to the MBA program that launched him

Jeff and Cheryl Thomasson donate $100 million to Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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‘Stealth wealth’ is reshaping luxury real estate: How the ultrarich buy multimillion-dollar mansions off the books

The ultrawealthy now treat visibility as a liability and they're paying to disappear from luxury real estate records.

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The Gates Foundation is spending $400 million on AI in schools. Teachers warn it could ‘end up widening’ the divide it’s meant to close

“AI can support teacher expertise, but it cannot replace it,” one educator told Fortune.

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Ryan Serhant says the American city isn’t dying—wealth is ‘multiplying,’ and buyers are flocking to Ohio, Alabama, and the Carolinas

The Owning Manhattan star says the wealthy are diversifying into cheaper, less obvious markets.

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Billionaires are flocking to these 3 Florida localities—here’s how much they save in taxes

Florida's lack of a state income tax and wealth tax is pulling the ultrawealthy to three localities in particular.

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Walmart heirs Olivia and Tom Walton are committing $100 million to America’s maternal death crisis—and betting states and donors will pour in more

The couple is treating it as seed money, hoping states and other donors will multiply it to tackle the maternal mortality crisis.

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Miami is the luxury capital for the rich fleeing New York and LA—now a $100M office has infrared saunas, a stem cell clinic, and a Vegas-style valet

Robert Rivani bet against a cratering office market with a $100 million Miami Beach redevelopment—and says it was 90% leased before the doors opened.

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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix

The actress built Hello Sunshine after Hollywood told her there were no female-led movies to make. Six years later, she sold it for $900 million.

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Inside the Bahamas island quietly selling $18 million villas—where the vast majority of the land will never be developed

The owners of Highbourne Cay turned down a luxury brand's resort pitch. They're betting that scarcity is worth more than density.

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Billionaire Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says most charities are ‘net negative’—and that he has no plans to make his own foundation

The crypto billionaire says he has a donor-advised fund but no plans to start a foundation, joining Elon Musk in casting doubt on traditional giving.

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Tennessee linebacker Arion Carter was suspended over a $427 flight—now he’s donating that amount to charity for every tackle he makes this season

Carter's girlfriend, Mariah Bryant, is nearing the end of treatment for stage 2 breast cancer.

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Kevin O’Leary says if you earn $68,000 a year and follow this rule, you’ll retire a millionaire

The Shark Tank star’s advice is simple—but does the math actually hold up?

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Mark Cuban bought a $25 million mansion sight unseen—and got it for 50% off. His secret? ‘The best guaranteed return on investment’

Cuban dropped millions on a mansion he’d never set foot in, but has zero regrets. The deal captures how billionaires think differently about money.

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Dolly Parton once turned down a song request from Elvis Presley. That was just one business decision that helped build her $650 million empire

Parton established her own publishing company in 1966, which helped her hold on to nearly all of her publishing rights.

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Scammers are hijacking tap-to-pay donations to turn a $20 gift into a $2,000 charge—here’s how to protect your money

As tap-to-pay makes street donations effortless, fraudsters are quietly inflating charges.

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Political powerbroker George Norcross is giving $100 million to the hospital where he was born—which will now carry his name

The New Jersey Democratic kingmaker's gift to Cooper University Health Care is the system's largest ever.

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North Carolina teachers spend an average of $1,632 of their own money on school supplies—a foundation just gave $2M so they won’t have to

Exponential Scholars, a new North Carolina nonprofit founded by "quiet philanthropist" Holly May, funded more than 3,200 DonorsChoose projects at...

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Dolly Parton’s philanthropy inspiration was her father who couldn’t read or write: ‘I saw how crippling that could be’

Dolly Parton used her $450 million net worth to do good.

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Jamie Dimon and his wife, Judith, donate $12 million to 12 HBCUs—betting they’re the ‘springboard to success’ for the next generation

The James and Judith K. Dimon Foundation's gift to 12 UNCF schools comes as HBCUs brace for a federal pullback.

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A $1,000 loan kept MacKenzie Scott in college—now the billionaire philanthropist is giving away her $37 billion fortune to repay it forward

MacKenzie Scott has donated $26 billion in the past several years.

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