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This CEO was bedridden 16 hours a day. She turned her own misdiagnosis into a self-funded, multimillion-dollar thyroid clinic

McCall McPherson established Modern Thyroid Clinic to help millions of women who go under-treated for thyroid conditions.

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A Nobel economist challenged Elon Musk to donate his entire $1T fortune by 2036. Musk’s reply: ‘I am actually going to do something along these lines’

Musk has historically been apprehensive about philanthropy, so his Monday statement would be a major change for billionaire and trillionaire giving as...

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Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans

The bigger spender wins up to 90% of the time. But strategists on both sides say money follows winners more than it makes them.

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Jeff Bezos says being lazy, not working hard, is the root of anxiety: ‘The stress goes away the second I take that first step’

Bezos worked through decades of stress to build the No. 1 Fortune 500 company.

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A Hims cofounder fired his entire marketing team for AI. Now his 24/7 online vet service is growing 20% a month

Joe Spector helped build a multibillion-dollar telehealth company. Now he’s on to own remote vet services.

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This CEO once bought a bankrupt furniture company for $80,000. At 95, he’s now given away millions

Jake Jabs turned a failing furniture store into an 18-location empire. Now the Colorado retailer is funneling his fortune back into the communities...

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Jensen Huang made his $172 billion fortune on AI chips. His family’s $75 million gift to Vanderbilt argues art decides what technology is for

The $75 million gift to establish an art, architecture and design college is the largest Huang has ever made to a university.

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Warren Buffett called Bill Gates’ Epstein ties ‘distasteful’ and pulled out of the Gates Foundation. Days later, a review revealed 30 meetings

The Gates Foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein about 30 times, an external review found, even as staff raised concerns.

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George Soros never signed the Giving Pledge. He’s given away more of his fortune than the billionaires who did

The 95-year-old investor has given away an estimated 76% of his fortune without ever making the promise.

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‘I want to die broke’: Billionaire philanthropist Denny Sanford dies after giving away $4 billion

The credit card magnate turned mega-donor built one of the country's largest rural health systems.

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Retirees wait for the day they can sell their homes and cash in—but there’s a secret Medicare ‘trap’ that could stop them in their tracks

Selling your home near retirement age can trigger a Medicare premium surcharge that costs thousands a year—and most retirees don't find out until...

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Backed by Daymond John and Post Malone, this Afghan-born founder built a $150M brand. Her real mission: the women back home

Durana Elmi left Afghanistan as an infant. Decades later, the perspective she gained from afar shapes every call she makes at her supplement brand,...

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Jensen Huang’s signature black leather jacket just sold at Sotheby’s for nearly $1 million—and the money is going to young tech builders

The Nvidia CEO's Tom Ford jacket, photomatched to a 2023 Taipei appearance, carried a $40,000-$60,000 estimate.

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The MacKenzie Scott paradox: How a bull market lets billionaires give away tens of billions without getting poorer

MacKenzie Scott has donated $26 billion, but is still worth more than $35 billion.

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Ramp’s billionaire CEO ignores résumés and Ivy League degrees—he’s more interested in engineers who built Minecraft servers as teens

Eric Glyman looks for "proof of work" over pedigree, an approach that echoes how Elon Musk staffs SpaceX and Tesla.

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Meta’s AI data center cost went from $10 billion to $50 billion in under 2 years—and split the town in two

The Hyperion supercluster has quintupled in cost since 2024. Meta says it's covering its own power costs, but critics warn locals could pay anyway.

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A Trump Account could make your kid a millionaire by 45—but financial experts say the app’s projections come with a catch

Four financial planners break down how much your kid could really make, where it fits with your 401(k), and the catch parents keep missing.

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‘I have a chip on my shoulder.’ Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup Phia to succeed with ‘no ties to my privilege or my last name’

The daughter of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates acknowledges her privilege, but says she’s building her own thing without their help.

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A 12-person PR firm represents De Niro, Pacino, and billion-dollar clients. Its founder says the secret is staying small

The RMG founder's default answer to any prospective client is 'no.' It's helped him grow revenue more than fivefold in five years without staffing up.

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The billionaires’ ‘summer camp’ that media moguls built is now run by the tech titans trying to replace them

Allen & Co.'s secretive Idaho retreat built its name on media mega-deals. The 2026 guest list shows who holds the power now.

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Billionaire John Arnold has already donated nearly half his wealth. Now he’s funding a hunt for the health risks of sports betting.

The foundation John Arnold runs with his wife, Laura, is funding 12 university studies on how online sports betting affects users' finances, mental...

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Mark Zuckerberg takes business calls on a jet ski wearing his $800 Meta glasses—and insists ‘the other person could not tell’

Zuckerberg is convinced smart glasses will replace the smartphone—and he's spending billions to prove it, even as Reality Labs posts a $19.2 billion...

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Costco CEO promises the $1.50 hot dog isn’t going away: ‘The price will not change as long as I’m around’

The $1.50 combo hasn't changed since 1985. In a K-shaped economy where everything costs more, that's not just a deal—it's a statement.

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Most cancer philanthropy funds research. This winery cofounder is paying for the caregivers and chair lifts families can’t afford

After her husband's glioblastoma diagnosis, Kim Busch returned to the all-female California winery she'd walked away from and turned it into a fund...

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Warren Buffett breaks from a ‘lifetime’ pledge to the Gates Foundation as the Epstein fallout deepens

Warren Buffett, 95, just paused his billion-dollar Gates Foundation donation over its Epstein review.

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Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: ‘sadly,’ it makes the world a worse place

Musk has offered thoughts on philanthropy: "It’s very easy to give money away to get the appearance of goodness" but it's very difficult to get...

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Stop blaming Gen Z for resisting RTO: 71% say they want a hybrid balance—and now they’re quietly leading the office comeback

Gen Z workers actually want to be in the office—just not five days a week. They're showing up voluntarily more than any generation.

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The 30-year fixed mortgage was supposed to be predictable. Two costs quietly broke that promise

A new survey shows 40% of homeowners said they’ve considered moving because their property taxes have gotten so high.

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Larry Ellison quietly gave $45 million to a pro-Trump group—then Oracle landed a starring role in a $500 billion AI buildout

While Big Tech's biggest names have publicly courted President Donald Trump, Oracle's billionaire cofounder took a quieter route—one that has...

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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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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO turned a Discord server into a talent pipeline to build his $60 billion SpaceX-backed AI company

Cursor CEO Michael Truell hired many of his employees straight out of a Discord server.

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Texas and Charlotte used to build huge McMansions—now they’re copying the California design tricks they once mocked

The American Dream is getting smaller and more expensive than ever for homebuyers.

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A pet emergency can cost $8,000. For millions of Americans, that bill is now a ‘life and death’ decision

As emergency vet bills climb into the thousands, more Americans are making care decisions based on their bank balance—and turning to crowdfunding to...

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Former U.S. Secret Service agent says bringing your authentic self to work stifles teamwork: ‘You don’t get high performers, you get sloppiness’

“Could you imagine if I brought my authentic New York self to every interrogation I did?” asked former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras.

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Jeff Bezos pledged $10 billion for climate change. With the 2030 clock ticking, his wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, is leading the charge to spend it

The Bezos Earth Fund has disbursed about $2.4 billion so far. With less than four years left to deploy the rest, the couple’s philanthropy is...

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Kevin O’Leary slams work-life balance, saying it’s complete nonsense and founders should work ’25 hours a day, 8 days a week’

The Shark Tank star, who sold his startup to Mattel for $4.2 billion, told Harvard Business School's The Founder Mindset podcast there's "no balance"...

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The new problem for millennial parents in the Northeast: the million-dollar starter home

The first rung onto the property ladder now costs seven figures in a record 242 cities, a new Zillow report shows.

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A ChatGPT prompt almost killed Ryan Serhant’s $50 million NYC penthouse deal. Here’s how he saved it

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech, broker Ryan Serhant explained how a chatbot nearly blew up a $50 million NYC penthouse sale—and why he says AI still...

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Michelle Obama clarifies her famous ‘Go high’ motto: It’s not about anger or pain, but more about putting a safety lock on a gun

Nearly a decade after "when they go low, we go high" went viral, the former first lady says leadership is "like a gun": "Learn how to use it, put the...

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A 1% mistake costs $10 billion: Inside the impossible math of managing Elon Musk’s trillionaire SpaceX wealth

SpaceX's record IPO made Musk a trillionaire—and created a wealth-management challenge no advisor has ever faced.

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Gen Z fled San Francisco for Texas and Florida. Now they’re turning ‘welcomer cities’ into the next big tech towns

The next wave of the migration story is already underway, and it’s moving the innovation economy into unexpected territory.

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Stranded on a Denver tarmac, Booking.com’s CEO envisions the AI that should have rerouted him to Aspen before takeoff

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel described the AI travel agent he wants to build, while Ryan Serhant shared...

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Stephen Schwarzman’s grandfather inspired the Blackstone billionaire’s philanthropy: It was ‘his privilege to help others in need’

Blackstone billionaire Stephen Schwarzman has given over $1 billion to charity. He credits his grandfather—and now plans a top-10 AI-focused...

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Jeff Bezos commits himself to make ‘three good decisions a day,’ inspired by Warren Buffett’s philosophy of making smart choices

"As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions," the Amazon founder said.

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High-earning millennials and Gen Zers feel broke and conflicted: ‘I make a good salary, I shouldn’t be struggling this much’

Just 16% of U.S. adults say they feel financially fulfilled, and experts say the anxiety gripping everyone else often has little to do with what's...

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Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used mortgages to buy multimillion-dollar mansions. Here’s why that’s a savvy financial decision

Even the world’s richest people borrow money to buy homes. Financial experts say mortgages can actually be a strategic wealth move for the ultrarich.

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MacKenzie Scott’s approach to her $26 billion giving spree was inspired by a book she read in college about writing

Scott signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and has since given away 46% of her net worth.

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Women run a record 11.2% of Fortune 500 companies in 2026—but the gain came in a year of high-profile exits

Internal promotions and outside hires helped the Fortune 500 notch more women CEOs.

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Mark Cuban put $500K into a stranger’s rocket company over email. It’s now a SpaceX competitor worth $4 billion

The billionaire entrepreneur has a pattern of investing in things and people he hasn’t seen before.

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He sent out 3,200 résumés and got zero job offers in the 2008 crash. Now Outdoor Boys’ Luke Nichols is telling grads how he survived

The Outdoor Boys star survived the 2008 crash by out-saving his more credentialed peers. Now he's telling younger generations to do the same.

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